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Writethru: Bush declares end of major combat operations in Iraq
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Xinhua News Agency
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May 2, 2003
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Writethru: Bush declares end of major combat operations in Iraq
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Xinhua) -- United States President George W.
Bush said on Thursday that "major combat operations" in Iraq have
ended and that US and its allies "have prevailed" in Iraq.
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of
Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed," Bush said in
his speech on board the homebound USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft
carrier.
The remarks were made some six weeks after Bush announced the
beginning of the war in Iraq in an Oval Office speech on March 19.
"In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty, and for
the peace of the world," Bush said.
But ...