Reply #53: Most of the world just interpreted it that way

[spindoctor]

Including rightwing talkshow hosts that now make a big ordeal over the fact that he did not say that Iraq was an imminent threat.

He certainly fooled me.

Did he also not say that the UK thought Iraq was an imminent threat?

PM Blair mentioned something about a 40-minute risk. The words clear and present danger also still linger in my memory. Did he not say that either? Was I just imagining that too? If he did say that, is that significantly different than "imminent threat"?

I heard this dumb-ass comment first on Friday afternoon, coming from some live talkshow broadcasting from Texas. I couldn't get through unfortunately.

Because let's face it. If half the world is under the impression that those words were used, and the other half does not contest it until 8 months after the fact, then it is simply a moot point.

It does however indicate that all hope on finding any WMDs is now definitely lost. Or did Mr. President never say that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction/Weapons of Mass Murder in Iraq?