Saddam's desperate offers to stave off war Washington dismissed Iraq's peace feelers, including elections and weapons pledge, put forward via diploma
April 8, 2005

Saddam's desperate offers to stave off war

Washington dismissed Iraq's peace feelers, including elections and weapons pledge, put forward via diplomatic channels and US hawk Perle.

In the few weeks before its fall, Iraq's Ba'athist regime made a series of increasingly desperate peace offers to Washington, promising to hold elections and even to allow US troops to search for banned weapons. But the advances were all rejected by the Bush administration, according to intermediaries involved in the talks...read on

When you read this article and listen to Perle talk (I'll have the video from Real Time with him a little later) It makes you want to throw up.

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