{"id":1402,"date":"2004-03-15T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1402.html"},"modified":"2004-03-15T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T17:24:32","slug":"immediate-threat-who-said-anything-about-an-immediate-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/immediate-threat-who-said-anything-about-an-immediate-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Immediate threat?&#8217; Who said anything about an immediate threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&#038;b=6228\">today&#8217;s Progress Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Donald Rumsfeld, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/htdocs\/pdf\/face_031404.pdf\">yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You and a few other critics are the only people I&#8217;ve heard use the phrase &#8216;immediate threat.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t&#8230; It&#8217;s become kind of folklore that that&#8217;s what happened.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Donald Rumsfeld, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&#038;b=24970\">Sept. 19, 2002<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people than the regime of Saddam Hussein and Iraq.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Progress Report: Donald Rumsfeld, yesterday: &#8220;You and a few other critics are the only people I&#8217;ve heard use the phrase &#8216;immediate threat.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t&#8230; It&#8217;s become kind of folklore that that&#8217;s what happened.&#8221; Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 19, 2002: &#8220;No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}