March 17, 2003
President Says Saddam Hussein Must Leave Iraq Within 48 Hours
Remarks by the President in Address to the Nationhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.htmlexcerpt:
Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, and I have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. In a free Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbors, no more poison factories,
no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near.
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And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people. Do not obey any command to use weapons of mass destruction against anyone, including the Iraqi people.
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Bush Addresses Nation on Saddam Hussein Capture"It marks the end of the road for him..."
The White House, Dec. 14, 2003
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/waronterror/a/bushonsaddam.htmTHE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Yesterday, December the 13th, at around 8:30 p.m. Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive. He was found near a farmhouse outside the city of Tikrit, in a swift raid conducted without casualties. And now the former dictator of Iraq will face the justice he denied to millions.
The capture of this man was crucial to the rise of a free Iraq. It marks the end of the road for him, and for all who bullied and killed in his name. For the Baathist holdouts largely responsible for the current violence,
there will be no return to the corrupt power and privilege they once held. For the vast majority of Iraqi citizens who wish to live as free men and women, this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever.
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Bush Applauds Death of Hussein Brothershttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,92714,00.htmlexcerpt:
"Yesterday in the city of Mosul, the careers of two to the regime's chief henchman came to an end.
Saddam Hussein's sons were responsible for the torture, maiming and murder of countless Iraqis. Now more than ever, all Iraqis can know the former regime is gone and will not be coming back," Bush said in a Rose Garden speech. He was flanked by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers and the U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer (search).
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