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Posted on 08/06/2013 10:20:51 AM PDT by maggief
U.S. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham urged Egypt’s military-backed government to release jailed members of the Muslim Brotherhood and called on rival parties in the country to engage in a national dialogue and avoid violence.
McCain and Graham met with top military and civilian leaders in Cairo as part of international efforts to resolve a standoff with supporters of the ousted President Mohammad Mursi.
“Democracy is the only viable path to stability,” said McCain, a former presidential candidate, calling for “an inclusive political process in which all Egyptians are free to participate,” AFP reported.
Both lawmakers referred to the military’s July 3 ouster of Mursi as a “coup,” something their government has been reluctant to do as it would have legal implications for the $1.3 billion dollars (977 million euros) in U.S. aid to Egypt.
“The people who are in charge were not elected, and the people who were elected are now in jail,” Graham told reporters.
“We urge the release of political prisoners,” said McCain, referring to Brotherhood members who have been detained since Mursi’s ouster by the military on July 3, the Associated Press reported.
“In a democracy, you have to talk to each other. It is impossible to talk to somebody in jail,” Graham said.
“The judicial system will deal with this in the future. Jailing opposition is not the exercise of a legitimate power,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
It's like a chapter out of Stephen King's "The Stand".
Arrest McCain for treason. The MB is a terrorist organization. Egypt has awoken to 0bama and his evil minions, why hasn’t America?
I saw that video. Corny, but Americans need to see the hatred 0bama has generated for himself in Egypt.
Would McCain demand the same for Edward Snowden were he as promised, be locked up here in the USA? Thought not....McCain just gathering ink...otherwise his and Graham’s demands are meaningless.
” Egypt has awoken to 0bama and his evil minions, why hasn’t America?”
No free press.
Obama told Linda and McStain to tell the Egyptians that it was a “coupe.”
Are they nuts?
Or on the take?
Which should we expect from one of the Keating 5?
It is highly disturbing to watch these pyles of garbage continue to aid the enemy.
They know the muzziebrotherhood is sharia right?
The hate and vile contempt I have for all of them helping sharia and being in the senate has no bounds.
Our forefathers would have been shooting by now.
Insanity.
I saw McCain on the news the other night answering a question from a reporter in the halls of congress, and I can’t quite put my finger on it, but he sounded exactly like a man who was being blackmailed into saying something, so said what he was told to, but without any compassion or conviction.
I have an idea Linda and Juan ... why don’t you two move to a muzzie country and be a muzzie politician for them ?
Definitely a weird and hard to grasp concept for members of the US Oligarchy. Some countries actually jail their politicians when they turn out to be crooks.
Appeasement works briefly, then follows the deluge.
Definitely corny to an American audience and possibly even a bit corny for an Egyptian audience but it has the homemade flavor of a TEA Party type protest video. I don’t know for sure but I suspect it resonates very well in Egypt.
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