Posted on 01/27/2011 2:42:13 PM PST by Pan_Yan
Many in Egypt are accusing Mohamed ElBaradei of being a latecomer but in the end flight MS 798 from Vienna landed in Cairo 15 minutes ahead of schedule, carrying with it a man ready to assume the presidency.
Egypt's beleaguered regime was waiting. Dozens of metal traffic barriers manned by plainclothes state security officers had been erected throughout the terminal to block the public from mobbing ElBaradei when he arrived, but they proved no match for the media scrum as the 68-year-old emerged with his wife. "Will you be on the streets tomorrow?" screamed one journalist. "Doctor ElBaradei, the people of Egypt need you tomorrow," yelled a passer-by in Arabic.
Hemmed in by a throng of cameras, ElBaradei had little choice but to give an impromptu press conference.
"This is a critical time in the life of Egypt and I have come to participate with the Egyptian people," he said. "The regime has not been listening.
"If people, in particular young people, if they want me to lead the transition, I will not let them down. My priority right now ... is to see a new regime and to see a new Egypt through peaceful transition.
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"Is he coming for a photoshoot, or does he actually have something to offer? The fact is he's done nothing concrete; the Egyptian people in the last 48 hours actually have done something, something which has shaken this regime far more than anything ElBaradei has ever done. Whatever happens from now on it will be nothing to do with ElBaradei; if he does get involved it will just look shallow and crass."
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The Islamic hardliners in Iran used moderates as the face of the revolution in the beginning to gain credibility. Within a few months they were up against the wall.
You are correct, Sir. And just like then we have Jimmy Carter in the White House.
OK, so what happened to Mubarak? Is he still around and is he going to go for this!
Just as in Russia, the more moderate Mensheviks, paved the way for the Bolsheviks.
This guy is just the banker hack that the globalists will put in place to make sure nothing changes.
Autocratic leaders are sometimes necessary as a bulwark against communism, and now, Islamofascism. Franco, Pinochet, the Shah. Don’t call them dictators. They have nothing in common with tyrants like Stalin and Lenin.
Ha! I remember that part of his official title was
“strutting cock who leaves no hen untouched..”.
I can think of a couple of hens he might have made an exception for.
As head of the IAEA, this UN hack caved to the Pakistanis, the North Koreans, Iran, Saddam...you name it, he caved to it.
Just the kind of stout fellow who will stand up to the Muslim Brotherhood.
South Africa comes to mind as well, Russia 1917, so many regimes not quite powerful enough to overcome the mobs, and later the carpetbaggers. So they revolt and not knowing what it takes for freedom, they saddle themselves with worse for another twenty years or much much longer.
"Franco, Pinochet, the Shah. Dont call them dictators. They have nothing in common with tyrants like Stalin and Lenin."This is intellectually dishonest. They have a lot in common with other tyrants, including a repressive secret police apparatus, suppression of dissent and not honoring individual rights.
Ma people make me GOD... and i appreciate it whole lot!!!
Good times hello...
“I don’t think it was worth the estimated upwards of half a million people he and his cronies butchered. “
And ate their livers!
Mubarek = Shah
El Baradei = Bani Sadr
??? = Khomeni
Golly Golly Miss Molly. Where is Boutros Boutros?
"This is a critical time in the life of Egypt and I have come to participate with the Egyptian people," he said. "The regime has not been listening. If people, in particular young people, if they want me to lead the transition, I will not let them down. My priority right now ... is to see a new regime and to see a new Egypt through peaceful transition."Nothing like having a strong sense of self-worth, eh? Thanks Pan_Yan.
Yep. The names Bani-Sadr and Gotbzadeh come to mind.
Do not for a minute forget that ElBaradei is and has always been Iran’s pet Poodle!
> Just as in Russia, the more moderate Mensheviks, paved
> the way for the Bolsheviks.
Oh, they paved the way, all right, because the “Mensheviks” who did not escape to exile became part of the pavement.
“Menshevik” means “minority” in Russian.
“Bolshevik” means “majority”.
The communist revolutionary savages called themselves the “majority”. They cynically accused the Kerensky Provisional Government of representing a “minority” of the Russian people.
Bolshevism, as I understand it is, the cynical application of language to foster a change in perceptions among the people. Like what the Nazi Party did in Germany. Like what the DemonRAT party does here.
Much of what we see acted out in the DemonRAT party is just Bolshevik theater.
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