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To: Sully- who wrote (113219)	8/28/2003 7:39:22 PM
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Do you disagree with this? -- I think that most likely Bush was trying to imply to the citizenry, without using the word, that the danger was imminent, by using "can't wait" in the same sentence with "clear evidence," "peril," and "mushroom cloud," and other such characterizations of the situation regarding the threat to us from Iraq. ("Arsenal of terror" comes to mind.) It wouldn't be surprising, would it, if Americans concluded that the reason we "can't wait" is because the danger to our country (of a "mushroom cloud") was imminent? And if they did conclude that was why we "can't wait," would that have been contrary to the intention of the speaker, do you think?

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