Rice: Saddam was the problem [View All]

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Washington - President George W Bush did not address the issue of weapons of mass destruction in his speech to the nation at greater length because Saddam Hussein is no longer in power, Bush's national security adviser said Monday.

"It's very simple. Saddam Hussein is no longer in power," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told NBC television, one day after Bush addressed the nation in a primetime speech about the challenges ahead in Iraq.

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False impression

Howard Dean, a leading Democratic contender for president, said on Monday that Rice and Bush "deliberately left a false impression: one, that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the September 2001 attacks on the United States; and two, that there were terrorists actively working out of Iraq."

"There's no evidence for either one of those, other than some peripheral evidence that is circumstantial," Dean said.

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Go Howard!