Plan of Attack examines the 18 months of planning and rhetoric that went into Operation Iraqi Freedom, launched March 19-20 in 2003. Inconclusive data on Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and intention to put them at the disposal of the al-Qaeda terrorist network are used by the Bush Administration to justify the war. They claim that the initiative is their last alternative in removing a Hitler- or Stalin-like menace from the world.