Second, what are the possible responses to the Iraqi threat?

Censorship, which obscured the Iraqi threat before the invasion, remains in place.

Frank public discussion of the Iraqi threat, he added, "is absolutely essential."

The committee had specifically assessed the Iraqi nuclear threat in 1989, 1997 and 1999.

The women said the American public had been told too little about the precise nature of the Iraqi threat.

Hanging over these talks is an Iraqi threat to stop all cooperation with the inspectors.

The Iraqi nuclear threat does not, in itself, justify a military strike now.

Was this the reason all along and the Iraqi threat only a ruse to mobilize support for war?

But the rest of the world is unlikely to see the confrontation in such stark terms, or the Iraqi threat as that urgent.

He did not explain at what point he would consider the Iraqi threat "seriously diminished."