We know from a long trail of documents, memoirs, and interviews that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a pretext. Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz wanted war with Saddam all through the 1990's, and urged "regime change" as a policy for President Clinton, who wisely rejected such irresponsible advice.
我们从一大堆文件、论文集和采访中知道，911恐怖袭击事件只是一个借口。切尼、拉姆斯菲尔德、沃尔福威茨在整个90年代一直想要发动针对萨达姆的战争，而且迫切希望克林顿把"政权改变"作为一项国策，但克林顿明智地拒绝了这个不负责任的建议。