©2004 Curves International At Curves, resolutions are a group effort. a Your Imminence continue to this day." eorge So much for immediacy. Tenet Tenet received more flak on Feb. 5, should be 2004, after a speech at Georgetown worried. University when he said prewar intelli- As CIA director gence "never said there was an immi- for the better part of nent threat." two presidencies, his The phrase "imminent threat" doesn't - organization has mean anything in this case. Pick up a been under fire for transcript of the 2003 State of the HARRY lapses in intelligence Union address, read seven paragraphs KIRSBAUM since 9-11. past those 16 words and you'll find: Columnist Until now, any criti- "Some have said we must not act until cism of the Bush the threat is imminent. Since when have administration's han- terrorists and tyrants announced their dling of all things war-related has been intentions, politely putting us on notice met with angry rebukes by conservatives before they strike? If this threat is per- complaining about Bush-bashing by the mitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all liberals. actions, all words and all recriminations Enter_ Bill O'Reilly. would come too late. Trusting in the On Tuesday, during a segment of sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein ABC's Good Morning, America, the Fox News commentator and head of the is not a strategy, and it is not an option." "No-Spin Zone" apolo- War was on Bush's mind back then, gized to viewers for giv- and it didn't matter what people said. ing the administration I was sold on a pre- the benefit of the emptive attack from doubt that Saddam statements made by Hussein's weapons of Secretary of State mass destruction posed Colin Powell the week an imminent threat. before. He also questioned According to why Tenet still had his Tenet Newsweek, he warned job. a French official that Tenet has been taking flak since time was running out assuming responsibility for the 16-word Bush for Saddam Hussein. statement in Bush's State of the Union "Inspections will not work," he also address on Jan. 28, 2003: "The British told reporters. government has learned that Saddam Something had to have scared him Hussein recently sought significant enough to make him think in terms of quantities of uranium from Africa." an imminent threat, and if this reluctant The president also used intelligence warrior was convinced, who was I to reports to imply that the Hussein matter disagree? couldn't wait, and had to be addressed Powell has been relatively invisible in immediately. recent weeks, but I have to wonder if he Now that Saddam Hussein is in an is as angry with the Tenet excuse as he "undisclosed location" not of his choos- should be. ing, Bush's tone changed during this I've noticed that beginning with the year's State of the Union address. Clinton administration, if someone in "Some in this chamber, and in our power screws up, only an apology is country, did not support the liberation necessary to keep their job. Fess up, look of Iraq," he said. "Objections to war contrite and keep collecting your pay- often come from principled motives. check But let us be candid about the conse- It happened in 1993 with Attorney quences of leaving Saddam Hussein in General Janet Reno after the bloody power. 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