Egypt denies Mubarak swayed Bush on grounds to invade Iraq

[sabra]

Source: AFP

CAIRO — Egypt denied on Sunday that President Hosni Mubarak had swayed his then US counterpart George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003 because its leader Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Soleiman Awad, spokesman for the president's office, "categorically denied" Mubarak had told Bush the Iraqi president had such weapons, the grounds used to invade but which turned out to be false, the official news agency MENA said.

In his memoirs, "Decision Points," Bush says Mubarak had warned Tommy Franks, then the US commander of troops in the Middle East, that "Iraq had biological weapons and was certain to use them on our troops."

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On the contrary, insisted Awad, Mubarak had "cautioned the US president and many other US officials whom he met against an invasion of Iraq, warning it would constitute a flagrant violation of international law."

He had predicted "an invasion would not be an easy mission because it would provoke fierce resistance during which Iraq would use all the arms at its disposal," added Awad, without mention of weapons of mass destruction.

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[Stuart G]

1. Another Bush statement proved to be a lie..nt

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, sabra.

[goforit]

3. ROFLMAO!!!! This will incentivise Nations to take him to the Haige

[Brother Buzz]

4. Dimes to donuts says Bush didn't even know who Hosni Mubarak was...

in the months leading up to the invasion, let alone the notion he was president of a sovereign nation.

[mazzarro]

5. Something Cautions Me Against Believing Either Of These Two

I think that they are both lying and that the both mutually convinced each other that they can get away with the invasion. Mubarak was no friend of Saddam Hussein just as much as Shrub was. I think they both lied to their people about their intentions.