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Bush told Hussein attack unlikely.

Murray Waas reports that President Bush personally received a report in January 2003 stating “that U.S. intelligence agencies unanimously agreed that it was unlikely that Saddam would try to attack the United States — except if ‘ongoing military operations risked the imminent demise of his regime’ or if he intended to ‘extract revenge’ for such an assault.”

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