“Only a few days after September 11 [2001], [CIA Director George] Tenet writes, a CIA analyst attended a White House meeting where he was told that [President] Bush wanted to remove Saddam. The analyst’s response, according to Tenet: ‘If you want to go after that son of a bitch to settle old scores, be my guest. But don’t tell us he is connected to 9/11 or to terrorism because there is no evidence to support that. You will have to have a better reason.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 106