March 23, 2004
Darn the luck!
Jeez, you know... imminent, not imminent... it's a 50/50 shot, right?!
Bush Defends Actions on al-Qaida Threat
President Bush said Tuesday he would have acted more quickly against al-Qaida if he had information before Sept. 11, 2001, that a terror attack against New York City was imminent.
So, despite being warned by the Clinton administration that Bin Laden was... well, kind of an imminent threat, Bush ignored the warning for 9 months. Then he decided Iraq was an imminent threat (see Rumsfeld, Donald) and... oops... not so imminent.
D'oh!
Sometimes a dude just can't catch a break!
Posted by John at March 23, 2004 08:58 PMI suspect that when Clinton was telling Bush about the imminent threat that bin Laden posed, Bush--being the highly erudite scholar that he is--just assumed that Clinton was characterizing terrorism as an immAnent threat: that is, that terrorism was a social construct that had a proper existence only within the sphere of discourse.
Naturally, Bush then spent the next eight months waxing philosophical on the nature of reality, and was shocked to find that Clinton's ill-advised choice of homophones had caused the deaths of 3,000 people.
Posted by: Matt at March 23, 2004 09:38 PMDuuude, you are sooooo high...
Posted by: John Moltz at March 23, 2004 09:58 PMOh, god, how I wish.
Posted by: Matt at March 23, 2004 10:07 PM