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Do you thing Bush was purposely using such a vague interpretation of 'grave' or do you think he was trying to convey the message of "we gotta do something quick cuz this [censored]'s crazy?"

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I don't think grave was Bush's word. I believe it was another poster who said you could substitute grave for immediate/imminent. I disagree that such a substitution means the same thing.

But yes, that was what Bush was getting at. Do something now before the danger is so great (so imminent) that we can't do much to stop it.

Another way of looking at it: in my martial arts classes, I'm not being trained to wait till the punch is about to land on my nose. I try to do something about it before the other guy gets that far. I don't wait for imminent danger; I do something about the grave danger to my face before it becomes an imminent danger.

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Iran building a gigantic hammer that can crush 50 square miles constitutes a grave danger to Isreal. But they're not in imminent danger of being crushed.

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Yes. Apparently you can't see why so I won't ask.