>>WHY do you insist that "the problem" is that President Bush did or did not say the exact words "imminent threat"?
>>Surely he and his sycophants ALL said things that can be aptly/accurately characterized as "imminent". Repeatedly!
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>Where? Where did anyone in the administration use words that mean the same as imminent?
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>>And if President Bush said, as quoted here so he obviously did, that he would not wait until things became "imminent" then isn't that WORSE????? I mean it essentially says that he wants war and ain't even going to wait until there's a REAL REASON to do so! He's going to war because he's worried. THANKS!!!
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>As President Bush pointed out when does someone like Saddam or a terrorist group announce that they're going to attack? The U.S. had no warning what was going to happen on September 11, 2001. Does that mean we should not have invaded Afghanistan after the first World Trade Center bombing, the attacks on our 2 embassies in Africa, or the bombing of the U.S. Cole?
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>Your opinion seems to be that you should wait to be attacked before striking back. I disagree completely.


I understand from a number of sources that the FBI and CIA warned the White House about the possibility of aircraft hijackings and no action was taken. At the same time the FBI failed to do very much even though they had names and locations of the individuals involved with knowledge these were dangerous persons.

Historically, one nation attacks another for whatever reason that can be imagined. A pre-emptive strike is unusual in that no physical action from the country being attacked has occurred. Where is Osama ben Laden? What new groups of terrorists have been created due to actions taken by the United States against Afghanistan and Iraq? Are we or anyone in the world safer today? I think not.

The Axis of evil includes two other countries, Iran and North Korea. What should be done about them? Perhaps we should become like Sparta and draft all males to fight wars.

The administration had many voices and concepts about why we were going to attack Iraq. Perhaps the plan, if there was a plan, was to voice many opinions and different members of our society would agree with one or more of them. You could thus have a greater number of individuals agree with the plan to attack Iraq. Now those same persons in the administration are changing the rationalization for such actions as have been accomplished.

We have surely opened Pandora’s Box and this topic has not really begun to take hold. As Chairman Mao Zedong wrote in his book about Gorilla Warfare, “As long as there is one Gorilla, there is war”! Change the word Gorilla to Terrorist!