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President Says Military Phase in Iraq Has Ended
By DAVID E. SANGER


AN DIEGO, May 1 ・President Bush declared tonight that the military phase of the battle to topple Saddam Hussein's government was ”one victory in a war on terror that began on Sept. 11th, 2001, and still goes on.”

Speaking from the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln before thousands of uniformed sailors and aviators as the ship approached San Diego Harbor, he argued that by vanquishing Mr. Hussein's government, he had removed ”an ally of Al Qaeda,” and he vowed to continue to search for banned weapons in Iraq ・a search that so far has been largely unsuccessful ・and to confront any other nations that use such weapons to threaten the United States or could sell them to terrorists.

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Mr. Bush's speech tonight, 43 days after he announced to the nation from the Oval Office that the war had begun with a surprise bombing of a compound where Mr. Hussein had been sighted, ended the combat phase of one of the swiftest wars in American military h