Flash from the past: the “imminent threat” lie still going strong

In the AP story run in today’s New York Times about the indictment of vice presidential aide I. Lewis Libby in the Plamegate whatever-it-is, this sentence appears:

Bush ordered U.S. troops to war in March 2003, saying Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction program posed a grave and immediate threat to the United States.

This is a total lie of course. As has been pointed out innumerable times, President Bush specifically said, on more than one occasion, that he would not wait until the threat was imminent. Taking action before there was an immediate threat was very basis of his preemptive strategy. None of this matters to the mainstream media however. Leftist hatred requires the endless propagation of lies. The liberal regime is, quite literally, built on them.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 28, 2005 08:15 PM | Send