[PAA-Discuss] saddam offered to exile

[Lee Loe]

Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway
What could have been saved? A trillion dollars, a million lives, the global
reputation of the U.S. - but that wasn't the plan 

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison  <http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.html> Planet
Thursday, September 27, 2007

	Neo-Cons could have saved a trillion dollars, spared over a million
lives and prevented tens of thousands of dead and injured U.S. soldiers but
decided to unleash carnage anyway, after it was revealed last night that
Saddam Hussein offered to step down and go into exile one month before the
invasion of Iraq.

"Fearing defeat, Saddam was prepared to go peacefully in return for
£500million ($1billion)," reports the Daily Mail
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_artic
le_id=484162> .

"The extraordinary offer was revealed yesterday in a transcript of talks in
February 2003 between George Bush and the then Spanish Prime Minister Jose
Maria Aznar at the President's Texas ranch." 

"The White House refused to comment on the report last night. But, if
verified, it is certain to raise questions in Washington and London over
whether the costly four-year war could have been averted." 

According to the tapes, Bush told Aznar that whether Saddam was still in
Iraq or not, "We'll be in Baghdad by the end of March."

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