John;

One story that I cannot forget from a member of the Administration occurred two weeks before we attacked Iraq. "WMD’s no longer were in Iraq – they had been sent to Syria and Libya". Upon hearing this, I asked myself why we were not attacking those two nations instead?

Tom


>Dear Chris
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>>>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.
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>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.
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>No matter, time will tell.