President George W Bush said he would order the assassination of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if US forces had "a clear shot," a suburban Chicago newspaper reported Tuesday.
Bush willing to assassinate Saddam: report
Mr Bush reportedly made the remark to Peter Fitzgerald, the Republican Senator for Illinois, during a private conversation aboard Air Force One last month, according to the Daily Herald.
Quizzed by the Herald's editorial board about how the United States might capture and remove Saddam from power without killing thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens, Senator Fitzgerald volunteered these comments:
"I have personally talked to the President about this and if we had intelligence on where he was now, and we had a clear shot to assassinate him, we would probably do that," Senator Fitzgerald told the board Monday.
"President Bush would probably sign an executive order repealing the executive order put in place by President Ford that forbid the assassination of foreign leaders."
Herald reporters later asked Senator Fitzgerald to clarify whether Mr Bush said he would change US policy. Senator Fitzgerald said, "Yes, yes".
Possibly sensing that he had spoken out of turn, the one-term US senator added: "I don't want to betray any confidences of the President.
"I assumed he (Mr Bush) had said that somewhere else. But maybe if he didn't say that anywhere else, I shouldn't have said that just now."
A Senator Fitzgerald aide, reached Tuesday, said the Senator had no comment on the report.
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