Prs. Bush DIDN'T claim Hussein was an imminent threat, he said that we shouldn't wait for him to become one.
"Some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent - that Saddam is at least 5-7 years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain. And we should be just as concerned about the immediate threat from biological weapons. Iraq has these weapons."
• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/18/02
"No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq."
• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/19/02
"This man poses a much graver threat than anybody could have possibly imagined."
• President Bush, 9/26/02
"There's a grave threat in Iraq. There just is."
• President Bush, 10/2/02
"The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency."
• President Bush, 10/2/02
"There are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists."
• President Bush, 10/7/02
"There is real threat, in my judgment, a real and dangerous threat to American in Iraq in the form of Saddam Hussein."
• President Bush, 10/28/02
"I see a significant threat to the security of the United States in Iraq."
• President Bush, 11/1/02
"Saddam Hussein is a threat to America."
• President Bush, 11/3/02
"I would look you in the eye and I would say, go back before September 11 and ask yourself this question: Was the attack that took place on September 11 an imminent threat the month before or two months before or three months before or six months before? When did the attack on September 11 become an imminent threat? Now, transport yourself forward a year, two years or a week or a month...So the question is, when is it such an immediate threat that you must do something?"
• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 11/14/02
"The world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by Iraq whose dictator has already used weapons of mass destruction to kill thousands."
• President Bush, 11/23/02
"The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American. ... Iraq is a threat, a real threat."
• President Bush, 1/3/03
"Iraq poses a serious and mounting threat to our country. His regime has the design for a nuclear weapon, was working on several different methods of enriching uranium, and recently was discovered seeking significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 1/29/03
Iraq "threatens the United States of America."
• Vice President Cheney, 1/30/03
Iraq is "a serious threat to our country, to our friends and to our allies."
• Vice President Dick Cheney, 1/31/03
"This is about imminent threat."
• White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 2/10/03
"The dictator of Iraq and his weapons of mass destruction are a threat to the security of free nations."
• President Bush, 3/16/03
"The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder."
• President Bush, 3/19/03
"We gave our word that the threat from Iraq would be ended."
• President Bush 4/24/03
"Absolutely."
• White House spokesman Ari Fleischer answering whether Iraq was an "imminent threat," 5/7/03
"Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States because we removed him, but he was a threat...He was a threat. He's not a threat now."
• President Bush, 7/2/03
Iraq was "the most dangerous threat of our time."
• White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 7/17/03
"We ended the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."
• President Bush, 7/17/03
Let start by taking 9 of these right out of here since they were "not" said by President Bush. And that was the statement you were parrying. "Prs. Bush DIDN'T claim Hussein was an imminent threat, he said that we shouldn't wait for him to become one."
And on "top" of ALL that no where in "any" of your quotes did President Bush use the statement "imminent threat"! Now please try again.
Get over yourself, Please! The man has stepped up to the plate and wacked your argument out of the park. GWB made us all believe that Hussein was a serious threat to the United States, by using Bull Shit Intellegence that he knew was false, in order to get our support. I fell for it you fel for it. When Colin Powell said that RVs were driving around bagdad enriching uranium and mixing biological warhead cocktails, I bought it hook Line and sinker. Thing is when I stood up tall and thought for myself I began to realize that GWB is a passionate man, of little intellegence, that surrounded himself with ambittious people who wanted to invade Iraq since the original Bush was in office and felt they failed to do the job then. As it turned out Iraq was not a threat, and Iraq or Isreal could have invaded and conqured Iraq with very little problem.
Your probably one of those wack jobs that think all the WMD got ferretd away in the dead of night to Syria. Which would have been impossible since we had the border under heavy satalite observationfor months before and after the war started. Don't forget that this is the age of satalites where google world can pinpoint a spot on the boarder. I can tell you with absolute certainty that no convoy that left Iraq on any boarder went unmolested or untracked. In this day and age a suspicious truck that shows up on the boarder can be traced via satalite to its origination and then to its destination cataloged and refrenced later. I know there were people whose job it was to cross refrence satalite imagry against places in Iraq
of interest, empty warehouses, burned and bombed out labs, to verify traffic to and from these locations.
But beyond that, lets use simple logic. If there were WMD and they were taken to Syria, then the insurgents would have access to them. If the insurgence had chemical or biological weapons at their disposal they would have used them by now instead of car bombs, roadside bombs and suicide bombers. One such bomb during the elections would have meant the end of the democratic system in Iraq for years to come. I know people that were over there, they said the insurgents were being taught how to build these bombs, the complexity of their weapons were growing exponentially. If they had access to anything they used it. So if they had access to WMD they would have been used by now.
And before you label me as a liberal wacko keep in mind I am a conservitive, a Patriot, probably more conservitive than you, just with out the religious overtones. I don't believe in Abortion, I don't believe in big government, and I dont think a tax cut is always a bad idea. I think the government should stay out of our pockets, build roads and defend out liberty. I also believe in the give a man a fish and hes feed for a day, teach a man to fish and he can sustain himself for life ideology No wealfare, just education please in massive doses! With better education in this country we wouldn't have leaders like George Bush - a liar, a cheater, (and a poor one at that on both accounts) getting elected to two terms.
