From: Gene McAloon 

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:24:01 -0600, David N. Barnett  wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:51:32 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
> wrote in message :
>
>| Well we know that part was a fiction, as Bush never said they were an
>| "imminent threat."
>
>What about his lapdog Colin Powell?

As did Negroponte in his arguments at the UN. The alleged imminence was even the
legal justification presented by the administration to support a pre-emptive attack.

I suspect that was the reason Bush backed off a bit in his State of the
Union address. Demonstrating an imminent threat proved impossible, so he
then claimed that it wasn't necessary; that a threat at some undefined time
in the future was
sufficient to support a pre-emptive attack. Of course that bit of nonsense
is what got Bush so much ridicule for that speech.

Iraq as an imminent threat was implicit in Bush's whole campaign to get UN
approval for his proposed war for nothing else would justify it. It is not
a little disingenuous to claim otherwise because he didn't state that in a
particular speech.

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