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Thursday, January 29, 2004

Can you say "imminent threat"? I knew you could.

The White House has been insisting lately that they never said that Iraq presented an "imminent threat" in the lead up to bombing the hell out of them. The Center for American Progress begs to differ.

"There's no question that Iraq was a threat to the people of the United States."
- White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan, 8/26/03

"We ended the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."
- President Bush, 7/17/03

Iraq was "the most dangerous threat of our time."
- White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 7/17/03

"Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States because we removed him, but he was a threat...He was a threat. He's not a threat now."
- President Bush, 7/2/03

"Absolutely."
- White House spokesman Ari Fleischer answering whether Iraq was an "imminent threat," 5/7/03

Etcetera.

posted by chris at 1:10 PM
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