If you listened to Bush's speech yesterday morning, and I always recommend against listening to him speak, then you might have believed that David Kay and his team actually found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This is the same administration that over and over again manipulated the majority of the public into believing that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. This is not an administration that is eager to be straight forward with the American people.
It is important to constantly remind one's self what was being said before the war, before over 300 Americans and thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens had been killed. We heard over and over again that Iraq was an imminent threat because of their weapons of mass destruction.
Let me take a moment to define the word "imminent" for the Bush administration.
imminent
adj., ready to take place; esp: hanging threateningly over one's head-- im.mi.nent.ly adv
Thank You Brittanica Ready Reference (If only you had been available to the most powerful office in the world.)
According to Reuters, Bush said yesterday, "Saddam Hussein was a danger to the world." Was he an imminent danger? Well, according to David Kay, the guy that wrote the report that caused Bush to exclaim Hussein's apparent dangers, he was not. On Newshour with Jim Lehrer this past Thursday, Kay said, "We have found no actual weapons at this stage." Well, that doesn't sound like a country that was a danger to the world and certainly not an imminent danger. Even Colin Powell, a normally sobering administration official, found reason to be optimistic, "We are more convinced by the Kay report that we did the right thing." Well, Mr. Powell, was it the part where they reported not finding any weapons that made you so sure killing thousands of people, none of which being the actual guy who posed this apparent imminent danger, was the right thing to do.
In an MSNBC article yesterday, Hans Blix(the UN inspector that was doing his job before America decided it was time to "Shock and Awe" the world with our big toys) said, in regard to the Kay report's claims that Iraq had programs in place to possibly develop WMD's in the years to come, "If they could develop weapons of mass destruction in five or ten tears, well, that certainly is not imminent." I wonder if Mr. Blix has the Britanica Ready Reference. He seems to know the meaning of the word imminent.