In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet said Thursday that U.S. analysts had never claimed Iraq was an imminent threat, the main argument used by President Bush for going to war.
As I've noted before, this is profoundly untrue. Here are the quotes Ms. Pfleger uses to support her case:
In the months before the war, Bush and his top aides repeatedly stressed the urgency of stopping Saddam Hussein. In a Sept. 12 speech to the United Nations, he called Saddam's regime "a grave and gathering danger." The next day, he told reporters that Saddam was "a threat that we must deal with as quickly as possible."
In an Oct. 7, 2002, speech in Ohio, Bush said "the danger is already significant and it only grows worse with time."
Apparently for the AP, a significant and grave threat that we must deal with before it turns into an imminent threat IS somehow "imminent" by definition. By that standard, Hussein was an imminent threat.