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Saddam suggested $1bn exile JASON WEBB IN MADRID SADDAM Hussein was prepared to take $1 billion and go into exile before the Iraq war, George Bush, the United States president, is said to have told José WMaria Aznar, the then prime minister of Spain, a month before the 2003 invasion. During a meeting at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on 22 February, Mr Bush told Mr Aznar that Saddam could also be assassinated, according to a transcript of their talks published yesterday in the Spanish newspaper El Pais. "The Egyptians are speaking to Saddam Hussein. It seems he's indicated he would be prepared to go into exile if he's allowed to take $1 billion [£500 million] and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction," Mr Bush was quoted as saying. Asked by Mr Aznar whether the Iraqi dictator could really leave, Mr Bush replied: "Yes, that possibility exists. Or he might even be assassinated." Neither Mr Aznar's private foundation nor the National Security Council in Washington would comment on the transcript, which El Pais said had been made by a Spanish diplomat who attended the meeting. In the transcript, Mr Bush talks about pressuring countries that were members of the United Nations Security Council to support a resolution authorising force. But, whatever happened, "we'll be in Baghdad by the end of March", he said. "And [the Russian president Vladimir] Putin should know that his attitude is endangering Russia's relations with the United States. "For my part, I'll try as of now to use the most subtle rhetoric possible, while we try to get the resolution approved." Mr Bush was dismissive about Jacques Chirac, the former French president, saying he "thinks he's Mr Arab", and he described the US as playing a game of "good cop, bad cop" with the former prime minister, Tony Blair. "I don't mind being the bad cop if Blair is the good cop," he said. 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