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What a mess........
1 posted on 01/28/2011 1:55:43 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Just about over.

3 private jets leave Cairo airport under heavy security; #Egypt parliament speaker to make major announcement - NBC #Jan25 about 1 hour ago via breakingnews.com Retweeted by 100+ people


52 posted on 01/28/2011 2:44:09 PM PST by kinghorse (Good fences make good neighbors. Divert water to the Rio Grande.)
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Contrast this uprising with the attempted uprising in Iran awhile back. Obama didn’t lift a finger to assist the Iranians. This tells me quite clearly Obama wants the middle east controlled by Muslim radicals.


55 posted on 01/28/2011 2:49:46 PM PST by reaganbooster (The democrat party symbol should be the grim reaper instead of the donkey.)
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AMB. JOHN BOLTON: Is Democracy Coming to Egypt at Last?
Fox News ^ | 28 January 2011 | John Bolton (Interview)

Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 2:48:36 PM by The Pack Knight
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2664992/posts

As seen on Fox News Channel’s “Happening Now with Jon Scott and Jenna Lee” on January 28.

FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR JOHN BOLTON: I think what’s clearly happened today [in Egypt] is that the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Islamist party in Egypt has called it’s supporters into the street. I don’t think it was present on the first two or three days.

I think after the Friday prayers the Brotherhood brought its people out. That’s why the protests are even more extensive today. That constitutes no doubt about it a direct threat to the military government, and I think the failure of the other security forces to bring the demonstrations under control also now explains the presence of the military.

Let me be clear here, this is not just the Mubarak-family government. The military has ruled Egypt since Gamal Nasser and they over through King Farook.

It’s the military that is the real government and they are not going to go peacefully.

I think the question is whether and to what extent the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamists have infiltrated the leadership. If the military holds firm it’s entirely possible, although bloody, that the government can hold onto power. That doesn’t necessarily mean Mubarak will be in power, but the military will be, and I think that is why this contrast makes it so important for people to understand, this is not a choice between the Mubarak government on one hand, and sweetness and light, Jeffersonian democracy on the other.

I don’t think we have evidence yet that these demonstrations are necessarily about democracy. You know the old saying, “one person, one vote, one time.” The Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t care about democracy, if they get into power you’re not going to have free and fair elections either.

Egyptian Strife Sends Oil Close To $100 On Suez Canal Closure Fears...
http://blogs.forbes.com/afontevecchia/2011/01/28/egyptian-civil-strife-sends-oil-close-to-100-on-suez-canal-fears/


58 posted on 01/28/2011 2:50:47 PM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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Jimmy helped topple a secular country and leave an Islamic state in place of it, why would you expect Barry to do any differently?


62 posted on 01/28/2011 3:05:12 PM PST by Rashputin (Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
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This story sounds like complete nonsense. How do you equate sending an Egyptian dissident to a “summit for activists” into US goal to undermine a stable regime that was friendly to us. Even the umbrella name “summit for activists” sounds silly.


66 posted on 01/28/2011 3:46:13 PM PST by chuckee
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68 posted on 01/28/2011 3:57:24 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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71 posted on 01/28/2011 4:15:16 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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As much as it gets irritating to hear America being blamed for every cirsis around the world and all peoples’ miseries in the developing world, we have to acknowledge that American foreign policy, and not just under Peanut Man although he of course was the most horrible, has often been Militant Islam’s best friend. The arbitrary backing of certain jihadist terror groups and fomenting chaos in all the wrong places shows we do not understand it.

Although with a large chance of political islamic armies using these moments to launch epic war with Israel, this could simply be the inevitable Biblical end of times. Good thing those of us who know God know how that will end.


81 posted on 01/28/2011 5:55:25 PM PST by emax
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Egypt’s internet was taken down. Isn’t the progressive democrats and Obama trying to get the same power?


91 posted on 01/29/2011 6:02:31 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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So Zero is backing an Islamist Sharia-loving government right on Israel’s border?

The greater caliphate under Iran’s ayatollahs is just what Axelrod and Zero ordered?

BS. They left this mess smoldering and now think they need to make some halfass statement.


92 posted on 01/29/2011 6:06:43 AM PST by OpusatFR
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The stupidity behind this U.S. policy to help topple Mubarak is breathtakingly stupid. I guess the thought has not occurred to Obama and Hillary that they are handing Egypt over to Iran and the Islamists.


93 posted on 01/29/2011 6:10:28 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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