Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:21:09 -0600
Subject: Re: HAB: solidarity: Rumsfeld backs plan to exile Saddam



from The Independent News, London:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=370978

Jerry Shepperd

Rumsfeld backs plan to exile Saddam
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles

20 January 2003

The United States said yesterday it would not pursue Saddam Hussein for war
crimes if he relinquished power quietly and went into exile =96 a scenario
that would remove the threat of war from the Middle East.

Donald Rumsfeld, the usually hawkish Defence Secretary, told a television
interviewer he considered the immunity- for-exile option a "fair trade" for
the sake of peace. It seemed highly unlikely, however, that President
Saddam would take him up on the offer, making his words a largely
rhetorical gesture at a time when the Bush administration is being heavily
criticised for its apparent determination to go to war. "To avoid war, I
... personally would recommend that some provision be made so that the
senior leadership in that country and their families could be provided
haven in some other country," Mr Rumsfeld told ABC.




At 03:34 PM 1/20/2003 +0000, matthew piscioneri wrote:

>Dear Bob,
>
>I agree with your call for solidarity from this List on the point of
>expressing a moral position against the infliction of war on the Iraqi people.
>Hussein would appear  to be angling for a fairly substantial pay off
>(including immunity from prosecution for war crimes) as recompense for
>services past provided to the U.S. So, pension him and his cronies off.
>Let them enjoy the road to Damascus. It's a win-win outcome IMO. Peace and
>pragmatism.
>
>All the best,
>
>MattP.
>
>
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