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  Thursday  January 9  2003    01: 08 AM

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Why Does President Bush Want to Drop Bombs on Innocent Iraqis?

Helen Thomas: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up.

Ari Fleischer: I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack on Tel Aviv that killed scores and wounded hundreds. And the President, as he said in his statement yesterday, deplores in the strongest terms the taking of those lives and the wounding of those people, innocents in Israel

Helen Thomas: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?
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