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Originally posted by Rodeo Refusing to admit that Saddam's Iraq was not an "imminent threat" to America makes you precisely that -- a blind follower and Bush apologist.

Jay Rockefeller (Democrat of the robberbaron fortune) from the Senate Intelligence Commitee (2002):

"As the attacks of September 11 demonstrated, the immense destructiveness of modern technology means we can no longer afford to wait around for a smoking gun. September 11 demonstrated that the fact that an attack on our homeland has not yet occurred cannot give us any false sense of security that one will not occur in the future. We no longer have that luxury.

September 11 changed America. It made us realize we must deal differently with the very real threat of terrorism, whether it comes from shadowy groups operating in the mountains of Afghanistan or in 70 other countries around the world, including our own.

There has been some debate over how "imminent" a threat Iraq poses. I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated."