While discussing a response to the 9/11 attacks at Camp David on September 15, 2001, ” ‘There was a long discussion during the day about what place if any Iraq should have in a counterterrorist strategy,’ he [Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz] said later. …’the disagreement was whether it [Iraq] should be in the immediate response or whether you should concentrate simply on Afghanistan first. There was a sort of undertow in that discussion. I think that was, the real issue was whether Iraq should be part of the strategy at all.’ He came away thinking, he said, that the president [Bush] had decided tactically on an Afghanistan first approach but strategically on the objective of ousting governments that supported terrorism.”
– Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, Page 31