IRAQI WAR COUNTDOWN: Bush orders Saddam to quit
LONDON, 16 MARCH 2003(BBC)--US President George W Bush has given Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq or face war.
In a televised address to the nation, Mr Bush said it was time for "decades of deceit and cruelty" to end in Iraq.

"Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours," Mr Bush said shortly after 0100 GMT.