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On a day when a man purporting to be Saddam Hussein appeared outdoors in Baghdad rallying his people for a final battle, U.S.-led forces
continued their relentless push to the capital, and senior U.S. leaders said the command of the war was so solid and the Iraqi regime’s situation so dire it didn’t matter whether he was alive. In Washington, infighting continued between the Defense Department and State Department over the leadership of a post-Hussein Iraq.
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