a pic from 32 years ago: Iran in 1979...look familiar?
Posted on 01/30/2011 11:41:02 AM PST by kristinn
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Ms. Jacobs (missed her first name), speaking on CNN said that the U.S. government is chartering planes to evacuate Americans from Egypt, with the first flights scheduled to depart on Monday.
Jacobs urged those with tickets for commercial flights out of Egypt to use those tickets. She also said the State Dept. was bringing in more consular officials to help Americans in Egypt.
Jacobs asked people to not go to the airport yet. She said details would be announced later today.
Jacobs did not say anything about whether the U.S. embassy and consular offices would also be evacuated.
Who are they in danger from?
Seems to me that if Egypt were really on the threshold of democracy they would be safe. Mubarak hasn’t threatened them that I’m aware of.
Why should Americans leave Egypt now? I get the feeling that the worst is behind us and that Mohammed ElBaradei will be taking over in a day or two. If our people have made it through this long then they might as well stay on in Egypt.
And so it was, thirty years ago, during these very months past, that we stormed ministries, prisons and government buildings, sat down in school yards, refused to go to or teach classes, went on strike in factories, oil refineries and petrochemical plants, marched in the streets in hundreds, then thousands, and soon in hundreds of thousands.
The revolution had such a force that even in the most laidback towns, like Shiraz, people started taking to the streets in the tens and hundreds of thousands. In the famously mellow town of our beloved poets Sadi and Haafez, where martial law was declared last and lifted first, I saw hundreds of thousands in the streets and it was a sight to behold.
Link to whole story:
Iranian Revolution's 30th Anniversary
Hussein is clueless....just as Carter was clueless.
Obama and his administration are inept. The U.S. ambassador just said American citizens in Egypt should use the internet to get information on safety!
Yeah, that thing that’s been down since Tuesday.
What idiots. Carter Part Deux.
Do you really think a new Egyptian regime will be friendly to America?? Come on.
Didn't Vice-Idiot Biden just tell those people that Mubarak is not a dictator?
I guess it will be within a week when we see the heliocopters landing on the embassy of the US in Cairo. Another disaster under the auspices of another left wing president.
Frankly, I think (.)bama should fly in and organize the flights out. In fact, as the commander, he should be the last to leave or go down with the ship so to speak.
No and the old one is going to be less friendly if they survive.
At first they will be...you know they are going to want 0bama to send them big buck$ to stabilize them. They need America to get a fresh start...aftyer all, who else in the world would be stupid enough to give them money.
Presdient sputnick WTF.
Wow....I got excited...
of course I read the headline as:
Obama administration evacuates....whitehouse
What took em so long? This Obama/Islamist planned ‘revolt’ in Egypt has been going on for days now!
*ping*
“What took em so long? This Obama/Islamist planned ‘revolt’ in Egypt has been going on for days now!”
Well, Saha’s basketball game and the partying in DC by obama and thugs would have interfered with any plans for US citizen safety.
BEST IDEA OF THE DAY. SEND OBAMA TO MAKE A SPEECH...IN CAIRO.
A George Soros/Muslim Brotherhood production, in cooperation with Organizing for America & SEIU, coming to an economically depressed urban population center near you...
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