Scott Horton

Because there was a Saudi businessman, pardon me, a Lebanese businessman, I think, that they tried to get to intervene as well, who again offered virtually total capitulation.

And Pearl told him, tell Saddam, we'll see you in Baghdad.

after he was attempting to essentially unconditionally surrender.

The same thing happened with Iran in 2003.

Right after America invaded, they issued what was called the Golden Offer, which the Bush administration buried, and they castigated the Swiss ambassador who had delivered it.

But in the Golden Offer, and you can find the PDF file of it online, they talk about, we're happy to negotiate with you

our entire nuclear program, which didn't even really exist yet, but nuclearization.

We're willing to negotiate with you about Afghanistan and Iraq, because again, they hated Saddam Hussein and wanted rid of him too.

So they're perfectly happy to work with us on Afghanistan and Iraq.

And they had captured a bunch of bin Ladenites and they were willing to trade them for the MEK.

And that included one of bin Laden's sons and another guy named Atef.

both of whom the Iranians held under house arrest for years.

And it was only in the, I think, late Obama.

They were willing to negotiate a trade.

Between these dangerous bin Laden nights in the M.E.K.

and America refused to negotiate that.

And it was years later when the bin Laden nights abducted some Iranian diplomats in Pakistan that they then traded them away to get their diplomats back.

And Atef, I think bin Laden's son ended up being killed not long after that Hamza.

But and Atef, too.

But both of those dangerous terrorists were released and were involved in terrorism between then.