Instead, the President and GOP jumped through hoops playing Clintonian word games, saying that Iraq did not pose an imminent threatWhat is so hard to understand about the President's very own words?
"If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late.
That doesn't seem Clintonian at all to me.
What is Clintonian is the warped justification. Instead of saying, forthrightly, truthfully, that Saddam and Iraq were imminent threats that had to be elimination, the President and GOP now have to go to great pains to show that Iraq
was not an imminent threat. Even though Saddam as/was pursuing WMD, butchers his people like Hitler, invades his neighbors, etc.
The President and GOP, in order to defend the Powell Doctrine of pre-emption, have to convince his detractors that Saddam and Iraq were not immminent threats.