TPM Contest best * Admin Iraq Immenient Threat Quote

[RamboLiberal]

It's only a T-shirt, but I figure one of our DU'ers ought to be able to win this one easy.

Our wingerly friends have made a lot of the rarity of occurences in which the phrase ‘imminent threat’ was used. But they rather ignore all the instances in which administration officials told the public we had to depose Saddam right now before he could use his nuclear weapons and smallpox on us. Any quotation which conveys the imminent threat message is acceptable even it doesn't contain the phrase 'imminent threat.'

(One example, though certainly not the best one, might be President Bush’s statement on March 7th of this year that he would no longer “leave the American people at the mercy of the Iraqi dictator and his weapons.”)

So now it’s up to you. Send us your best Bush administration ‘imminent threat’ quote.

The Rules: Only one submission per reader. It has to be sent to [e-mail]. It must include a citation to some published account in which the quotation appeared. And it must be received by October 27th.

Entries will be judged on imminence, relevance, provenance, bouquet and other such qualities.

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[librechik]

1. this is tough--Shrubby never says more than 2 syllable words

no one can find an instance of him saying "imminent,"

just lots of "go boom now"

Does that count?

[ronzo]

2. It's two syllables when he says it : Im-nit

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