Bush: Berg's killers must be found

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Bush: Berg's killers must be found

By PETE YOST, Associated Press
Last Updated 8:07 am PDT Saturday, May 15, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is focusing on the killers in Iraq who beheaded American civilian Nicholas Berg, insisting they must be hunted down as part of a strategy ultimately designed to bring peace to the U.S.-occupied country.

"We must confront the enemy and stay on the offensive until these killers are defeated," Bush said in his weekly radio address, as he sought to shift the focus from the abuse of some Iraqi prisoners by American troops.

With polls showing his approval ratings at the lowest level of his presidency, Bush went on the offensive, saying that Marines are systematically dismantling the militia of a radical Shiite cleric and are disrupting enemy attacks in the Fallujah area, home of Saddam Hussein loyalists and other militants.

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White House spokesman Scott McClellan said later that the United States only stations its forces in places around the world "where we are welcome, and I fully expect our forces to continue to be in Iraq at the invitation of a sovereign government on July 1."

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