- On 3 June 2003, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote, "The public was told that Saddam posed an imminent threat." This is a lie.
- As early as 21 May, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) said, "This administration led this nation into a war based on a pretext that Iraq was an imminent threat, which it was not." (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-05-21-byrd-usat_x.htm) That was a lie.
- Senator Robert Byrd (D-WVa) stated in his overblown way at the same time, "What has become painfully clear in the aftermath of war is that Iraq was no immediate threat to the U.S." (http://www.washington-report.org/archives/july_aug2003/0307012.html) But we knew that before we went in. (Try to keep up, Bob.)
- Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Ma) is also lying. "There was no imminent threat... This whole thing was a fraud," Kennedy said in an interview on 19 September (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/19/politics/main574154.shtml).
- Of course, Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) chimed in Thursday with, "it was clear to me that there was no imminence of a threat for weapons of mass destruction." (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/politics/04WEAP.html) No one ever said there was.
- Also reacting to David Kay's Thursday interim report on Iraq's WMD, Senator Carl Levin (D-Mi) said, "What took us to war were statements about weapons of mass destruction in the possession of Saddam Hussein and the threat of their imminent use." Another lie. (http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=1469350)
- And the Associated Press itself led off its story of David Kay's report with the lie, "Chief U.S. weapons searcher David Kay reported Thursday he had found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a finding that brought fresh congressional complaints about the Bush administration's prewar assertions of an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein." (http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/6912369.htm) There were no such assertions.
- You can even see the lies being told on the fly in UCLA's reprinting of the 29 Jan LA Times news reports of President Bush's State of the Union Address titled, "Bush Calls Iraq Imminent Threat". The Liberals attempted to convince us that President Bush called Iraq an imminent threat even as they reported his speech, in which he said no such thing! (http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/iraqimminent.html)
The actual words of President Bush, the words the Liberal liars want you to believe called Saddam Hussein an "imminent threat", were these:
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option.
Remember them. (Hint: This was why the Liberals were wringing their hands over Bush's "Doctrine of Pre-Emption" which was supposed to cause tens of thousands of US casualties at the hands of brave Fedayeen, every Arab country to rise up against us, and waves of crazed terrorists to attack US cities.) David Kay's interim report proves that the danger posed by Saddam's regime was very real, and gathering on the horizon, just as the President stated. If we had waited... what then? See David Kay's interim report, and judge for yourself: http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/2003/david_kay_10022003.html