Bob Schieffer: "If Iraq did not have WMD, why did they pose an immediate threat to this country?"

Rummy: "You and a few other critics are the only people I've heard use the phrase 'immediate threat.' I didn't...It's become kind of folklore that that's what happened... If you have any citations, I'd like to see 'em."

NYT's Tom Friedman reading Rumsfeld's own words: "No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people" ... "some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent [but] I would not be so certain."

Rummy... fumbling now: "Mm-hmm. It--my view of--of the situation was that he--he had--we--we believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries had and that--that we believed and we still do not know--we will know."