Gix, I agree w/ you. There was a big to-do here in the States about exactly who used those exact words "Imminent threat".
Certainly the administration stated their case that Saddam was dangerous, then and not just in the future.
The WMD flap aside(as it turns out, terrible intel from several sources, including our own) I think Saddam was indeed a danger to world safety for his involvement and potential involvement w/ terrorists, to his neighboring countries, and to his own poeple. . Not trying to pick a fight here if you disagree.
I wonder the following: Much of our intel came from Russia. Now the Russians are pretty clever... did they get bad intel? deliberately give us bad intel to induce us to oust Saddam? deliberately give us bad intel so we would look foolish on a world scale?
No, I'm not blaming Russia for our definitive statements that WMD were present. We said it, we took action based largely on it, ergo it is our fault.
