Bush Has Made No Decision on Iraq: National Security Advisor

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Bush Has Made No Decision on Iraq: National Security Advisor

A senior U.S. official said on Sunday that President George W. Bush has made no decision to attack Iraq while U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney began his trip to the Middle East.

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A senior U.S. official said on Sunday that President George W. Bush has made no decision to attack Iraq while U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney began his trip to the Middle East.

"President Bush has made no decision about the use of force against Iraq," U.S. national security advisor Condoleezza Rice said in an interview with NBC television.

"What he has done is to put the world on notice that the status quo with Saddam Hussein is not acceptable," Rice said. "That the situation in which Iraq continues to flaunt its obligations, under the 1991 armistice, to testify and to demonstrate that it is not acquiring weapons of mass destruction, that is not an acceptable situation."

She said Cheney, who departed on Sunday morning on a 10-day, 12- country trip, would "talk about the broad strategic challenges that we and our allies face in the region."

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