Posted on 02/09/2011 5:04:38 PM PST by Sub-Driver
White House, State Department move to end Egypt confusion
W.H., State move to end Egypt confusion By: Josh Gerstein February 9, 2011 07:28 PM EST
The White House is moving to stamp out reports that top officials — including Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — are sending conflicting signals about how best to resolve the crisis in Egypt.
On Wednesday, the White House and the State Department staged a 50-minute conference call for reporters Wednesday to insist that the administration’s messages on the standoff between embattled President Hosni Mubarak and demonstrators demanding his ouster have been consistent both in public — and private.
“We’ve been very closely aligned and coordinated as a national security team and will continue to do so in the future,” Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications, told reporters.
Talk of a rift in the administration over Egypt picked up in recent days after Clinton seemed to offer support for Vice President Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s hand-picked lieutenant, as someone who could see Egypt through to elections in September. “It’s important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian government actually headed by now-Vice President Omar Suleiman,” Clinton told a security conference in Germany Saturday.
On Tuesday, amidst reports that the administration was promoting the longtime Egyptian intelligence chief as a stabilizing figure, Biden spoke with Suleiman, but White House descriptions of the call didn’t include Suleiman’s specific role. “Vice President Biden urged that the transition produce immediate, irreversible progress that responds to the aspirations of the Egyptian people,” according to the so-called readout of the call.
Rhodes insisted to reporters Wednesday there was no disconnect, and that Clinton was not giving Suleiman the nod.
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Forward, STOP. No, move left..no, we mean move right. Wait, jump up...no, no, no, don’t jump. Yep, they are all on the same page. Snort.
So they're going to work on having fewer than six contradictory positions on the subject? LOL
Mark Steyn said it best. After quoting the Pres. the VP and four other administration officials giving six different positions he said "just call the WH and the answering machine will direct you to push 1 through 6 depending on which position on Egypt you prefer."
“Vice President Biden urged that the transition produce immediate, irreversible progress...”
Immediate. Check. He just stepped down. Irreversible. Check. He can’t step back up and the military’s in control again. Progress? Two out of three ain’t bad.
Oops. My bad. He’s staying AND the military is taking over. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2671729/posts. The confusion continues.
Thanks for the ping!
This is such a lame bunch of misfits, idiots, and power hungry commie/socialist liars. As old granny used to say,”They don’t know their ( Biblical) arse from an apple cart.”
Reference bump! ;-)
It already happened. The Saudis bankrolled the Egyptian government and the military yesterday. The WH ignored the Saudis so the Saudis went ahead and did what they told the WH they were going to do anyway.
They’re not awful, they’re incompetent.
We look at them as incompetant because we would not be acting as they are. Team islam in the white house is putting out wildly different messages so that whatever the outcome, his media can claim that they were on top of the situation.
But behind the scenes, they are giving the islamists the green light to go about their jihad with the knowledge that obama will not object.
Whether obama is a muslim or not, his loyalties are with radical islam not with the USA.
Really sick and frightening that a major political party would put this guy on the ballot. Proves my point that the dimrat party’s loyalty is to their party only and not to the very country that allows them the freedoms they enjoy.
Is that why there were immediate reports of the King’s death all over the press?
The King’s death isn’t even confirmed.
I know. That’s why I asked rhetorically. It seemed like a warning to King Abdullah.
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