Speaking at a GOP fundraiser in Casper, Wyoming, on September 20, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘We now have irrefutable evidence that [Saddam] has once again set up and reconstituted his program to take uranium, to enrich it to sufficiently high grade, so that it will function as the base material as a nuclear weapon. …There’s no doubt about what he’s attempting. And there’s no doubt about the fact that the level of effort has escalated in recent months.’ ”
– Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 247