Following the infamous State of the Union address, the White House and the Office of the Vice President sustain their rhetorical assaults on Iraq through the rest of winter, 2003, and of course into the spring. The rhetorical strategy with its hype about purported threat represented by Iraq, in early 2003, is eerily echoed five years later by similar hype about Iran in early 2008.
January 29-31, 2003:

Jan. 29, 2003 – Bush comments on Iraq in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan:

“See, the role of the inspectors are not to play "gotcha." He's ...   more »