Dear Chris
>>My point, as I wrote to Jim, is that no one in the administration ever claimed that Iraq was an imminent threat. You claim they did say that. As I wrote earlier, if you have a quote from the administration, I am all eyes.
Abject apologies; I assumed that the "imminent threat" was the WMD, and that if people said that WMD existed, then they were describing an imminent threat. I also thought that possibly giving weapons to terrorists (another claim of which there remains no evidence) was an example of an imminent threat. I also understood that "imminent threat" was an important justification for attacking another nation, which is why it was so important that there had to be one.
No matter, time will tell.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
