Donald Rumsfeld, the former US Secretary of Defense, said that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein offered a $60 million bounty for anyone who could kill his two daughters, he said on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Former President George W. Bush’s two daughters also had a bounty on their heads, Rumsfeld said.
“I was concerned,” he said on the show. Rumsfeld said that he was told of the bounty during a 2003 National Security Meeting.
“Of course the president and his family had Secret Service protection. My family did not. And it was a somewhat awkward moment in the meeting,” Rumsfeld said.
Bush told Rumsfeld to take the threats seriously. US forces killed both of Hussein’s sons in 2003.
“I made a comment like ‘Thank you’ or something and president Bush looked me in the eye and said ‘You better take this seriously,’” the former defense secretary said.
Rumsfeld was on the show to talk about his memoir “Known and Unknown,” the title of which is in reference to a famous speech he gave in 2002 regarding Iraq’s supply of weapons of mass destruction.
Former President George W. Bush’s two daughters also had a bounty on their heads, Rumsfeld said.
“I was concerned,” he said on the show. Rumsfeld said that he was told of the bounty during a 2003 National Security Meeting.
“Of course the president and his family had Secret Service protection. My family did not. And it was a somewhat awkward moment in the meeting,” Rumsfeld said.
Bush told Rumsfeld to take the threats seriously. US forces killed both of Hussein’s sons in 2003.
“I made a comment like ‘Thank you’ or something and president Bush looked me in the eye and said ‘You better take this seriously,’” the former defense secretary said.
Rumsfeld was on the show to talk about his memoir “Known and Unknown,” the title of which is in reference to a famous speech he gave in 2002 regarding Iraq’s supply of weapons of mass destruction.
