Iraq threat was not 'imminent', says White House ... just 'grave', 'gathering', 'urgent', 'mortal', and 'immediate'
The US White House has denied it ever warned that Saddam Hussein posed an 'imminent' threat to the United States.
'I think some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent'. Those were not words we used. We used 'grave and gathering' threat,' spokesman Scott McClellan said.
But if US President George W. Bush never called Saddam's Iraq an 'imminent threat' in so many words, he said it was 'urgent'.
Vice President Dick Cheney called it 'mortal' and it was 'immediate' to Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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