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Bush Reviews Iraq Attack Options
Tuesday, August 6, 2002
(10:40 AM ET)
By Barry Schweid
AP Diplomatic Writer

"I can't think of anything funnier than a handful of congressmen walking around. They'd have to be there for the next 50 years trying to find something. It's a joke," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said in an interview with a group of journalists.

WASHINGTON -- AP
The general who would command an invasion of Iraq has presented President Bush and his key advisers the latest Pentagon scenario for a U.S. attack.

Gen. Tommy Franks, who oversaw the war in Afghanistan, delivered the plan Monday at the White House.

But there was no indication Bush was about to make a decision on how to accomplish "regime change" in Baghdad.

Bush has raised the threat of a military assault to depose President Saddam Hussein, but has said other tactics were under consideration.

Possibly anticipating a decision, Saddam invited the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Hans Blix, to Baghdad for talks, with the hint a search for illicit weapons may be permitted after a suspension of more than 3 1/2 years.
(More: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel News Source)
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