while watching
"i speak with an imporant-sounding cadence" with wolf blitzer yesterday, we were dumb-founded as wolfie repeated to sen. joe biden the old worn-out meme that, quote, "president bush never used the word 'imminent' when speaking of saddam hussein," unquote.
we could not believe our ears. it may be actually true that awol never said the word. but he certainly said many other words that mean the same thing.
from the center for american progress, here's a partial list of what awol actually did say about saddam (and when he said it):
"the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder." (3/19/03)
"the dictator of iraq and his weapons of mass destruction are a threat to the security of free nations." (3/16/03)
"the iraqi regime is a threat to any american. ... iraq is a threat, a real threat." (1/3/03)
"the world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by iraq whose dictator has already used weapons of mass destruction to kill thousands." (11/23/02)
"the iraqi regime is a threat to any american. ... iraq is a threat, a real threat." (1/3/03)
"the world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by iraq whose dictator has already used weapons of mass destruction to kill thousands." (11/23/02)
"this man poses a much graver threat than anybody could have possibly imagined." (9/26/02)
"there's a grave threat in iraq. there just is." (10/2/02)
"the iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency." (10/2/02)
"unique urgency"? how is that not imminent?
wolfie, have you ever considered the fact that awol never used the word "imminent" is because he couldn't pronounce it?
cross-posted on our own technically-correct blog , and the american street.