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Article: Ousting Saddam: President George Bush has instructed the CIA to kill or capture Saddam Hussein, initiating the start of a deadly international game of cat and mouse. Lives will be lost but there is no guarantee the Iraqi dictator's will be among them and--if the US plan to depose Saddam works--how would a new Iraqi federation work? (Current Affairs).(Saddam Hussein, head of state of Iraq, US Central Intelligence Agency)
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- The Middle East
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- July 1, 2002
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Saddam must go: America's President George Bush seems to have made up his mind. Washington's crescendo of rhetoric, directed at the Iraqi dictator, peaked by the third week of June. It followed much chatter about President Bush's new doctrine: the right to take pre-emptive action against terrorist and rogue states, which might acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Although seen as nonsense by the majority of experts on such matters, the Bush doctrine appears to have made sense to some.
"We have to isolate those rogue states that are seeking to develop (or have developed) WMD, and eliminate the threat they pose. Sometimes this will be possible by employing a ...