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Just what has Mubarak done to Egypt that is so bad? I know they have 1/2 the people making extremely low wages. Is is Mubarack's fault or is it just the way it is? What natural resources does Egypt have? What opportunities for income? If they count on mainly tourist dollars that could be way down because of the times. We all knew what a monster Saddam Hussein was. He was a murdering tyrant. I haven't heard anything like this about Mubarack.

Could it be that much of this has been stirred up in a Saul Alinsky kind of way on purpose to topple the government and let the lowest elements take over, the elements that are anti America and anti Israel? Egypt has over 85 million people so it wouldn't be too hard to get a million of them to protest and riot.

Just what has Mubarak done to Egypt that is so bad?

The police for once, rivals the commie units of yore (the GRU for example). Mubarak developed a torture police primarily to suppress the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1980s partly because that appeased us and garnered funds and also because one of the M.B assasinated the previous President. At some level this seems fine since the M.B. are hardly pleasant. The problem is that he gradually rotated the police around so everyone was torture police and the target no longer remained the M.B. The police in Egypt is super violent, corrupt and arbitrary and there is no escape from them, whether you are middle-class or poor or M.B. I have a friend who works in an American firm in Cairo and he has loads of stories that he hears from the locals(though he is personally protected being a US citizen and all). This isn't just an economic issue....The problem is that Egypt has Two bad guys, Mubarak and the M.B and one of them is/has been supported by us.