CBS Evening News - 2003-02-25

Name: CBS Evening News - 2003-02-25
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[0:03] Tonight from the Middle East, the CBS

[0:06] News exclusive one-on-one with a defiant

[0:09] Saddam Hussein.

[0:11] >> Any official,

[0:12] >> will you destroy those missiles?

[0:15] And if he does not,

[0:17] >> President Bush says disarm fully now or

[0:20] it's war.

[0:21] >> Completely disarmed. Also tonight, more

[0:24] war worried Americans are voting no

[0:26] confidence in the struggling US economy

[0:29] and a wicked winter ice storm in a very

[0:33] unlikely place.

[0:41] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:46] Rather reporting tonight from Aman

[0:48] Jordan and John Roberts in New York.

[0:53] Good evening from the Middle East, where

[0:54] in this part of the high desert there's

[0:56] several feet of snow and where war now

[0:59] may be weeks or less away. President

[1:03] Bush today again warned Iraq there's

[1:05] only one way to avoid war and that is

[1:08] quote full disarmament, but Saddam

[1:11] Hussein remained defiant. as I got

[1:14] together with the Iraqi president in one

[1:16] of his palaces in Baghdad for an

[1:19] exclusive wide-ranging interview.

[1:22] >> Mr. President, um do you intend to

[1:25] destroy the Assamood missiles that the

[1:29] United Nations um prohibits?

[1:34] Our commitment is to abide to comply

[1:37] with the 1441 resolution and to apply

[1:40] it. As you know, Iraq is allowed to

[1:43] manufacture land-to-land rockets as per

[1:46] the resolution of the United Nations.

[1:49] >> I want to make sure that I understand,

[1:51] Mr. President. So, you do not intend to

[1:55] destroy these missiles?

[1:59] >> Which missiles? What do you mean? We

[2:02] have no missiles outside the

[2:03] specifications of the United Nations and

[2:05] the inspection teams are here and

[2:07] they're looking. I believe the United

[2:10] S