Okay, so, the question of what current U.S. administration officials did or didn’t say in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War has now taken center stage. (Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, on the March 14, 2004 FACE THE NATION, in response to a question about his use of the phrase “imminent threat” in relation to Iraq: “Well, you’re the — 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 — that’s what’s happened.”) (PDF transcript of 3/14 FTN here.)

The public’s thanks, then, are due to Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), for commissioning a report entitled “Iraq On the Record: The Bush Administration’s Public Statements On Iraq”. Further thanks are due the Congressman for making it a searchable database containing statements made by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Powell, National Security Adviser Rice, and Rumsfeld himself.

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credit Aaron Veenstra with the find…