The administration claims it doesn't want to tell Mubarak to leave because it's up to Egyptians. Of course, the U.S. government has defacto interfered in Egypt for years, given Mubarak's regime material support and pressured it on economic and foreign policies. Contrary to the administration's current rhetoric, media reports (not contradicted by the administration) state that the administration is attempting to engineer a transfer of power to Omar Suleiman and other narrow interests -- likely an attempt to keep in place those same economic and foreign policies.