Description	3/17/2003: Records of the White House Communications Agency (George W. Bush Administration) National Archives Identifier: 6171397. Washington, D.C. President George W. Bush delivers remarks to the nation regarding the demand for Saddam Hussein and sons to leave Iraq within 48 hours. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6171397 My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war. That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all its weapons of mass destruction as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Since then, the world has engaged in 12 years of diplomacy. We have passed more than a dozen resolutions in the United Nations Security Council. We have sent hundreds of weapons inspectors to oversee the disarmament of Iraq. Our good faith has not been returned. The Iraqi regime has used diplomacy as a ploy to gain ti
Date	2003-03-17
Source	commons.wikimedia.org
Author	White House Communications Agency

George W. Bush's statement on Iraq (March 17, 2003)

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