Jeff Morris wrote:
I'm curious how this thread will play out (the real thread, not this NG
thread!) - If GWB was playing a game by avoiding the words "imminent threat,"
I'm not sure the public will buy it. If you took a poll today, you'd probably
find the 80% of the voters "think" he said it.

Well, the Bush Administration and it's cheerleaders spent a lot of time
& effort (and a few million dollars, no doubt) convincing most of the
American public that Iraq definitely had 'weapons of mass destruction'
and was doing all it could to hit the US with them, and also that Saddam
Hussein was working closely with Al-Queda.

Both were patently false.

Now their own publicity is coming back to bite them. The question is,
what will the voting citizenry believe come November? Knowing what P.T.
Barnum said, and remembering that Nixon got reelected in 1972, I am
somewhat cynical about what is going to happen to this country. But I
still have some hopes....

Regards