George Tenet says today that CIA analysts "never said there was as imminent threat."
Well shit dude I was nervous there for a few months! i thought Saddam was working with al-Qaeda to pipe poison gas through my window sill, i bought duct tape and EVERYTHING!!!
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)
Just not "imminent."
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)
Iraq was a country under siege that had no opportunities or methods to be a threat to anyone. If they actually did and that fact comes out later, I think it will be a surprise to everyone (and a pleasant shock to Bush and co.)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)
"Ambassador Wilson spent eight days in Niger. He never was shown the alleged documentation of any deal but interviewed top officials, analyzed the possibilities and concluded -- as did the Bush ambassador to Niger -- that there was little chance that any such transaction transpired. He reported this back to the CIA and the State Department..."
― andy, Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 February 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― *, Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)
In Their Own Words: Iraq's 'Imminent' ThreatJanuary 29, 2004Download: DOC, PDF, RTFThe Bush Administration is now saying it never told the public that Iraq was an "imminent" threat, and therefore it should be absolved for overstating the case for war and misleading the American people about Iraq's WMD. Just this week, White House spokesman Scott McClellan lashed out at critics saying "Some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent'. Those were not words we used." But a closer look at the record shows that McClellan himself and others did use the phrase "imminent threat" – while also using the synonymous phrases "mortal threat," "urgent threat," "immediate threat", "serious and mounting threat", "unique threat," and claiming that Iraq was actively seeking to "strike the United States with weapons of mass destruction" – all just months after Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted that Iraq was "contained" and "threatens not the United States." While Iraq was certainly a dangerous country, the Administration's efforts to claim it never hyped the threat in the lead-up to war is belied by its statements."There's no question that Iraq was a threat to the people of the United States."• White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan, 8/26/03"We ended the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."• President Bush, 7/17/03Iraq was "the most dangerous threat of our time."• White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 7/17/03[...]
The Bush Administration is now saying it never told the public that Iraq was an "imminent" threat, and therefore it should be absolved for overstating the case for war and misleading the American people about Iraq's WMD. Just this week, White House spokesman Scott McClellan lashed out at critics saying "Some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent'. Those were not words we used." But a closer look at the record shows that McClellan himself and others did use the phrase "imminent threat" – while also using the synonymous phrases "mortal threat," "urgent threat," "immediate threat", "serious and mounting threat", "unique threat," and claiming that Iraq was actively seeking to "strike the United States with weapons of mass destruction" – all just months after Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted that Iraq was "contained" and "threatens not the United States." While Iraq was certainly a dangerous country, the Administration's efforts to claim it never hyped the threat in the lead-up to war is belied by its statements.
"There's no question that Iraq was a threat to the people of the United States."• White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan, 8/26/03
"We ended the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."• President Bush, 7/17/03
Iraq was "the most dangerous threat of our time."• White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 7/17/03
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There are dozens more there, going back 2 years.
feel free to peruse them all.
― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Research/2004WMDA.htm
too.
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)