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Center for American Progress Not Exactly Coming Clean

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CXLVIII

An educative blog, Jan. 28, at The New Republic Online (ellipsis in original).

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SCOTT MCCLELLAN, NOT EXACTLY COMING CLEAN:

"I think some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent.' Those were not words we used."
--White House spokesman Scott McClellan, January 27, 2004
"This is about imminent threat."
--White House spokesman Scott McClellan, February 10, 2003

Special thanks to the good folks at the Center for American Progress.

UPDATE: Shame on me for not checking this out more thoroughly. It turns out that the second McClellan quote was taken way out of context. He's refering [sic] to the threat Turkey would face after we invaded Iraq, not the threat Iraq posed to the United States prior to the war. Apologies to McClellan and the White House...

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As far as I can tell, the deceptive quotations were on this page, Jan. 28.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 01/30/04 07:16:21 PM
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