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http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/03/15/rumsfeld/

Basically, Rumsfeld said reporters and others were making up the immediate threat line, and said to give him a citation of someone in the administration using it.

Rumsfeld's testimony to Congress in September 2002: "No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people"

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Isn't that true? More immediate doesn't mean the same thing as immediate.

Example: A porcupine is more fluffy than cement. Doesn't mean the porcupine is particularly fluffy.

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Although I do think Rumsfeld's response was a complete crack-up.

[ROFL]

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I think more immediate threat does imply an immediate threat. Consider "nothing is more harmful", which does imply harmful.

Also, if you take a look at the complete transcipt of his letter, it is quite clear he did mean immediate threat:

http://lists.state.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-USIAINFO.EXE?A2=ind0209c&L=wf-americas&D=1&H=1&O=D&F=&S=&P=3754

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