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2nd lead Writethru: Bush says "major combat operations" over inIraq
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Xinhua News Agency
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May 2, 2003
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2nd lead Writethru: Bush says "major combat operations" over in
Iraq
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Speaking on the deck of a homebound
US aircraft carrier, President George W. Bush announced Thursday that
the "major combat operations" in Iraq have ended and the US-led
forces "have prevailed."
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of
Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed," Bush said in
a nationally-televised speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which
is at sea off the California coast.
"Now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that
country," Bush said, warning at the same time that the US-led allied
forces still "have difficult ...