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Bush Applauds Death of Hussein Brothers

Published July 23, 2003 FoxNews.com

Email WASHINGTON – President Bush praised U.S. forces Wednesday for the raid Tuesday that killed Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Share Qusay and also expressed joy for the Iraqi people now that they Like 0 have further assurance the former regime is destroyed.

Tweet 0 "Yesterday in the city of Mosul, the careers of two to the regime's Share chief henchman came to an end. Saddam Hussein's sons were responsible for the torture, maiming and murder of countless Iraqis. RECOMMENDED VIDEOS Now more than ever, all Iraqis can know the former regime is gone and will not be coming back," Bush said in a Rose Garden speech. He was flanked by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers and the U.S. administrator Miller on the Boston FBI releases images, in Iraq Paul Bremer (search). bombings video of Boston bombing suspects

Bush said the deaths of Uday (search) and Qusay Hussein (search) mean nothing but good news for the war effort and he thanked Bremer for doing a "fine job" in helping reconstruct Iraq.

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"Over the period of many years, these two individuals were World Markets › responsible for countless atrocities committed against the Iraqi people and they can no longer cast a shadow of hate on Iraq," the statement read.

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regard, the military has said that they could release pictures of the Israeli airline staff start strike over open skies two bodies. deal Global finance officials endorse World Bank target to end poverty And, U.S. forces are now on the hunt for Saddam Hussein. The ousted dictator appeared on another audiotape played on Arab television on Monday. Said to have been taped on Sunday, Saddam urges Iraqis to continue attacks on U.S. troops.

Indeed, attacks are continuing. Two more American soldiers were killed in Iraq overnight. They died during attacks on two convoys. U.S. soldiers in Iraq admit they are worried about revenge attacks. When Iraqi citizens celebrated in the streets with gunfire, a U.S. soldier shot a man and little girl by mistake, thinking troops were under attack.

Bush said that the United States will not allow "a few remaining holdouts" to stop the "advance of freedom."

"These killers are the enemies of Iraq's people. They operate mainly in a few areas of the country and wherever they operate, they are being hunted and they will be defeated," he said.

Bush added that a free Iraq will not be a training ground for terrorists.

"A free Iraq will not destabilize the Middle East, a free Iraq can set a hopeful example to an entire region," he said.

In Hong Kong, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the U.S.'s closest ally in the war on terror and Operation Iraqi Freedom, called the killing of the two "monsters" great news.

"This is a great day for Iraq," Blair said. "These two particular people were the head of a regime ... that was responsible for the torture and killing of thousands and thousands of Iraqis."

Blair and Bush have both been under criticism for the use of questionable intelligence to make the case against war in Iraq. Tuesday's raid, which lasted six hours as U.S. troops slowly escalated their attack, blunted some of the criticism.

It also drowned out the latest White House admission about the president's State of the Union address in which National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's deputy admitted that he received two memos from the CIA calling into question the now-disputed intelligence.

Stephen Hadley said CIA Director George Tenet had also called him months before the address to warn that the intelligence about Iraq trying to buy uranium in Africa was too weak to rely on. Hadley said he should have remembered the exchanges before allowing the information to be included in the president's speech.

Bush aides said the president was upset by Hadley's failure to come forward with

the CIA objections, but turned down what amounted to an offer by Hadley to resign.

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Bush "has full confidence" in his national security team, including Hadley and

Tenet, White House communications director Dan Bartlett said.

The White House acknowledged two weeks ago that the information they had was based on phony documents even though British intelligence, which forwarded the report, insists that they still have two other protected sources to verify the claim.

The White House has said the CIA's complaints to Hadley involved technical details only — where and how much uranium was sought — not a refutation of Iraq's attempts to buy the uranium.

Hadley said the memos warned all the evidence was weak and that the purchase wouldn't be worth much anyway.

Democrats called again for an investigation.

"These disclosures...raise more and more questions," said Sen. Carl Levin of

Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Fox News' Wendell Goler and Jennifer Davis contributed to this report.

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