Somebody said, well, we had made up our mind to go -- to use military force to deal with Saddam. There is nothing farther from the truth.
George H.W. Bush: “Somebody said, well, we had made up our mind to go -- to use military force to deal with Saddam. There is nothing…”
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Bush denies claims that the decision to use military force against Saddam was predetermined.
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