President “Bush fanned the fires tying Saddam to Osama. ‘The danger is, is that al-Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam’s madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world,’ Bush told reporters that day [September 24, 2002]. ‘I can’t distinguish between the two, because they’re both equally as bad, and equally as evil and equally as destructive.’ ”
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 256