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I READ a report recently which said that Saddam Hussein offered to step-down if he was paid $1billion.

If this is true and it has not been denied so far why did Bush not just do it quietly?

In financial terms it would have been a cheap solution.

I wonder what the American and British public think about all this given the casualty figures in a war that might have been avoided by simply handing over cash.

It prompts all kinds of speculation.

It seems that minds were made up at an early stage and war was the only option that interested America.