''A World Transformed'' is a 1998 book () by former

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George H. W. Bush and

Brent Scowcroft Brent Scowcroft (; March 19, 1925August 6, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer who was a two-time United States National Security Advisor, first under U.S. President Gerald Ford and then under George H. W. Bush. He served as Military As ...

, Bush's

national security advisor A national security advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. The advisor is not usually a member of the government's cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils. National sec ...

, documenting foreign relations during the Bush administration. They explained in 1998 why they failed to go to

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

and remove

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...

's government from power in 1991 during the

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: George H.W. Bush, and Brent Scowcroft. "Why we didn't remove Saddam." ''

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'' (1998).

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''Booknotes'' interview with Bush and Scowcroft on ''A World Transformed'', October 4, 1998.
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