US Suggests Assassination of Iraqi Leader

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US Suggests Assassination of Iraqi Leader

The Bush administration suggested an assassination of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Tuesday, saying it would be cheaper if the Iraqi leader were assassinated or went into exile.

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The Bush administration suggested an assassination of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein Tuesday, saying it would be cheaper if the Iraqi leader were assassinated or went into exile.

Asked about a Congressional Budget Office estimates that deploying troops to Iraq could cost more than 9 billion dollars a month, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said: "I can only say that the cost of a one-way ticket is substantially less than that.The cost of one bullet, the Iraqi people taking it on themselves, is substantially less than that."

But the spokesman later said he was only making a rhetorical point by saying that as US law bars assassinating foreign leaders.

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