Strick:

Apparently Rumsfeld did say that " no terrorist state poses a greater and more immediate threat to the security of our people, and the stability of the world, than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq...". And if that is not stating literally that it IS such a threat, it is very clearly leaving it there as an obvious intentional implication. So this is just slimey nitpicking -- he was supporting the invasion of a country, American and Iraqi blood in the sand, and he was just being philosophically relative about things? Give me one large break.

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