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Updated: 11:17 a.m. EST (1117 GMT) April 1, 2003
 
Stiff resistance after first week of war
President Bush, at Florida's MacDill AFB, said a "The strike was our only option"

Baghdad Leveled by Nuclear Strike

• U.S. Claims the strike was necessary in retaliation for an attack on American forces by chemical weapons
• 4,000,000 Estimated civilian casualties

• 30,000 Americans killed by Hussein's nerve gas

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