Tom Maguire's been all over the Richard Clarke saga - so I don't have to! In one of his latest installments, he notes a choice vignette from Clarke's book:

[Bush r]esolved to attack al-Qaida on the evening of Sept. 11. That night, Bush spoke to his staff: "I want you to understand that we are at war and we will stay at war until this is done. Nothing else matters." When Donald Rumsfeld pointed out the legal problems posed by some proposed attacks, Bush said, "I don't care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass."