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To: E. T. who wrote (21225)	7/23/2007 3:55:33 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 71588

The administration overstated the threat to America from Iraq. Not in my opinion. You are entitled to yours....but you have no monopoly on the truth.... J.

To: E. T. who wrote (21225)	7/23/2007 4:02:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The specific "imminent"/"not imminent" debate is clearly overblown. As for overstating the threat, perhaps, but not as clearly or as much as you seem to think. Isolated quotations clearly show words that would support your charge of overstating the immediacy of the threat, but a longer term threat is still a threat that has to be dealt with, and also if you look at all the statements made by the administration, and not just a selected few, you see again and again statements that the threat isn't imminent or might not be imminent, or doesn't have to be imminent. One can reasonably debate Bush's strategy, and try to make the argument that invading Iraq in 2003 wasn't the correct response to the threat. And its also possible to point out flaws in the execution of the strategy. But neither support the "Bush lied, people died" slogan, so perhaps you are less interested in them.