During a joint news conference Friday with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Bush called the operation "a defining moment in the history of a free Iraq, " saying the government is fighting criminals there.
"We had a regime that had a history of using weapons of mass destruction and had a history of defying the international community and had a history of ties to terrorist organizations in Iraq, " he said.
There's still a lot of difficult work to be done in Iraq, but thanks to the courage of the Iraqi people, the year 2005 will be recorded as a turning point in the history of Iraq, the history of the Middle East and the history of freedom.
The White House calls it a landmark day in the history of Iraq.
'Today we witnessed a landmark event in the history of Iraq: Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal, ' Mr. Bush said to roars of approval in a hockey auditorium packed with supporters in Grand Island, Neb.
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That's because beginning tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will stage one of the most unusual debates in its history -the House will debate a brief resolution disapproving of President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq.
And whereas both Germany and Japan had been democracies in varying degree, Iraq has been ruled by a succession of terrifying autocrats since the beginning of human history.
Where he ran afoul of Republican orthodoxy is when he began to doubt the wisdom of the war in Iraq, a military campaign he eventually came to view as one of the biggest blunders in American history.
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Fuad Hussein, an Iraqi who has returned from abroad and is now in charge of revising the curriculum, says he plans to set up a committee made up of Iraqis from different religious, political and ethnic groups to debate and rewrite Iraq's history.
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