Center for American Progress - In Their Own Words: Iraq's 'Imminent' Threat - Page: "the Administration's efforts to claim it never hyped the threat in the lead-up to war is belied by its statements.

'There are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists.'
President Bush, 10/7/02"

Iraq was 'the most dangerous threat of our time.'
President Bush, 7/2/03

'This is about imminent threat.'
White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 2/10/03

"The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency."
• President Bush, 10/2/02

"There's a grave threat in Iraq. There just is."
• President Bush, 10/2/02

"This man poses a much graver threat than anybody could have possibly imagined."
• President Bush, 9/26/02

"No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq."
• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/19/02"
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