So the weapons weren't there--so what, Bush says, Saddam was a "gathering threat." We were certainly right to start a war. This threat simply had to be met.
Calvin TrillinSo the weapons weren’t there–so what, Bush says, Saddam was a “gathering threat.” We were certainly right to start a war. This threat simply had to be met.
A gathering threat can’t be ignored, So that’s why we gave him a lathering. Except if the weapons weren’t there at all, One wonders just what he was gathering.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”