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Bush Defends Iraq Policy
Aired August 27, 2003 - 11:14 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: For the very latest now on the situation in Iraq, let's go ahead and check in with CNN senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers in Baghdad.
Hello to you, Walter.
WALTER RODGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Heidi.
Increasingly, Iraq and Baghdad specifically is beginning to look like the Wild, Wild West, ironic when you recall that the European's chief criticism of President Bush and the war in Iraq that the Americans and the American president were behaving like cowboys. Two more American soldiers killed today in two separate incidents, one of them an ambush here in Baghdad, another a third armored regiment soldier killed in an improvised explosive device. Again, that brings the total to 141.
More soldiers have died since President Bush declared the war over than during the war itself. Baghdad is now being postered -- papered as it is with posters, wanted posters of Saddam Hussein, essentially saying, wanted dead or alive, $25 million reward, an X'd out pictures of Saddam's two sons who were killed previously by U.S. forces.
And if the news is not bad enough on that front, there are now indications that the pipeline from Iraq up into Turkey has been breached. A breach of that pipeline costs the Iraqis about $7 million a day in lost oil revenues. It appears this is sabotage. Again, remember, this happened, again, earlier in this month. Now there's smoke and flames coming from what is said to be another sabotage breach of the pipeline -- Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Walter Rodgers, thank you so much, live from Baghdad this morning.
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Aired August 27, 2003 - 11:14 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: For the very latest now on the situation in Iraq, let's go ahead and check in with CNN senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers in Baghdad.
Hello to you, Walter.
WALTER RODGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Heidi.
Increasingly, Iraq and Baghdad specifically is beginning to look like the Wild, Wild West, ironic when you recall that the European's chief criticism of President Bush and the war in Iraq that the Americans and the American president were behaving like cowboys. Two more American soldiers killed today in two separate incidents, one of them an ambush here in Baghdad, another a third armored regiment soldier killed in an improvised explosive device. Again, that brings the total to 141.
More soldiers have died since President Bush declared the war over than during the war itself. Baghdad is now being postered -- papered as it is with posters, wanted posters of Saddam Hussein, essentially saying, wanted dead or alive, $25 million reward, an X'd out pictures of Saddam's two sons who were killed previously by U.S. forces.
And if the news is not bad enough on that front, there are now indications that the pipeline from Iraq up into Turkey has been breached. A breach of that pipeline costs the Iraqis about $7 million a day in lost oil revenues. It appears this is sabotage. Again, remember, this happened, again, earlier in this month. Now there's smoke and flames coming from what is said to be another sabotage breach of the pipeline -- Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Walter Rodgers, thank you so much, live from Baghdad this morning.
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