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Egypt unrest: Hosni Mubarak must stay - US envoy [Obama Massive Fail]
BBC News ^ | Feb. 5, 2011 | staff

Posted on 02/05/2011 10:46:39 AM PST by SvenMagnussen

US special envoy Frank Wisner has said that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should remain in power to oversee a transition to democracy.

The remarks appear to contradict previous US calls for Mr Mubarak to begin an immediate transition.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bambi; carterredux; egypt; egyptcrisis; foreignpolicy; haitiredux; israel; kenyanbornmoslem; mubarak; muslimbrotherhood; obama; obameltdown; warforterror; waronterror; wisner
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To: Melchior

Wisner’s father, Frank Wisner Sr., was the CIA agent portrayed in the film The Good Shepherd. Wisner was previously married to Christine de Ganay, former wife of Pal Sarkozy, the father of French president Nicolas Sarkozy.


81 posted on 02/05/2011 1:06:48 PM PST by kabar
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To: SvenMagnussen

Every time Obama butts his arrogant head into another power structure, he starts demanding other people remove themselves from their positions of authority because Obama happens to have his idea.

It’s as if he thinks he is Obe one Kenobi and projects his thinking into the mind of his opponent unopposed, as though his will of volition overcomes all other thinking souls.

They used to lock people away in straight jackets for that sort of behavior.


82 posted on 02/05/2011 1:07:33 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: r9etb

In an attempt to throw water on Wisner’s remarks we have this from the BBC:

2043: US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley: “We have great respect for Frank Wisner and we were deeply appreciative of his willingness to travel to Egypt last week. He has not continued in any official capacity following the trip. The views he expressed today are his own. He did not coordinate his comments with the U.S. government.”


83 posted on 02/05/2011 1:07:53 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Palmetto Patriot
Thanks for the article. It makes him look almost Nixonian. If it is accurate, these are dangerous times indeed.

You are welcome. But BHO is much, much worse than Nixon. Nixon, wherever his shortcomings as president, was an American and did indeed love his county. I view BHO as a alien interloper bent upon diminishing all that has made America a great nation. He is an absolute disaster as president.

84 posted on 02/05/2011 1:08:41 PM PST by Blennos
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To: Palmetto Patriot

It does make one wonder what kind of convincing and persuasion Barry’s team had to dance through to get him to reverse course. One doesn’t imagine Barry was pleased—or that it was pleasant to be one of the messengers.


85 posted on 02/05/2011 1:08:48 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Eva
how the Egyptian protesters have been carrying this on for ten days without any porta potties, food supplies or roofs over their heads

They do need food and water, the others are purely optional in a third world country.

86 posted on 02/05/2011 1:11:34 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: cripplecreek
Who’s in charge at the White House? Hopefully a janitor or something. They usually have some common sense.

I vote for the garbageman. He can do math and stuff.


87 posted on 02/05/2011 1:12:11 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (What used to be called treason is now official US foreign policy.)
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To: Mygirlsmom
short/concise....i,ve known "some" engineers like that.
love your tagline. :)

88 posted on 02/05/2011 1:21:30 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (You do not have to smear (Imam) Obama w/ lies....the truth does a fine job. 8^)
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To: SE Mom

That’s not just being thrown under the bus, that’s being thrown under, then pulled out and thrown under again, then putting the bus in reverse and backing up a few times.

What is going on???

Also, notice how the media isn’t mentioning the report from the UK about how Obama betrayed British nat’l security and strategic interests to the Russians? That should be front page news.


89 posted on 02/05/2011 1:27:33 PM PST by jeltz25
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To: Melchior
makes one proud to be an American. Where lies can be replaced with truth, even if one is simply an adviser.
90 posted on 02/05/2011 1:28:54 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Crawdad

Mubarak is probably asking for more time to rock the casbah


91 posted on 02/05/2011 1:29:51 PM PST by jeltz25
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To: cookcounty

“””Wisner and Hillary probably went to Munich because they have no communication with Mubaraek except through an intermediary like Germany or Britain.”””


Great way to put it.


92 posted on 02/05/2011 1:43:05 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: SE Mom

Thanks for finding this-—
2043: US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley: “We have great respect for Frank Wisner and we were deeply appreciative of his willingness to travel to Egypt last week. He has not continued in any official capacity following the trip. The views he expressed today are his own. He did not coordinate his comments with the U.S. government.”


93 posted on 02/05/2011 1:45:56 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: SE Mom

Ha? I guess the NYTimes will have to update its story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06egypt.html?hp


94 posted on 02/05/2011 1:46:11 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Rational Thought

A bunch of unamerican communist con men jihadi- symps


95 posted on 02/05/2011 1:50:44 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Mouton

Someone just might be missing from the next group photo atop Lenin’s tomb.


96 posted on 02/05/2011 1:51:41 PM PST by JPG (Work for conservative change like your country depended on it.)
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To: Rational Thought

Who’s in charge at the White House?

Valerie Jarrett - The Persian Princess.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/11/the_valerie_jarrett_story_name.html


97 posted on 02/05/2011 2:15:42 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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98 posted on 02/05/2011 4:09:55 PM PST by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: SJackson

Hosni, use the secret escape tunnel and tell the sub you’re on your way. The Obamabots have just assured your doom.


99 posted on 02/05/2011 4:44:04 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Godwin1
Wisner was Bush's envoy to the partition of Serbia in 2008 and recognition of Kosovo as an independent state.

He also had served as an executive for Enron and AIG.

A member in good standing of the ruling class.

100 posted on 02/05/2011 4:48:47 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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