Long read but very much worth it.

"As the drums of war sounded in America, Egyptians believed that we could not accept a foreign invasion of another Arab country. We were furious that our government, which was allied with the United States, allowed American and British warships to sail through the Suez Canal toward Iraq. I had an intuition that if the United States attacked Iraq, Egyptians would take to the streets."

There is so much irony in that paragraph combined with the title it is hard to know where to begin.

And what became of Egypt is also really not quite what he intended.