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2003 STATE OF THE UNION For three years, we have heard lies from the Democrats and from their willing accomplices in the MSM. It has been a non-stop assault. They have been emboldening our enemies because all they care about is their own power. On Sean Hannity radio, the bloated drunken lifeguard Senator from Massachusetts actually said - "We were told we would find nuclear weapons." Here is an excerpt of what was really said. Read the entire speech again, and you will see why the President had no choice after the attack on 9-11. The Dems had a...

In recent weeks, a debate has raged over the phrase "imminent threat." Many liberal critics have asserted that a central claim in President Bush's case for war in Iraq was that Iraq posed an "imminent threat." They argue that it's now clear that no such threat existed, and thus the President's argument has been revealed as deceptive or illegitimate. Conservatives retort that Bush never actually used the phrase and in fact specifically used language indicating that the threat was not imminent on several occasions. As a factual matter, conservatives are largely correct and liberal critics and journalists are guilty of...

After the release of the Iraq Survey Group's Duelfer report, the headlines blazed "No WMD Found." ...This reflects the notion that Iraq was only a threat if it had military munitions filled with WMD. The claim "Iraq was not an imminent threat" was also expounded by pundits that seemingly crawled out of the woodwork as well as those opposed to President Bush. But have these individuals read carefully the report...? While no facilities were found producing chemical or biological agents on a large scale, many clandestine laboratories operating under the Iraqi Intelligence Services were found to be engaged in small-scale...

President Bush's State of the Union Address Jan 28, 2003 [snip] "Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction. For the next 12 years, he systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, even while inspectors were in his country. Nothing to date has restrained him from his pursuit of these weapons -- not economic sanctions, not isolation from the civilized world, not even cruise missile strikes on his military facilities."...

THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE KERRY'S "GLOBAL TEST" FOR PREEMPTION:WHY SECURITY MOMS WILL VOTE FOR BUSH WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA   by Mia T, 10.01.04   BUSH: I WILL ACT PREEMPTIVELY TO PROTECT AMERICA (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) KERRY: I WILL REQUIRE 'A GLOBAL TEST' TO ACT PREEMPTIVELY (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) LEHRER: New question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry. What is your position on the whole concept of preemptive war? KERRY: The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a...

HEAR THE FIRST VEEP DEBATE NOW! (the whole ball of wax) CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE   WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA   by Mia T, 9.09.04   CHENEY WARNS AMERICA: THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT OUR SURVIVAL (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) KERRY-EDWARDS TRIES TO SHUT DOWN 'SURVIVAL' DEBATE (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) "It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today on November 2nd, we make the right choice because if we make the wrong choice, the danger is that...

kerry + "imminent threat" RUSH HAS IT WRONG by Mia T, 8.18.04 The addition in John Kerry's latest speech, that a Commander-in-Chief Kerry will act against an imminent threat, is nothing new. Acting against an imminent threat is consistent with the old neo-neoliberal/Soros doctrine; it is not consistent with the Bush Doctrine. Gathering threat, not imminent threat, is the Bush Doctrine operative phrase. Indeed, the left criticized George Bush precisely because the threat was not imminent. Remember, President Bush said that if we wait until the threat is imminent, we will have waited too long. Kerry is Unfit #10:...

The VP candidate once called Saddam Hussein's Iraq an "imminent threat." What will he say tonight?According to previews of John Edwards's much-anticipated speech tonight, the junior senator from North Carolina will attempt to establish his foreign policy bona fides. At the center of the address, naturally, will be Iraq. The issue will be a tricky one for Edwards. Along with Senator Joseph Lieberman, Edwards was an unapologetic defender of the war throughout the Democratic primaries, even as John Kerry began his efforts to distance himself from his support of the war-efforts that culminated in Kerry's embrace of the "antiwar" label....

Edwards urged military action on Iraq instead of North Korea with John King, who was subbing for Wolf Blitzer....... KING: Senator Edwards, when discussing the North Korean problem, the president wants to confront the regime, deal with its own missiles program plus its exports. There is not a reasonable military option when it comes to North Korea is there? EDWARDS: Well, I don't think we're focused on military options right now, John. I think it was important, in answer to your last question, it was important for the president to go to the region. I think he did help alleviate...

Wendell Goler, on tonights "Special Report with Brit Hume" has John Edwards on CNN claiming that Iraq was an imminent threat!!The President never used those words, but Johnny the Ambulance Chaser did!!

Outside view: Kennedy vs. Kennedy By Mark Q. Rhoads A UPI Outside View Commentary Published 1/31/2003 7:57 PM WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- More than 40 years ago in October 1962, 30-year-old Edward Moore Kennedy was a first-time candidate for U.S. senator from Massachusetts. He was running for the seat previously held by an older brother, President John F. Kennedy. During that month, with the congressional election only weeks away, President Kennedy unilaterally justified an act of war -- a blockade -- against Cuba. The reason given was that Cuba had accepted delivery and had deployed new missiles from the...

In politics the next best thing to a true friend is an overzealous enemy, for which reason British Prime Minister Tony Blair and George W. Bush are doubly blessed. They became friends indeed when they joined together to topple Saddam Hussein and both are better off for a domestic opposition that always reaches for too much. In Blair's case, that opposition includes the once prestigious British Broadcasting Corporation. During the Iraq war, BBC reporting was jaundiced and sometimes vehemently anti-American. That's OK, provided the "Beeb" didn't mind sacrificing its reputation as an honest broker of information. But it is a...

How dare George W. Bush now claim he never said Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.     Listen to this quote from 2002 on the danger posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction:     "I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."     Oops. Actually, that wasn't George W. Bush. It was John F. Kerry explaining why he was going to vote for the congressional resolution authorizing the use of force against Saddam's regime in Iraq.     Mr. Kerry now explains he wasn't really...

CIA Director George Tenet said in a speech Thursday that his agency never contended that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were an imminent threat, and Senator John Kerry then exploded as if he were himself a weapon of mass destruction. "They (the Bush administration) said Iraq posed a 'mortal threat,' an 'urgent threat,' an 'immediate threat,' a 'serious threat,' and yes, an 'imminent threat' to the people of the United States," said the Democratic presidential candidate in what a news account describes as a prepared statement. Given that Bush-is-a-liar outburst, it would seem time, for the sake of perspective...

THE Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, my hometown newspaper, unintentionally broke some news on its website last Thursday after Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet defended his agency in a speech at Georgetown University. "In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said today that U.S. analysts never claimed Iraq was an 'imminent threat,' the main argument used by President Bush for going to war." I followed the debate over the Iraq war closely and wrote about it extensively. Yet somehow I missed what, according to the Journal-Sentinel, was the "main argument" for the war: an "imminent threat" from...

Dispel the Imminence Myth - What YOU Can Do Right Now! Enough is enough!  We can stop the media lies right now -- or at least let them know that people are on to them.  If you are unfamiliar with the Imminence Myth, click here.  Every FReeper has to FReep the following email to the email list below.  It is a long list, so I have broken it up into three sections.  Please send to each section.The email reads as follows: Subject: Important Fact CorrectionDear Sirs,Please note that your company has (and continues) to misquote President Bush, to his prejudice.  This...

What the Bush administration really said about the threat from Iraq. THE Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, my hometown newspaper, unintentionally broke some news on its website last Thursday after Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet defended his agency in a speech at Georgetown University. "In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said today that U.S. analysts never claimed Iraq was an 'imminent threat,' the main argument used by President Bush for going to war." I followed the debate over the Iraq war closely and wrote about it extensively. Yet somehow I missed what, according to the Journal-Sentinel,...

Bush’s ‘Imminent Threat’ Lie! In making the case for war to the American people, President Bush clearly stated the primary reason for war was that Iraq’s WMD posed an imminent threat to the US. Ted Kennedy, Dennis Kucinich, Helen Thomas, Howard Dean, AP, UPI, New York Times, LA Times, network news, and many more have all told us this fact. Many go on and tell us how Bush mischaracterized or even lied about the threat. The problem with this story is, it is not Bush who is lying. Bush never said imminent threat or anything remotely close when he made...

(AP) CIA Director Geprge Tenet speaks at Georgetown Univeristy in Washington Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004. WASHINGTON (AP) - In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said Thursday that U.S. analysts had never claimed Iraq was an imminent threat, the main argument used by President Bush for going to war. [Bush actually said; we need to take out the Iraqi criminal (Hussein) BEFORE he becomes an imminent threat.] Tenet said analysts had varying opinions on the state of Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs and those differences were spelled out in the October 2002 National...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said Thursday that U.S. analysts had never claimed Iraq was an imminent threat, the main argument used by President Bush for going to war. Tenet said analysts had varying opinions on the state of Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs and those differences were spelled out in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate given to the White House. That report summarized intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs. Analysts "painted an objective assessment for our policy makers of a brutal dictator who was continuing his efforts...

[Paraphrasing--ABC News played a clip of Gergen saying that the president left the clear impression that the thread was imminent. Link takes you to Gergen's page, where it simply states he'll be pushing this lie on Nightline tonight.]

Is anybody watching? Did anyone catch Ford's lie. Does DM have an email address for his show yet?

CONCERN OVER RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ (Senate - October 09, 1998)HON. CARL LEVIN in the Senate October 9, 1998 Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, today, along with Senators McCain, Lieberman, Hutchison and twenty-three other Senators, I am sending a letter to the President to express our concern over Iraq's actions and urging the President `after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.' At the...

ISSUE: Did President Bush Allege that Iraq Posed an "Imminent" Threat to the United States? ANSWER: NO. SOURCE: "Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option." President Bush, State of the Union Speech, January 28, 2003http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946713/posts

CIA Director George Tenet said today that US analysts never claimed before the war that Iraq posed an imminent threat. In his first public defence of pre-war intelligence, Tenet said analysts had varying opinions on the state of Iraq’s chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programmes. Those differences were spelled out in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate given to the White House that summarised intelligence on Iraq’s weapons programmes. Analysts “painted an objective assessment for our policy makers of a brutal dictator who was continuing his efforts to deceive and build programmes that might constantly surprise us and threaten our...

WASHINGTON - In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA (news - web sites) Director George Tenet said Thursday U.S. analysts never claimed before the war that Iraq (news - web sites) posed an imminent threat. Tenet said analysts had varying opinions on the state of Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs and those differences were spelled out in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate given to the White House. That report summarized intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs. Analysts "painted an objective assessment for our policy makers of a brutal dictator who was continuing his efforts to deceive...

[Below are excerpts from the Los Angeles Times' article on Bush's 2003 State Of The Union Address:] Source: Los Angeles Times, January 29, 2003 THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS Bush Calls Iraq Imminent Threat "Trusting in Hussein's Restraint 'Is Not an Option,' President Says By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- A somber and steely President Bush, speaking to a skeptical world Tuesday in his State of the Union address, provided a forceful and detailed denunciation of Iraq, promising new evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime poses an imminent danger to the world and demanding the United Nations convene...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- "Saddam Hussein is an eminent threat to the United States," President George W. Bush said with such conviction that even I began to believe him. Suggesting sealing ourselves up with duct tape and plastic bags was one way the Bush administration tried to brood enough fear so the war in Iraq would be justified with the majority of the American public. Key officials in the Bush clan were connecting Hussein and Sept. 11, saying he had nuclear capacities and chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Most of us believed him. PBS' "Frontline" went to Iraq...

<p>Saddam Hussein (search) had weapons of mass destruction and his army was capable of firing them off in less than 45 minutes, according to statements from an Iraqi colonel.</p> <p>Lt. Col. al-Dabbagh told the London Telegraph that cases of WMD warheads were shipped under cover of darkness to front-line units, including his own, near the end of 2002, in a report published in Sunday editions.</p>

The late weapons expert Dr David Kelly said it would take Iraq "days or weeks" to deploy weapons of mass destruction. His view, at odds with the claim Iraq could launch weapons in 45 minutes, is in a previously unbroadcast interview shown in a BBC Panorama special. Panorama disputes a BBC report that No 10 ordered intelligence chiefs to add things to the Iraq weapons dossier. It also hears from an ex-intelligence boss who fears his successors were part of Tony Blair's "magic circle". Dr Kelly apparently committed suicide after being named as the suspected source for a BBC story...

An Iraqi army officer has claimed it was he who told UK intelligence that weapons of mass destruction could be used within 45 minutes of an order from Saddam Hussein. The officer, identified as Lt Col al-Dabbagh, told the London-based Sunday Telegraph newspaper he had provided several reports on the president's WMD plans from early 2002. These included details of how frontline units were supplied with cases of WMD warheads towards the end of last year. Downing Street has so far refused to comment on the report. However, a spokesman said anyone with relevant information should contact the Iraq Survey...

The truth, at last(Filed: 07/12/2003) "The West should thank God that the Iraqi army decided not to fight," Lt Col Dabbagh tells the Telegraph's intrepid Con Coughlin in today's newspaper. "If the army had used these weapons there would have been terrible consequences." The weapons Col Dabbagh was referring to are Saddam Hussein's stocks of chemical and biological warheads. A senior officer at the heart of Saddam's armed forces, the colonel was the conduit of the now-infamous claim in the intelligence dossier which Tony Blair presented to Parliament and to the country: the claim that Saddam had the capacity to...

At at time where the survival of our nation is dependent upon stopping the Islamist threat to our way of life, I am sicked at the spectacle that is the DemocRATic Party. Ted "Lifeguard" Kennedy said on the Sean Hannity Show that "we were told we would find nuclear weapons." That is bunk. The president never said that. Other RATS have claimed that President Bush said the threat of attack with WMDs was imminent. No, he didn't say that either. It is sometimes helpful to use a person's exact words. We have those words. Remember these words. Send them to...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Putting Words in the President's MouthNotra TrulockThursday, Nov. 6, 2003 Congressional Democrats and their friends in the media continue to distort President Bush’s case for war on Iraq. The controversy that erupted over the president’s reference to Iraq’s quest for uranium is one example of how his opponents have misrepresented what the president has actually said. Recall that in his State of the Union address, the president said the British told us that Iraq had been seeking to purchase uranium in Africa. A British parliamentary investigation recently validated that conclusion. David Kay’s interim report on the search...

The precise intelligence and specific policy calculations that impelled the Bush administration's decision to make war on Iraq will probably remain unascertainable for decades. From what we know now, however, it's clear that the administration massaged the truth, to put it charitably, concerning Saddam Hussein's links to Al Qaeda and the imminence of the threat posed by Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — the administration's two most important publicly stated rationales for war. But does this imply that the administration didn't go to war in defense of what it believed to be — and what perhaps were — the vital...

The president just implied 'imminent threat' Opening my e- mail after last Sunday's column, the first message I came across was from Bruce P. Batista of Avon, who accused me of "at best journalistic malpractice and at worst an outright fraud." This is typical Sunday fare for my critics, who are not shy about telling me how wrong I am and suggesting what I ought to do with my opinions. But Batista took his criticism a step further by challenging me and the editors at The Plain Dealer to a wager. He offered to donate $500 to the charity of...

<p>If history is uncongenial to your ideology or your ambitions, revise it. If facts contradict your point of view, drop them down the Memory Hole. But facts are stubborn things, as Sen. John D. "Jay" Rockefeller, West Virginia Democrat, learned to his sorrow in an interview with Tony Snow on "Fox News Sunday."</p>

Imminent refrain Jules Witcover Jules Witcover October 17, 2003 WASHINGTON -- When I wrote in my previous column that President Bush, in defending his Iraq invasion by citing the horrors of Saddam Hussein, "seemed to have forgotten those missing weapons of mass destruction he insisted earlier posed such an imminent threat," the e-mails poured in. One reader, saying I was repeating the "imminent threat myth," said the president had never used those words. Another offered: "Perhaps you know something the rest of us do not. Would you be so kind as to quote the president -- or any member of...

Jimmy Carter never used the word "malaise" in his "malaise speech." Abraham Lincoln never said, "God must have loved the common people, he made so many of them."And George W. Bush never said that the threat from Iraq was "imminent."He never said it. Seriously. Not once.Teams of rhetoric inspectors have been pouring over Bush's comments, utterances, speeches and gesticulations for about as long as we've been looking for WMD in Iraq and, to date, nobody has found a shred of proof that the president - or anybody in his Cabinet - ever once said Iraq or Saddam Hussein posed...

<p>The following is a transcribed excerpt from FOX News Sunday, Oct. 12, 2003.</p> <p>TONY SNOW, FOX NEWS: One year after the Senate (search) authorized the use of force against Iraq, some politicians are beginning to second-guess the war and criticize its aftermath.</p>

.Sen. Jay Rockefeller looked shocked Posted: October 15, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com He had expected to say anything he wanted and escape without challenge. But Fox News Channel's Tony Snow had a different idea. Snow thought it might be interesting to stick to the facts for a change. This Sunday past, Sen. Rockefeller took a play from the Terry McAuliffe playbook and simply invented a convenient history. He told Snow and a national television audience that President Bush has alarmed the nation with a speech warning that an attack from Iraq was imminent. Snow coolly played a tape of the...

(CBS) The person responsible for analyzing the Iraqi weapons threat for Colin Powell says the Secretary of State misinformed Americans during his speech at the U.N. last winter. Greg Thielmann tells Correspondent Scott Pelley that at the time of Powell’s speech, Iraq didn’t pose an imminent threat to anyone – not even its own neighbors. “…I think my conclusion [about Powell’s speech] now is that it’s probably one of the low points in his long distinguished service to the nation,” says Thielmann. Pelley’s report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes II, Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Thielmann also...

It's an imminence front!It's an imminence front!It's a put-on!The Who, It's HardOK, OK, so Pete Townsend didn't sing it quite that way, but if the NY Times thinks it can alter quotes to make a point, then so can I....In all seriousness, we are seeing a concerted effort by Dem politicians and liberal media pundits, along with alleged reporters who should know better, to try and shift the debate on Iraq. They are staking the claim that the Bush Administration stated the threat from Iraq as being imminent, when we all know that they actually debated that we should not...

Monday, October 13, 2003 Hooray for Tony Snow: On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller attacked President Bush for alleging that there was an imminent threat to the United States from Iraq. Snow, then confronted the senator with a clip from this year's State of the Union address, where President Bush said: Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come...

For weeks now, to the point of annoyance, we’ve witnessed Democratic politicians and liberal media talking heads stating that the threat from Saddam wasn’t imminent, as President Bush had claimed. Nancy Pelosi said it, as did Senators Levin and Rockefeller. The AP and Reuters have claimed it. Bob Edwards on NPR stated it as fact in a softball question to Terry McAuliffe during an NPR interview. By the time the Kay Report was made public, the NY Times felt the lie well-positioned enough to incorporate it into their opening front-page salvo against the evidence Kay presented: “Analysis: preliminary report delivered...

Eminently wrong on imminent threat. FNC's Brit Hume pointed out Monday night how, despite frequent media claims that President Bush cited the "imminent threat" from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as justification for going to war, "in fact, President Bush has publicly said just the opposite." On the October 6 Special Report with Brit Hume, during the "Grapevine" segment, Hume observed: "The Associated Press says it. Reuters says it, the New York Times says it repeatedly. Senator Levin says it, so does Senator Rockefeller. What they all say is that the Bush administration claimed, as a justification for going to war in...

With the latest polls suggesting that the American people want to hear more particulars of why Saddam Hussein is an imminent threat, a U.S. intelligence official over the weekend charged that Iraq has been aggressively trying to import equipment vital to processing uranium for use in nuclear weapons. Shipments of the specialized equipment have been intercepted before reaching the rogue nation, the official said. Included in the intercepted materials were quantities of a special aluminum tube, believed an essential component in centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Although Iraq’s program to acquire such tubes has been reported on in the past,...