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Just as Bush's deadline for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expired in 2003, airstrikes were ordered to possibly take out Saddam at a location he was rumored to be at inside of Baghdad. They took place and failed to kill the dictator. It has been said by Bush administration officials that if Hussein had been killed in the first hour of the fighting that an invasion would not have been necessary. What could have happened if Saddam and his sons were killed in an airstrike before coalition troops began the ground war?