UK Daily Mail reports story that could rock America to its core.
CofCC.org News Team
A major newspaper in the United Kingdom is reporting that Saddam Hussein offered to go into exile in exchange for $1 Billion US dollars. An amount that equals 1/300th what the United States has spent on the War in Iraq so far, and would have required zero American fatalities.
Prior to the invasion, about a dozen countries offered Saddam Hussein safe haven in an effort to stop the war. Members of the Bush administration publicly praised the offers. Donald Rumsfeld is quoted in a January 2003 BBC article saying he would be “delighted†if the Iraqi leadership left Iraq with their families for safe haven somewhere else. Rumsfeld stated, “I think that that would be a fair trade to avoid a war.”
However, the UK Daily Mail and the Spanish newspaper El Pais are now reporting that transcripts of a conversation between Bush and the former Prime Minister of Spain during a meeting at Bush’s ranch in February, show a completely different policy. Bush appears to reject an offer by Hussein to leave the country.
If verified, the story could rock American politics to its core.
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