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In CBS News/New York Times poll, President Bush earns 71 percent job-approval rating, and 80 percent support attack on Iraq. . . . Bush, at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa: “We cannot predict the final day of the Iraqi regime, but I can assure you, and I assure the long-suffering people of Iraq, there will be a day of reckoning for the Iraqi regime, and that day is drawing near.” . . . More Bush: “Slowly, but surely, the grip of terror around the throats of the Iraqi people is being loosened.” . . . Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: “This war is an act of self-defense, to be sure, but it is also an act of humanity.” . . . Rumsfeld on war protesters, on NBC: “This is a free country. People can have their own views and they always have. In every war there have been protesters. The America Firsters filled Madison Square Garden repeatedly with thousands of people before World War II, while Europe was in flames, while millions of Jews were being killed.” . . . “We’ve never said it was going to be quick,” says Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman. “We’ve never said it was going to be easy.” . . . Sens. Lincoln Chafee (R., R.I.), Olympia Snowe (R., Me.), and George Voinovich (R., Ohio) join Democrats in slashing Bush tax-relief package in half.

Secretary of State Colin Powell on Russian military sales to Iraq: “It’s the kind of equipment that will put our young men and women in harm’s way. It gives an advantage to the enemy, an advantage we don’t want them to have.” . . . Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who commanded troops in Gulf War, on BBC: “In the process if [the Iraqis] actually fight, and that’s one of the assumptions, clearly it’s going to be brutal, dangerous work and we could take, bluntly, a couple to 3,000 casualties.”

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In CBS News/New York Times poll, President Bush earns 71 percent job-approval rating, and 80 percent support attack on Iraq. . . . Bush, at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa: “We cannot predict the final day of the Iraqi regime, but I can assure you, and I assure the long-suffering people of Iraq, there will be a day of reckoning for the Iraqi regime, and that day is drawing near.” . . . More Bush: “Slowly, but surely, the grip of terror around the throats of the Iraqi people is being loosened.” . . . Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: “This war is an act of self-defense, to be sure, but it is also an act of humanity.” . . . Rumsfeld on war protesters, on NBC: “This is a free country. People can have their own views and they always have. In every war there have been protesters. The America Firsters filled Madison Square Garden repeatedly with thousands of people before World War II, while Europe was in flames, while millions of Jews were being killed.” . . . “We’ve never said it was going to be quick,” says Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman. “We’ve never said it was going to be easy.” . . . Sens. Lincoln Chafee (R., R.I.), Olympia Snowe (R., Me.), and George Voinovich (R., Ohio) join Democrats in slashing Bush tax-relief package in half.

Secretary of State Colin Powell on Russian military sales to Iraq: “It’s the kind of equipment that will put our young men and women in harm’s way. It gives an advantage to the enemy, an advantage we don’t want them to have.” . . . Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who commanded troops in Gulf War, on BBC: “In the process if [the Iraqis] actually fight, and that’s one of the assumptions, clearly it’s going to be brutal, dangerous work and we could take, bluntly, a couple to 3,000 casualties.”