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To: JohnM who wrote (11689)10/10/2003 8:45:30 PM
From: LindyBill   of 793891
 
Andrew Sullivan is right about the media's use of "Imminent."
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FRONTLINE'S LIE: More imminent insinuation from the left. Frontline, the left-wing arm of liberal WGBH, ran a documentary last week, paid in part by tax-payers' dollars, that threaded the "imminent" meme throughout. (They had the gall to email me to promote it). Here's one question posed to Paul Bremer that simply assumes the lie:

I guess the problem is that Americans cautioned that this aftermath would be difficult, and that we didn't sign up for a humanitarian mission; we signed up to rid ourselves of an imminent threat. Was the war wrongly sold?
The distortion continues relentlessly. And you're paying for some of it.
- 7:36:41 PM

HERE'S DASCHLE: From October 10, 2002, here's an extract from Tom Daschle's case for agreeing with the administration's rationale for war:

The threat posed by Saddam Hussein may not be imminent, but it is real, it is growing, and it cannot be ignored.
There you have it. Why does the media continue to lie about the arguments made for war against Saddam? They keep moving the goal-posts so the administration cannot win. Just as they did all they could to prevent the war, and to undermine it when it was going on, now they seek to distort history to advance the agenda of appeasing terrorist-sponsoring tyranny. (Thanks to Bo Cowgill.) Keep those "imminent" references coming. We can turn this untruth around.
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