Here's a quote from Little Monkey from Froomkin's White House Briefing:
Book Watch, Part II
Julian Borger writes in the Guardian: "Hubris, by investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn, adds more weight to a body of evidence that the White House was determined to go to war from early 2002. . . .
"Talking to his spokesman, Ari Fleischer, in May 2002, President Bush made clear his intentions towards Saddam when he said: 'I'm going to kick his sorry ass all over the Mideast,' according to another press aide, Adam Levine, who witnessed the conversation."Little Monkey sure feels strong and tough when he's in his little monkey bubble.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html