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From Bob Woodward’s interview with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:

Q:  Because it said look, if you guys don’t do it we’re going to, it could not have been plainer.  I think you were quoted as saying don’t cock it unless you are willing to use it.
Rumsfeld:  That’s always been my motto, you best not do that because you lose your credibility.
Q:  And this was the cocking of?
Rumsfeld:  The hope was that it wasn’t the cocking.  It was the cocking but the hope was that the cocking—-
Q:  You didn’t have to pull the trigger.
Rumsfeld:  Exactly and you didn’t have to pull the trigger.
Q:  Right okay, but it was definitely the cocking. . .

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Secretary of Defense Interview with Bob Woodward - 23 Oct, 2003 [Defenselink]