Bush uses Saddam to justify Iraq occupation

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Bush uses Saddam to justify Iraq occupation

Dead or alive, the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remains useful to US President George W. Bush as a good excuse for continuing the occupation of Iraq by the US-led coalition forces. With his fate still unknown six months after the war, the former Iraqi president has proven to be the United States' largest excuse for military operations against Iraq.

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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has proven to be the United States' largest excuse for military operations against Iraq, said an article carried on Friday's China Daily.

Despite his departure from the presidency for six months, and the fact that it is unknown whether he is actually dead or alive, Saddam is still a card the United States has been playing.

Claiming that Saddam is still alive, US President George W. Bush accused him on Monday of trying to making trouble for the US-led coalition forces in Iraq - being behind a series of bomb attacks against a wide range of targets in Iraq.

Bush vowed that the United States would not run from its "vital" mission in the country but only hunt and get him.

Bush's words are nothing but an excuse aimed at exculpating himself from responsibilities for the mounting casualties of US soldiers in Iraq and continuously keeping a US military presence in the country.

Bush has so far had no exact evidence as to whether Saddam still remains at large, just as he has presented nothing on Iraq's alleged programme of weapons of mass destruction.

The United States has provided no evidence for his direct connections with the recent serious bombings in Iraq against US soldiers.

Clearly, with Saddam alive, the United States will always have a ready excuse for occupying Iraq.

Bush once said the US-led war in Iraq was to emancipate the Iraqi people from the rule of a despot and give them a democratic and stable Iraq.

But half-a-year after the "liberation," an ideal society promised by the United States is still out of sight of the Iraqi people.

Bush's words were only aimed at continuing to provide reasons for retaining the US military occupation of Iraq.

The United States has been under enormous pressure from home and abroad for its lack of an obvious intention to immediately end its military presence in Iraq and return the sovereignty of Iraq to the Iraqi people.

The pressure upon the Bush administration for the military withdrawal from Iraq has also remained high.

By saying this, Bush has already explicitly told the world his intention: The United States would not run from Iraq.

The United States is suffering troubles in Iraq. The US unilateral policy turned out to be the source of these troubles.

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