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Posted on 01/28/2011 9:14:48 AM PST by SE Mom
From FOX:
DEVELOPING: Loud explosions and gunfire were heard in the Egyptian capital of Cairo Friday, as protesters demanding the removal of President Hosni Mubarak defied a curfew, Al Jazeera reported. Egyptian television reports the ruling party headquarters in Cairo are on fire.
From TWITTER:
WashingtonPost: Clinton: We urge #Egypt authorities to allow peaceful protest, reverse unprecedented steps it has taken to cut off communications less than 20 seconds ago
Go get a little something to eat and take a nap. It will be another couple of hours before the 4 PM curfew when we’ll learn just how serious Mubarak is..
Pretty amazing no one can see how screwed up foreign service is now that these novies are in charge.
Hillary and her minions were caught completely unaware of the middle east fiascos.
Obama says little, Biden too much.
The middle east burns!
These academics are hilarious!
Can’t. Sniffles, congestion, a little sick. Allergies out of control. And I’m fixated on all this news, too. Had a bunch of coffee, hoping the caffeine would open the blood vessels and clear my sinuses. All it did was wake me up so I can feel the ickiness of all this congestion. I’m waiting for the nearby pharmacy to open so I can get some REAL Nyquil. THEN sleep.
I’m glued to the news, though.
Ahmadinejad Awaits the Hidden Imam
As I said, 0bama is much weaker or potentially much more dangerous I pray it is the former, but there is a deep seated fear it is the latter.
All that is hidden about 0bama, 0bama's narcissism and thirst to retain and regain power, his Israel attitude, his snubbing western dignitaries, his embracing China last week, the reports at the beginning of the year about his mental instability.
0bama a useful tool or the twelfth imam?
I understand. All of us, as well, are fixated on the news. May your rest time, when it comes, be a deep refreshing sleep, void of the news. Rest well, I pray.
We do not have a President who will lead that independence.
Wonderful link. God bless America!
No question that The Zero wil do nothing, but people are tired of this fool.
Maybe we need the streets filled.
Exactly what he wants...
From AJ: Muslim Brotherhood calls for peaceful transfer of power.
I thought MB wasn’t involved.... heh.
So we do nothing while the leftists continue to consolidate power?
I agree. Bush had an almost naive and innocent vision of the Middle East as a place where what people really, really wanted was a nice civil democracy like ours. Therefore he believed in encouraging movements that resisted the endemic tyranny of ME governments.
But he was completely unrealistic about the ME and the impact of Islam. Islam is a totalitarian political system which sees itsself as the one and only, and which also wishes to impose itself on the entire world, starting with places where it has a history and was once powerful. As soon as the secular dictator lifts his hand, Islam takes over and the state of the population is worse than it was before.
Saddam was a horrible dictator, but people were not being blown up every day by Muslim groups warring for control of this now Islamic state. The US press has even stopped reporting these bombings (there was one this morning that killed some 20 people, and it wasn't the first one this week) because the truth doesn't make Islam look very good and fully reveals our mistake in letting the Iraqi constitution enshrine Islam and letting Iraq be an "Islamic republic." There's no such thing. Islam is tyranny, and unfortunately, the only thing that keeps it from taking over a country is the heavy hand of power.
I think we could probably have enforced a few good years there, but it would have meant taking out people like Mookie, preventing the reestablishment of these Islamist groups, monitoring the mosques and removing those leaders we didn't like...in essence, a dictatorship, even if a benign one. We didn't do that, and now the Islamics are busy taking over places that we "liberated" - look at Afghanistan preparing to put people to death for converting to Christianity.
It's a horribly complicated situation. Now, however, we have a president who loves Islamic dictatorships, so perhaps if nothing else that will at least streamline the process.
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by TheTomCarter
RT@ajtalk CONFIRMED: EGYPTIAN MILITARY ABANDONS THE BORDERS BETWEEN GAZA AND EGYPT #Jan25 #Jan28 #Rafah #Gaza #Mubarak #Police #Cairo
Syria has shut down internet. Not sure how long their net has been down. A few days, I think.
-——The Zero wil do nothing——
He said he was on the phone with Mubarak for half an hour. (he didn’t say how much of that was on hold though)
He apparently was doing something
You’re right. Bush was sadly naive: a regular risk when one’s pride is identified with ‘compassionate Christianity’, if you will.
Sadam was indeed unsavory, but the ME would be a different place today if we had focused half as much attention and treasure on Iran as we have on Iraq.
A realistic, Palinesque dedication to energy independence would have altered the situation as well.
This may be the most frightening news of all. Ezekiel 38 looms. All we need now is for Russia to join the party....
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