You and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase immediate threat. I didn't, the president didn't. And it's become kind of folklore that that's what's happened.

I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.

But no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein …

From the DOD News Briefing following the fall of Baghdad, April 11, 2003: