“In a small meeting in his office on September 29, 2001, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld asked General [Richard] Myers (just two days away from becoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) to begin preparing military options for Iraq. The Secretary identified two objectives. One of these related to weapons of mass destruction: Rumsfeld asked for a CENTCOM [U.S. Central Command] plan to find the weapons, clean them out and destroy them, and find the people who had manned the WMD programs. The other objective was regime change–and for this task Rumsfeld asked that the options include one that would take only one or two months and 250,000 troops, not necessarily all from the United States.”
– Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 218