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Bush Says 'Good Riddance' To Saddam

By Don Gonyea

Published December 14, 2003 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 21 years ago.

President Bush bids "good riddance" to Saddam Hussein and says Hussein will face a trial in Iraq after the United States and Iraq's Governing Council have worked out its parameters. The president declined to say whether the death penalty ought to be considered when the deposed leader is tried for war crimes. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.