“On September 4 [2002], [President] Bush invited 18 key Senate and House members to the White House. ‘Iraq is on a lot of people’s minds,’ the president said, ‘because [Saddam] is a serious threat to the United States and his neighbors and his own citizens…Doing nothing is not an option…I expect Congress to be part of any decision.’ “
– Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 169