Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a press briefing on April 7, 2003. “Asked whether he was supporting [Iraqi National Congress leader] Ahmed Chalabi, or endorsing him for any role in a postwar Iraq, Rumsfeld replied, ‘Of course not. I just said that the Iraqi people are going to make these decisions. Clearly, the United States is not going to impose a government on Iraq.’ “
– Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Pages 176-177