[SoCal Pubbie]

Actually, it wasn't. Bush didn't say they HAD weapons of mass destruction. That's postwar spin.

In the State of the Union speech before the invasion, he said "Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late."

He didn't say Saddam HAD the weapons, but that if he did not cooperate with inspectors, we could not gamble that he did not.

[P-40]

"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent.

Which was immediately rewritten as "imminent threat" and lives on to this day...