Report Says Hussein Was Open To Exile Before 2003 Invasion:
“The Egyptians are talking to Saddam Hussein,” Bush said. “He seems to have indicated he would be open to exile if they would let him take one billion dollars and all the information he wants on weapons of mass destruction.”
I can think of several others I’d happily make the same deal with. But what is this bit on WMD information if there were no WMD?
No, there were no WMD. But Saddam Hussein — to his eternal discredit — worked long and hard to make people think there were. I guess he thought it would make people think twice about invading and deposing him. Oops.
I have heard and read many stupid things that Bush says every day, but this takes the lead. And when he converses in his ranch with the likes of Jose Maria Aznar, and get his information from the likes of Hosni Mubarak, his imagination can go very far.