” ‘If you invade Iraq, you’re going to win the war in two or three weeks and then you’re going to own the place and you’ll never get out of it,’ Dick Armey [R-TX], the House majority leader, told him [President Bush, in a meeting of congressional leaders on September 4, 2002]. ‘It’ll be such a burden on your presidency you’ll never be able to complete your domestic agenda.’ ”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 215