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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

further from your link:

Egypt played a key role during the 1990-91 Gulf crisis. President Mubarak helped assemble the international coalition and deployed 35,000 Egyptian troops against Iraq to liberate Kuwait. The Egyptian contingent was the third-largest in the coalition forces, after the U.S. and U.K. In the aftermath of the Gulf war, Egypt signed the Damascus declaration with Syria and the Gulf states to strengthen Gulf security. Egypt continues to contribute regularly to UN peacekeeping missions, most recently in East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. In August 2004, Egypt was actively engaged in seeking a solution to the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, including the dispatch of military monitors. Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Egypt, which has itself been the target of terrorist attacks, has been a key supporter of U.S. efforts against terrorists and terrorist organizations such as Osama bin Ladin and al-Qaeda, and actively supported the Iraqi Governing Council, as well as the subsequent government of Prime Minister Allawi. In July 2005, terrorists attacked the Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheikh. In the same month, Egypt’s envoy to Iraq was assassinated...


109 posted on 02/10/2011 8:20:22 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

I turned on ABC news a few minutes ago; long enough to see that they were reporting the people on the ground in Egypt wanted CHANGE and were trying to take the building that airs the state media.

It made me sick. Not one mention of Obama and Clinton’s muslim brotherhood radicals. It also made me wonder WHO watches ABC,CBS,MSNBC anymore other than DUmmies?
When will their lack of ratings shut down Obama’s state run media of the MSM?


112 posted on 02/11/2011 4:51:17 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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