Tennent Backs his Officers, Never claimed Iraq was imminent threat.

Is there "clear" evidence that Saddam was attempting to buy a nuke on the black market?

 

Is there "clear" evidence that Saddam was intent delivering a blow to the US via his $$$$s/WMDs?

 

Is there "clear" evidence that Saddam worked with Al Qaeda and/or OBL tactically on terror strikes?

 

I think you may now get the drift of my questioning of your use of "clear"?

 

I didn't use "clear," Bush did.

What was clear then has become murky.

I'm not going to get hung up on dictionary definitions of a word like peril. I don't connote imminence in its meaning, so I doubt most do. Is that the best you have... de-constructing definitions to prove a point?

 

giddy,

Curious - how do you interpret that quote: "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

 

"In the face of a hostile enemy, let's not wait around for someone to do it to us again. Let's prevent tragedy on our soil. It could be worse next time."

How's that?

 

Doubt grows over preventive war

Intelligence lapses over Iraq raise skepticism among allies and others about the Bush doctrine on when to wage war.

By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – As questions mount around the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the intelligence that was used to justify going to war, one of the first casualties may be the Bush administration's doctrine of preventive war.
That is just one way the controversy over the use of intelligence to justify war is likely to impact US foreign policy. Already the wisdom of waging war against a gathering but unexercised threat is being questioned in Congress and among weapons experts.
But the failure to find weapons and the clouds over prewar intelligence are also feeding US allies' doubts on the rationale for war, and solidifying opposition to the administration's stated right to preemptive war.

"People who opposed this war feel vindicated and will feel even stronger about the risks of the doctrine of preventive war, that you have to base it on intelligence that may be flimsy, inaccurate, or can be interpreted in different ways," says Jens Van Scherpenberg at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.

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