Little Rock - General Wesley Clark issued the following statement on today's revelations by President Bush and CIA Director George Tenet:

"Today, the CIA Director finally made clear what I have been saying since this campaign began - that Iraq did not pose an 'imminent threat' to the United States or its neighbors prior to the war, and the intelligence community never told President Bush that Iraq was an imminent threat. What's more, President Bush himself has admitted that the United States has not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"The facts now have been laid bare - the Bush Administration misled us into a war we didn't need to fight. He misled the American people. And the question now is: what did he know at the time? With no warning of an imminent threat, the American people have a right to know why, precisely, the President took us into this war.

"There has been too much distortion and manipulation of evidence; too much deceit. We need a higher standard of leadership in Washington. And since George W. Bush has gotten us into this mess, we need a strategy for success that will eventually get us out."