Indeed, Saddam's sentencing was only a brief interruption in the president's final campaign swing.
Remember that Syria had the closest relations of any of Iraq's neighbors with Saddam.
CNN: Lieberman urges United States to 'win the peace' in Iraq
Bush is standing by his actions, expressing no regret about removing Saddam Hussein from power.
In 1997 Saddam Hussein escalated his campaign of harassment, obstruction and threats against the inspection effort.
Clearly, Saddam had surrounded himself with advisers who told him only what he wanted to hear.
On December 15, 2003, U.S. military captured Saddam Hussein and Dean called it no big deal.
They said they don't know where he went after the collapse of Saddam's government.
First, though, Saddam faces weeks if not months of interrogation by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Mr Blair, the president's closest ally, has already said that Iraqis will decide Saddam's fate.
He also said removing Saddam from power would make other nations less vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
No-fly zones were also imposed by Western nations in Iraq during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
Largely free from Saddam's depredations, the Kurds have practiced the arts of self-rule and commerce.
For years, the United States has tried to remove Saddam by encouraging coups and internal conspiracies.
But in the polling after Saddam's capture, support for Dean had retreated to 27 percent.
In polling directly before Saddam's capture, Bush was ahead of Dean 52 percent to 44 percent.
Mr Martin was quick to congratulate the American president on the capture of Saddam Hussein.
In 1995, Saddam launched a new program using a converted training aircraft code-named L29.
The U.S. had been accepting risks from Saddam Hussein for more than a decade.
Powerful radio broadcasts would battle Saddam on a daily basis without firing a shot.
So far, no evidence has been found that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed such weapons.
Ironically, President Bush gave the speech on the same day that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
"I don't think he (Saddam) is ordering any attacks on our soldiers, " he said.
Do the leaders of all the other countries in Europe not see Saddam as a threat?
U.S.-led coalition forces launched an assault on Saddam International Airport southwest of Baghdad Thursday.
"We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, " he said.
The international community gave Saddam one last chance to resume cooperation with the weapons inspectors.
Iraqis with Saddam-era passports were also out of luck, because the Iraqi government had cancelled them.
In the case of Saddam Hussein for instance, the case is strong that it is.
Saddam's information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, was also nowhere to be seen on Wednesday.
Had Saddam Hussein responded, he argues, the military build-up would have been slowed, or stopped.
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