Saddam Hussein has neither the intention nor the capability to threaten America, and is easily deterrable if he did.

But how exactly do they threaten America?

Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction.

He thought he could still threaten America.

After all, they say, North Korea may threaten America with one to five missiles, but instability in Russia is a much greater risk.

It is "an enemy that threatens not just America but all of civilization, or all of the civilized world," he added.

The proposed mine and its toxic waste would have threatened not only America's first and foremost national park, but also the ecosystem surrounding it.

Rogue state: how a nuclear North Korea threatens America.

In 2013, a dangerous mastermind threatens America.

"There's no one threatening America here, and we don't have a fight here."