Does the Coase theorem hold even for Saddam Hussein?

Less than a month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein signaled that he was willing to go into exile as long as he could take
with him $1 billion and information on weapons of mass destruction,
according to a report of a Feb. 22, 2003, meeting between President Bushand his Spanish counterpart published by a Spanish newspaper yesterday.

Here is the story; admittedly it is hard to judge the truthfulness of this report but in probabilistic terms it does not raise my estimate of whether the Coase theorem applies to President Bush.