‘Immediate threat?’ Who said anything about an immediate threat?

From today’s Progress Report:

Donald Rumsfeld, yesterday:

“You and a few other critics are the only people I’ve heard use the phrase ‘immediate threat.’ I didn’t… It’s become kind of folklore that that’s what happened.”

Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 19, 2002:

“No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people than the regime of Saddam Hussein and Iraq.”