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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (140930)7/19/2004 9:54:48 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
You cited Iraq's nuclear program as a reason to invade <"They both claimed that Saddam was working on WMD programs"> -- but there was no nuclear program.

As to your question: Did Bush use the word "imminent"? Not in anything I have seen or heard. But did Bush and his Administration claim that Iraq possessed WMDs and had WMD programs, both of which presented a threat the United States -- absolutely. You cannot expect anybody to take you seriously if you are going to try to make the case that Bush and his Administration did not try to make it seem as if Iraqi WMDs and Iraqi WMD programs posed a threat to the United States. Don't make yourself out to be a weaseling fool -- Bush et al did handstands trying to make the case that there was a threat to the United States so serious that only an invasion of Iraq could be relied upon to eliminate it -- and that case was dead wrong.
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