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Article: Suddenly Saddam: U.S. shifts focus to `Baghdad's bad boy'.(Saddam Hussein)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- September 20, 2002
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Baghdad, IRAQ -- He may be the most dangerous man in the world. He's ruthless and relentless, and he hates America as much as it hates him.
He's not Osama bin Laden. He's Saddam Hussein, the longtime dictator of Iraq.
President George W. Bush isn't shy about sharing his views on Saddam Hussein. At a recent press conference, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said, "The president ... believes that Saddam Hussein is a menace to world peace, a menace to regional peace, and that the world and the region will be safer and better off without Saddam."
In recent weeks, Bush and other top White House officials have been discussing how to make ...