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To: LindyBill who wrote (15282)	11/5/2003 5:06:31 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793640

I was reading everything coming out at the time and we all knew that Saddam was not an "Imminent threat." Funny, I was reading everything coming out at the time, too, and posting and posting and posting. I was paying very close attention because I was listening for a good enough rationale for getting on board the bandwagon and not hearing one. I had a very different impression from you. I don't know that anyone said those two words together--I'm not a detail person--but that was the clear impression I had. Yeah, I knew Saddam wasn't an imminent threat, which is why I was so exercised that the powers that be kept suggesting that he was and that everyone seemed to believe that he was. It seemed to me that they were hyping to make a case for attacking. I had a number of arguments with friends who were scared shitless about the imminent threat. I had one friend begging me to get out of Dodge. That's my take. I don't see how I could have misread it.