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To: LindyBill who wrote (11763)	10/11/2003 2:03:52 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

If you go back to the records you will see that while the president does not use the exact phrase, he talks about... This must be written down somewhere in some anti-Bush handbook. I've read it again and again here on SI. Various rather arcane formulations of what members of the Bush Admin have remarked that spell "i-m-m-i-n-e-n-t" in secret ink. Very persistent. I watched some of Cheney's stuff on TV this evening, spelling in big bold quotes what the Admin has really said. More of that is needed. Derek

To: LindyBill who wrote (11763)	10/11/2003 11:57:07 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Andrew Sullivan gets "Imminent" with "Frontline" again. All this word parsing. Much worse than the meaning of "is." Which, given the circumstances, was a very clever response. It's about as clear as can be that the Bush folk tried to sell the invasion as the result of an imminent threat. That was necesary to make the case for an invasion in the spring rather than the following fall; to make the case against more time for the inspectors; to justify going without UNSC approval; etc. To pin it to the lack of specific words is an unusual act of desperation on Sullivan's part.