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- OptionsTrader, on 10/10/2007, -13/+25I'm sure Fox can masterfully spin this in a positive light.
Don't you worry. - HeroicLife, on 10/10/2007, -9/+18Saddam had billions stashed away already. You'd be an idiot to play that game with him. $ for peace is an old game played by every modern dictator - Saddam, Kim Jong Il, Arafat, etc.
- swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15Come on, imagine the backlash if Bush gave Saddam $1bn. Probably not as bad as the backlash against the war, but seriously, this was never a viable option. Theres way better stuff in the Spanish leaked documents than this.
- mntbikeracer1, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12I can only imagine what you all would have said if he had done this. Hindsight is 20/20 huh, you would have all criticized him much in the same way as you have.
- geekee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Removing Saddam was the easy part. Do you think things would be different now if Saddam had left peacefully? Who would fill the power vacuum. It would have been better for US interests to have done nothing (no war or exile)
- spoiled1, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11have you been drinking crude?
- maxtangent, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10If it takes an idiot to play that game, we had the right President to sit at the table.
- johndi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7"It seems he's indicated he would be prepared to go into exile if he's allowed to take $1billion and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction."
Actually it would have free for us. He wanted to take money he already controlled. However if the report is to be believed he also wanted to take info on WMD. Whether that was evidence of crimes he committed against other Iraqis or information on making more isn't clear. - cocreator10, on 10/10/2007, -7/+11 Didn't I see on PBS that Sadam worked for the CIA from 1959 until 1978?....Fontline,I beleive......
- thebaron2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Are you saying you would have WANTED him to play, max? I don't get it...
Heroic is spot on, here - you don't negotiate with terrorists, whether its a group of people robbing a bank or a dictator bargaining for a free pass. - amoro99, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9>>Remember, he promised to provide the UN with full disclosure of his WMD programs and did not.
Wouldn't that be "We don't have any" Isn't that what he said? You dumbasses still believe there were some, eh? - amsoell, on 04/20/2009, -4/+8Do you really think having Saddam out of Iraq would have prevented the war? Completely misleading headline. Buried.
- billm317, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yes. Saddam and Bin Laden both were once big buddies with the CIA. Saddam was against Iran, which the US supported and Bin Laden was against the Russians, which the US supported. By "big buddies", I mean helped train and fund. Look it up.
- neoform, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5$1Billion for a bad guy to get away, or $1Trillion to kill him and hundreds of thousands more.
- chaskell, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You mean the WMD from the 80's? Those WMD's don't exist anymore.
- edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I would rather live with the criticism than knowing that my country has brutally murdered thousands of innocents in the name of democracy.
- edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2As much as I hate, nay, despise this unnecessary war, I do wonder of the validity of this claim for precisely that - didn't he have billions stashed away?
Then again, maybe this is just a misconception. - edwartica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Cause the slaughter of hundreds is worth less than the corrupt ideal of a couple fat cats.
- RajAtWork, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5so? Bush offered Saddam to leave in his speech two days before the war
- overtoke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Stop polluting the comments. Just click the ***** button and move along.
- nwoantibody, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5Still think Saddam was rock hard on nuking the US and hiding WMDs?
- speerross, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The man who said "This would be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship, so long as I was the dictator" and "I understand small business growth, I was one" is smarter than other people? LMAO. He also has to have words in his speaches phonetically spelled out for him. This is the leader of the 'free' world remember...
- maxtangent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1So, can you also explain the difference between diplomacy and negotiation?
Exchanging oil in return for stopping nuclear development counts as, what, non-extortion? - joel2600, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2it wasn't about giving him anything. he just wanted to keep that much of what he already had.
- Vicujozobenaxod, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4No, it wouldn't have. This was a desperate offer by a desperate man who for decades flaunted his power and thumbed his nose at America and the U.N. When you pull a gun on someone who deserves to get shot, he makes all sorts of bargaining attempts for his life. Saddam knew he was going to die, this was him looking down the barrel of the gun, and we pulled the trigger. ***** the haters.
- DiggOrNotToDigg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5The war would not have taken place if Saddam had offered Bush and his Cronies 1 billion each
- thebaron2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2There's a difference between diplomacy and extortion - asking for a billion dollars for you personal stash falls into the latter category.
- inajeep, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4As someone who believes we shouldn't have gone to war I wouldn't give Saddam a dime.
- sotopheavy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5I am sure they will say that the US government would not fund terrorism (lie) or that saddam needed to be brought to justice, or that he would take his WMD's with him when he left and sell them to the highest bidder
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3That might involve copyright infringement from the U.N. playbook
- maxtangent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah, but it's not Bush's money.
- sovereign3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Obviously a deal like this wouldn't be made to the public. This type of thing happens ALL the time. The reason it works and is still done is because it is done in confidence.
However, I'm not quite sold on a Saddam deal. - joel2600, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3frontline is the reason bush cut funding for the corporation for public broadcasting's budget. and the cycle of injustice continues.
- maxtangent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You mean the way Cheney is making money hand over fist?
- maxtangent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Like saying he WOULDN'T have organized 911?" Are you seriously saying he did??
- overtoke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2But the United States is handing out billions (1000 of them so far) of dollars to 'despots.' The United States is abusing it's own people.
- coldfact, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2If this quote is a good translation, I don't know if he even wanted to be paid off (just take from the Iraqi gov coffers + the money he must have hoarded over the years):
"The Eqyptians are speaking to Saddam Hussein. It seems he's indicated he would be prepared to go into exile if he's allowed to take USD one billion and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction," Bush said. - Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2No I don't, Because I'm sure Bush & Cheney had their hearts set on it either way.
- carabou, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1nice post!
- Thing2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2He also, wasn't a terrorist. Dictator sure, but leader of his own country. And we do negotiate with other countries leader. Especially when we can't bully them into submission - (see: Kim Jong).....
- rkettner, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I recall that as well... but with Bush in power - this was NEVER going to happen.
- Stryder81, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I see said the blind man to the deaf woman. :-)
- pigfister, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2seems he was cia i don't doubt that, funny that in iraq it was a democracy before they sent in American funded terrorists to destabilise the democracy, so they could put their own pro American puppets in place!
- MegaJimmy8, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Yes, Bush would have been endlessly criticized for paying this money to Saddam. BUT 1 million people would also still be alive and hundreds of billions more dollars would have been saved. So really, what's important: how you look or how many people die? We know Bush's answer.
- TrevorBelmont, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Obvious troll is obvious.
- Prelude76, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2glad I'm not the only one that sees the truth. amen to that, bro.
The US went into Iraq for two reasons: Oil and the Zionist Agenda to keep the arabs contained. It wasn't coz of 9/11, it wasn't coz of WMDs, and it certainly wasn't to spread freedom and democracy. And if the war went smoothly, the US would now be in Iran and Syria, not back home. - loganhid, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6yeah, But how will Bush and his Cronies make their profits
- edcrosay, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Well. This is the only one on the front page.
- Prelude76, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1for free???
try $455 billion and counting.... http://www.nationalpriorities.org/Cost-of-War/Cost ... - dinatron72, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Well all I know is sadly nearly a million people have lost their lives because of this bullsh*t war! Try putting a price on that!
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