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Saddam as a Gathering Threat

So the weapons weren't there--so what, Bush says, Saddam was a "gathering threat." We were certainly right to start a war. This threat simply had to be met.

Calvin Trillin

February 12, 2004

So the weapons weren’t there–so what, Bush says, Saddam was a “gathering threat.” We were certainly right to start a war. This threat simply had to be met.

A gathering threat can’t be ignored, So that’s why we gave him a lathering. Except if the weapons weren’t there at all, One wonders just what he was gathering.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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