Silly word games and weapons of mass destruction=The Hill.com=: "In recent months, Democrats have criticized President Bush for claiming that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed an imminent threat to the United States. Ted Kennedy said it. Wes Clark said it. And plenty of others have, too.

But now Republicans say it�s a bum rap. A chorus of conservative columnists and talk-show hosts claims that nobody in the administration ever said any such thing.

�No member of the administration,� conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan recently wrote, �used the term �imminent threat� to describe Saddam Hussein�s Iraq. No one. � [Wesley] Clark is repeating a lie that has been thoroughly exposed on the Internet and elsewhere, a lie that even The New York Times has stopped repeating.�

Could this possibly be true? Could all our memories be so faulty?

In a word, no. "