Chapter 31: The Case for Regime Change
1. General Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.), with Malcolm McConnell, Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security (New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), p. 215.
2. Lieutenant General William G. Pagonis with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992), pp. 157–58; George C.Wilson, “The Logistics Behind a War on Iraq,” National Journal, vol. 34, issue 47/48, November 23, 2002.
3. Rumsfeld, “Assumptions,” October 18, 2002.
4. “Iraq Tested Missile to Carry A-Bomb, a U.N. Report Says,” New York Times, October 5, 1991.
5. Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, Intelligence Side Letter to Tenet, March 18, 1999.
6. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, August 28, 2002.
7. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, August 28, 2002.
8. Central Intelligence Agency, “Key Judgments,” National Intelligence Estimate: Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, October 2002.
9. James Graff and Bruce Crumley, “France Is Not a Pacifist Country,” Time, February 16, 2003.
10. Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Great Terror,” The New Yorker, March 25, 2002.
12. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Remarks on ABC ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos,’” March 30, 2003.
14. Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107–243), October 16, 2002.
15. Joseph Biden, interviewed by Tim Russert, Meet the Press, NBC News, August 4, 2002.
16. Hillary Rodham Clinton, statement, “Authorization of the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq,” 107th Cong., 2d sess., Congressional Record, vol. 148, no. 133, October 10, 2002, p. S10288.
17. John Kerry, statement, “Authorization of the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq—Continued,” 107th Cong., 2d sess., Congressional Record, vol. 148, no. 132, October 9, 2002, p. S10174.
18. Al Gore, “Iraq and the War on Terrorism,” The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, California, September 23, 2002.
19. General Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier (New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 394.
20. “Powell Says He Made Prewar Push for More Troops,” New York Times, April 30, 2006.
21. Rumsfeld, “Conversation with the President and Condi,” May 15, 2006.
22. “Offers of support for Phase I-III (48 countries),” May 13, 2003.
23. Lindsey Graham, interviewed by Bob Schieffer, Face the Nation, CBS News, August 9, 2009; David Brooks, “Making the Surge Work,” New York Times, January 7, 2007.
24. Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (New York: Free Press, 2002), pp. 185–88.
25. Rumsfeld, “Illustrative List of Recent Examples of French Opposition to the United States,” October 23, 2002.
26. Rumsfeld to Shultz, State Department cable, “Rumsfeld Mission: December 20 Meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein,” December 21, 1983.
27. John Keegan, The Iraq War (NewYork: Vintage, 2005), p. 108.
28. Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-For-Food Programme, The Management of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, vol. 1, September 7, 2005, p. 2.
29. United Nations Security Council, Resolution 1441 (S/Res/1441), 4644th Meeting, November 8, 2002.
30. Barbara Slavin and Bill Nichols, “U.S. Says Omissions Put Iraq in ‘Material Breach,’” USA Today, December 20, 2002.
31. Hans Blix, statement to the United Nations Security Council, January 27, 2003.