This was a 1998 open letter that the Project for the New American Century sent to then-President Clinton, urging him to pursue regime change in Iraq. The letter begins, quote, In your upcoming State of the Union address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the United States and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim above all at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power.

A couple months after that letter was sent, the group followed up with another letter to Newt Gingrich, then the Speaker of the House, and Trent Lott, the then-Senate Majority Leader. The letter was basically them reporting that they tried to get Clinton to work on getting Saddam out of power, but he wasn't biting. They reiterated that it was their belief that policies of containment that had been in place regarding Saddam weren't working, and that if left unchecked, he posed a very severe threat, perhaps the worst since the Cold War.