Bush's Address to Nation 1 Year Later. "The difference a year makes"

[BurtWorm]

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html/index.html#mustreads


It's worth revisiting what President Bush told the nation exactly one year ago about why we were invading Iraq. In a solemn address from the Oval Office, Bush said: "My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. … Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly -- yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. We will meet that threat now, with our Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines, so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of fire fighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities. Now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force. And I assure you, this will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome but victory."

[Search Party]

1. but the president never said they were an "imminent" threat

BULLSHIT