Bush and Abdullah differ over attacking Saddam

President George Bush and key Arab ally, Jordan’s King Abdullah, have disagreed over a possible US attack to topple Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the pace of American peacemaking in the Middle East.

The king yesterday soft-pedalled his opposition to a potential US military strike against Baghdad. But Bush, in an Oval Office photo session with the monarch, made clear he had not changed his mind about considering “all tools” to bring about regime change in Iraq.