Egyptian President Mubarak: I told Bush sr. in '91 to drop plan to charge Baghdad

[sabra]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=§ion=middleeast&xfile=data/middleeast/2007/January/middleeast_January104.xml

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The Egyptian president also revealed in the interview that he had convinced the United States to drop a plan -- promoted by US general Norman Schwarzkopf -- to charge into Baghdad during the first Gulf war in 1991 and arrest Saddam Hussein.

“I firmly warned against the plan and said to them: this could well inflame the situation in the Arab world,” he said. “When President George Bush (senior) heard this warning and advice, he backed off and the whole matter ended there.”

A close ally to the United States, Egypt was a major participant in the coalition against Iraq in the first US-led war against Iraq in 1990, but declined to be involved in the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam’s regime.

[Greeby]

1. A Bush actually listening to sound advice?

That's almost an alien concept to a young'un like me