There was no rush to launch on a certain date, and there was no headlong attempt to minimize problems.

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"It wasn't so much about planning to initiate operations on a 'date certain, ' as it was about determining if the regime would heed the warnings of the international community and comply" with a U.N. resolution, the official said.

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President Bush put his chips on a date-certain vote, despite widespread doubt and opposition inside Iraq, in the region, in Europe, in the United Nations and in the United States.

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Instructions could be improved, he said, by focusing on whether food was still safe to eat by a certain date.

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