saddam was open to exile before invasion

the main idea of the topic is that saddam husein signaled he was willing to go into exile as long as he could take with him 1 billion dollar he signaled that 1 month before the invaison of iraq by usa.
President George bush estimated war cost would be around 50$billion reffering to U.S
although BUsh's public position at the time of the meeting was that the door remained open for a diplomatic solution,hundreds of thousands of troops already had been deployed to iraq's border so the war was sure for bush no other solution was possible for him.

my opinion is saddam husein wasn't an inteligent leader because he didn't go into negotiations with u.s