Democratic Underground - here are some quotes......how close can they cut it?

Last October, a reporter put this to Ari Fleischer: “Ari, the president has been saying that the threat from Iraq is imminent, that we have to act now to disarm the country of its weapons of mass destruction, and that it has to allow the U.N. inspectors in, unfettered, no conditions, so forth.”

Fleischer’s answer? “Yes.”

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In January, Wolf Blitzer asked Dan Bartlett: “Is an imminent threat to U.S. interests, either in that part of the world or to Americans right here at home.”

Bartlett’s answer? “Well, of course he is.”

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A month after the war, another reporter asked Fleischer, “Well, we went to war, didn’t we, to find these — because we said that these weapons were a direct and imminent threat to the United States? Isn’t that true?”

Fleischer’s answer? “Absolutely.”

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“What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness.” Dick Cheney (August, 2002)

from Josh Marshall/The Hill cache
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:rXcecjP5-UcJ:www.hillnews.com/marshall/110503.aspx++bush+called+Iraq+imminent+threat&hl=en&start=2&ie=UTF-8

from the above link, Marshall does a good job of demonstrating what junta apologists are up to:

“No member of the administration,” conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan recently wrote, “used the term ‘imminent threat’ to describe Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. No one. … Clark is repeating a lie that has been thoroughly exposed on the Internet and elsewhere, a lie that even The New York Times has stopped repeating.”
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Critics like Sullivan want to put the onus on Democrats to untangle these silly word games if they want to talk about what we all know happened in the run-up to the war. But that’s just not how it works. Just as they can’t undo what they did, the White House and its supporters can’t undo what they said. There’s no use denying it. It was only a year ago. We were there. We remember.

Also.....I'm sure I saw a link here somewhere, too, that referenced monkeyboy actually using the word imminent WRT Saddam.

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