Reply #71: You have a problem with Edwards' statement here?

[katieforeman]

The threat of terrorism is very real. That threat is not an exageration. The exagerations involved the linkage of Iraq to terrorism. Edwards was just making the point that terrorism is a very real threat against which we need to protect ourselves. I don't know many people who would disagree with that.

Earlier in the debate, Edwards did acknowledge that the Iraq threat wasn't what we had been told:

Edwards: The American people, we, need to get to the bottom of this, with an independent commission that looks at -- that will have credibility and that the American people will trust, about why there is this discrepancy about what we were told and what's actually been found there.