Saddam Hussein's pursuit of WMDs is motivated by a desire to secure his seat of authority in the region, and increase the size of his sphere of influence. ... Hussein has been given a multitude of opportunities to disarm himself, and has consistently violated UN resolutions. ... Saddam Hussein's regime is built on fear. ... Hussein has had 12 years, and the debate continues over whether or not he is disarming. ... Also, as far as intelligence goes, CIA and similar allied agencies believed that Saddam was many years away from nuclear weapons in 1991. ...

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The attempt on al-Hashimi's life Saturday appeared to be well planned and almost certainly the work of Saddam Hussein loyalists seeking to disrupt the U.S.... The attack, widely thought to be the work of Saddam loyalists, killed at least 85 people. Al-Hakim's Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the biggest anti-Saddam opposition group, was represented in the 25-member Governing Council. ... SHOW OF FORCE On Saturday morning, soldiers patrolled through Tikrit and the eastern banks of the Tigris river, site of a deadly attack Thursday ...

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Since then, America has tried several Iraq policies: engagement during the 1980s, armed confrontation during the 1990-91 Gulf crisis, containment through the 1990s, and now "regime change", which makes replacing Iraqi president Saddam Hussein the focus of the U.S. policy. ... In the winter of 1991, after a U.N. deadline for Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait expired, a U.N.... -led coalition drove Iraq out but stopped short of removing Saddam. President George Bush and his advisers didn't destroy Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War because, they say that, they had a U.N. mandate to ...

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Even though OIF officially ended on May 1st, the military operations in this Middle Eastern country are still being held in order to keep peace to ensure the reconstruction of an Iraq shattered by decades of war and embargo while Saddam Hussein's Regime was still on the power. ... For this reason, the military presence of the US, and the rest of the Coalition is critical in order to confirm the dissolution of Hussein's regime and the creation of a democratic government so that this will still no longer represent a threat of national security not only to the US but to the World. ...

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