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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
Thanks. Me too...
And all the MSM noise about Iran's prior Nuclear activity was purely just another way they could make Bush look bad. Which also explains since MaObama took over, NOTHING has been said about it since! And MOST of the “progress” they have recently made on their bomb was done under MaObama’s regime.
Reagan fled the field after the Marine barracks bombing - just used a battleship to lob a few rounds down the Bekka Valley and exited the scene. No help there.
So State and White House both opt out of briefings.
Interesting.
Something’s up. Mubarak was going to speak hours ago...maybe it’s too tough to look like you’re in charge while fleeing in a jet? His family is gone- maybe he’s on his way now.
I'm thinking perhaps Mubarak has lost some or all of his military support.
Washington Post is describing it as a pro-democracy movement as well:
The deployment of troops and armored fighting vehicles came after heavily armed riot police battled thousands of protesters across Egypt on Friday in an effort to squelch a burgeoning pro-democracy movement that appeared to be gaining strength.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/25/AR2011012500866.html?hpid=topnews
What strikes me as odd is that we seem to put so few strings on foreign aid. When the government deigns to give us peasants some of our money back, there’s ALWAYS a string attached. They always do it for a particular purpose. Like, tax credits for having kids, for buying a house, a “stimulus payment” to buy a new car and get your “clunker” off the road. Even when they give states money, there’s strings attached, like when they threatened to withhold highway funds if states didn’t raise their drinking age to 21 or drop their DUI standard to .08 percent.
So why don’t they do that with foreign aid? Years ago, we should’ve been saying to Mubarak, “yes, we’ll give you hundreds of millions of dollars, but you WILL do thus and such in terms of freedom of the press, a republican form of government, etc., or the tap gets turned off, period.” I understand we couldn’t do that as easily when the USSR was still around, but nowadays, when we’re the world’s sugar daddy? They want our crack, they dance our tune. They don’t want to do things our way, they can do without our money.
As it is, we’re seeing the logical conclusion of propping up a dictator for 20 years. Yes, Mubarak is “our” despot, and he’s probably better than the alternative, but the Egyptians are in control of their own destiny now, whether we like it or not. Our time to have much control over the outcome is past.
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And mine is the MB will not hold elections - they are a western idea, not in the koran, and are therefore anathema.
Grrrr.
You would have said the same about Reagan I'm sure. Do you people understand there is no “perfect” candidate?
Palin has the right instincts and character. I know she would make a great President; if she can survive the assaults on her character from all sides.
Are there things that I wish were different about her? Absolutely.
Did I see earlier that military were shedding their uniforms and joining in?
I agree, and if they’d quit attacking her (like it is even relevant to this issue..Arizona anyone?) we would quit defending her.
They started it, I wish they would stop:
Don’t start none,
won’t be none.
It’s really simple.
I just saw some college-aged guy on FoxNews talking about how there is “no oil” in Egypt, so access to it isn’t a concern. I was yelling at my TV about the Suez Canal, which this moron didn’t even mention.
I am a little sick of this assertion since it has zero basis in fact. By all accounts that I have read the impetus for this demonstration and the others we are seeing are: Tunisia, Facebook, and Twitter.
Who stands to gain is an entirely different matter.
I think it was the police joining the protests. When the Army arrived, they started fighting the police, as I’m hearing it. Almost sounds as if this is being orchestrated.
Slammed by geopolitical fears sparked by chaos in Egypt and tumbling tech stocks like Amazon.com, the Nasdaq Composite plunged 2.5% and the Dow shed more than 150 points Friday afternoon.
...Traders were monitoring TV screens showing protestors in violent clashes with police in Egypt, which operates the crucial Suez Canal and has benefited from a flood of money pouring into its emerging economy. Signaling the concern, crude oil surged nearly $4, gold leaped 2%, the euro tumbled 1% against the dollar amid a flight to safety and Egypt’s market plunged to two-year lows.
“It’s a highly combustible environment there. When there is such unrest in one of the countries that has been a bridge for peace, it doesn’t bode well. There’s a very uneasy feeling,” said Jason Weisberg, a NYSE trader and senior vice president at Seaport Securities.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/01/28/waiting-gdp-report-futures-pause/#
I'll accept that.
Clinton is a huge part of the problem.
CNN reporter in Egypt saying that MB is taking over the streets but older men trying calm younger guys.
Did you ever think you would see the United States stoop to what it is today? When Reagan left office I thought we were stable for a long time into the future.
Now it seems as if Bible prophecy is leaping off the pages into the headlines.
Yes, the Gog and Magod reference is on my mind. It’s always back there, even though I don’t dwell on it, but I think we really kid ourselves by thinking it couldn’t possibly happen. I’m not project that thought on to you here.
It’s just something to keep in mind.
You have to wonder what all the Israel haters in Europe think about all this. If they think Israel will be the only nation adversely affected, they’re living in an alternate reality.
The US is up to its eyeballs in MB infiltration:
“The Politicization of American Islam”
by Husain Haqqani
Published on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
(See especially the last section of the article)
http://www.currenttrends.org/research/detail/the-politicization-of-american-islam
“The Ground Zero Mosque Developer: Muslim Brotherhood Roots, Radical Dreams” Alyssa A. Lappen
14 May 2010
http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3453
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