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US-Egypt alliance on verge of collapse
Press TV ^ | Fri, Aug 9, 2013 | By Youssef Ibrahim

Posted on 08/10/2013 7:30:51 PM PDT by upchuck

In a cascade of mutual recriminations over the past three days, President Mansour and his prime minister, Hazem Biblawi, described two senior American senators, sent as emissaries of President Barak Obama, as “delusional” and “liars.”

The two senators arrived with demands to release all Muslim Brotherhood leaders being held under arrest and to integrate the party into the new revolutionary government. Otherwise, they warned, the Obama administration will cutoff all financial and military aid to Egypt.

Spokesmen for both the presidency and the prime minister immediately took umbrage, joined by an array of press commentators, who accused the two Americans, Senators McCain and Graham, of “manufacturing facts” and of “unwelcome interference in Egypt’s internal affairs.” The flagship Egyptian newspaper, Al Ahram, said the senators engaged in “foolish statements that are unacceptable.”

Following a press conference in which Mr. McCain threatened sanctions, the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current party, Hamdeen Sabahi, who is a co-leader of the ruling National Salvation Front, described Mr. McCain as “a senile old man.”

On the streets, nationalist sentiment was not far behind. The ‘’Rebel Movement’’ is pitching a new drive titled ‘’Say No to US Aid’’, which runs at $ 1.5 billion a year. So grave is the situation that military sources told Reuters on Wednesday that Egypt may call off critical joint military maneuvers code-named Bright Star.

Bright Star, which has been taking place since 1981, comprises the largest such exercises in the region. The exercises have been jointly led by America and Egypt, with participation of Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and sometimes Turkey.

The confrontation emerging between the Obama administration and Egypt represents a startling collapse for a president who, in Mr. Obama, made his first presidential demarche a speech at Cairo reaching out to the Muslim world. Now the confrontation threatens to destroy the foundation of regional, military, intelligence and anti-terror alliances built over decades...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abedin; caliphateagenda; egypt; egyptcoup; egyptmb; mccain; meddling; muslimbrotherhood; obama
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nobama is Mr. Teflon, but how does he escape this. Mistake after mistake after mistake. McCain and Linda Graham mocked and called liars.

How can it get any better?

1 posted on 08/10/2013 7:30:51 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Well done Obama.


2 posted on 08/10/2013 7:32:04 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: upchuck
They certainly tagged McCain accurately.
3 posted on 08/10/2013 7:32:39 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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"..two senior American senators, sent as emissaries of President Barak Obama, as “delusional” and “liars.” ..."

Sounds like very Queer behavior to me.

4 posted on 08/10/2013 7:33:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: upchuck

This is crazy. I don’t think of the Egyptians as bosom buddies, but to blow whatever relationship you have (while sending them billions in bribes, er aid) over that MB jerk Morsi is amateur hour bag-over-your-head-unknown-comic/diplomat incompetence.


5 posted on 08/10/2013 7:33:23 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; ColdOne; DesScorp; G.Love; gruntSGT; ...
The Egyptians say McCain and Linda are delusional liars.

We know better :)

Bet they were glad to get out of there.

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6 posted on 08/10/2013 7:33:57 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: upchuck
hahahaha

John and Lindsey should have to pay for their own trips.
7 posted on 08/10/2013 7:35:17 PM PDT by novemberslady (Texas For President)
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To: upchuck

Obama —REALLY making the USA more respected in the world..!

Russia loves us, too, now!


8 posted on 08/10/2013 7:35:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: upchuck
Obama isn't Teflon, he is Flubber.

Things don't just slide off him, they bounce off and accelerate in the opposite direction. The Limbaugh Theorem if you will.

McCain and Graham are like Stalin's Useful Idiots. The same ones that were imprisoned in the Gulags and cried when they heard Uncle Joe Stalin died.

9 posted on 08/10/2013 7:35:40 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (They can follow the Communist, I'll follow the Constitution...)
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Any legit US-Egypt alliance went out the door with Mubarak.


10 posted on 08/10/2013 7:35:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: upchuck

This has got to be satire.


11 posted on 08/10/2013 7:36:18 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: upchuck

Is there any country in this world that Obama hasn’t pissed off?

By the way McCain and Linda Graham ARE liars, and traitors to their party too.


12 posted on 08/10/2013 7:36:39 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: smokingfrog

For most people in America, alliance with Egypt is pretty much past tense.


13 posted on 08/10/2013 7:38:04 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: upchuck
...President Mansour and his prime minister, Hazem Biblawi, described two senior American senators, sent as emissaries of President Barak Obama, as “delusional” and “liars.”

Sounds pretty realistic to me.

14 posted on 08/10/2013 7:38:17 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: upchuck

Don’t worry, my president (Putin) will step in and fix things.


15 posted on 08/10/2013 7:39:19 PM PDT by gotribe (Vladimir Putin is MY President)
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To: novemberslady

Something else 0bama can blame on the republicans.


16 posted on 08/10/2013 7:39:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: oldbrowser
I thought so as well until I read this excerpt:

Following a press conference in which Mr. McCain threatened sanctions, the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current party, Hamdeen Sabahi, who is a co-leader of the ruling National Salvation Front, described Mr. McCain as “a senile old man.”

Mr. Sabahi sure has that part pegged right.

17 posted on 08/10/2013 7:40:23 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: upchuck

Counting down the days till Egypt expels US personnel and invites in Russian “advisors”.


18 posted on 08/10/2013 7:41:10 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Jet Jaguar
Well done Obama.

You stole my comment!

19 posted on 08/10/2013 7:43:04 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: smokingfrog

Something else 0bama can blame on the republicans.


Exactly, McCain and Graham will patsies who will be scapegoated by Obama in a heartbeat.

How stupid do you have to be to NOT see this coming?


20 posted on 08/10/2013 7:43:12 PM PDT by rbg81
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