Quote of the Day

'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.' And he said, 'My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.' He said, 'If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."

George Bush to Mickey Herskowitz in 1999. "He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999," Herskowitz told Baker. "It was on his mind.

And he's been fixated on it ever since.