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IMMINENT BULLROAR: In our view, there would be no dishonor in saying this:
We sincerely believed that Saddam Husein posed a serious threat to America.
After all, that's what President Bush kept saying. Here's one part of his
seminal speech on October 7, 2002:

BUSH: Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical
weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists. Alliance with
terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving
any fingerprints.
On any given day, Iraq could give its WMDs to terrorists. In so doing, Iraq
could "attack America"-on any given day. This portrait was drawn for months
on end. Yes, it meant that Iraq posed a threat. Quite explicitly, the threat
was immediate.
In the State of the Union-almost four months later-Bush said there was no
"imminent threat." Scripted flunkies now spin the point hard. But plainly,
Bush had described an immediate threat. He ought to stop all the cutting and
pasting and say this: We believed in the threat.

Of course, lords and ladies won't get in this mess. They really don't know
what Bush said.