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GOP Members Of Congress Hold Surreal Press Conference In Egypt Thanking Military For Overthrowing...
Business Insider ^ | Brett LoGiurato

Posted on 09/09/2013 4:22:49 PM PDT by sopwith

Republican representatives Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), and Steve King (R-Iowa) held a press conference last week in Egypt, praising and thanking the Egyptian military for a July 3 ouster of what Bachmann called the "common enemy" Muslim Brotherhood.

Via the Washington Post's Max Fisher comes video of the press conference, which is bizarre, to say the least.

Bachmann thanked the Egyptian military for the coup and the military-led government's crackdowns on protests, implying that the Muslim Brotherhood — of which former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was a member — was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"We were cheering in front of our televisions back home in the United States,” Bachmann said, referring to when the Egyptian military overthrew Morsi. "We were cheering for you."

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Iowa; US: Minnesota; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: egypt; iowa; louiegohmert; michelebachmann; minnesota; muslimbrotherhood; obama; steveking; texas
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To: alloysteel

Good analogy!

Both the MB and the Nazis included fanatical gangsters with very few moral restraints.


21 posted on 09/09/2013 6:43:48 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt’s Generals:
‘How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?’
Foreign Policy | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson
Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055253/posts

Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.

[by “anti-government activists” is meant church-burning jihadists]

Sen. Cruz Statement on Egypt (Suspend aid over anti-Muslim Brotherhood ‘coup’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055492/posts

Ted Cruz blames Egyptian violence on Obama’s disregard for foreign aid law
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055589/posts


22 posted on 09/11/2013 5:25:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks sopwith.

Sharpton’s Strange Theory: Blames Beck-Bachmann For Egyptians Pelting Hillary’s Motorcade
NewsBusters | Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 3/27/2013 10:06:48 PM by governsleastgovernsbest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3001495/posts

and, from 7/23/2012 — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2909790/posts

RUSH: Now, folks, one other thing here. Michele Bachmann... Louie Gohmert is one of the other Republicans. They wrote private letters to select individuals asking questions about the security clearance process, and they used Huma Weiner as an illustration. It was not Michele Bachmann who decided to go public with the letters. Now, isn’t this what congressmen on the Intelligence Committee ought to be asking if there are national security violations or problems involved in the security clearance with somebody with such close ties is to avowed enemies?

By the way, the new Egypt president, this Morsi guy, one of the first things he did upon being elected was demand the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheik! No doubt he wants to bring him home to honor him. It wasn’t Bachmann who went public with this. She’s doing her constitutional duties. She’s on the Intelligence Committee, along with Louie Gohmert and the others. It’s McCain that took this public. And now the Democrats are in Minnesota seeing if Bachmann is vulnerable because of what McCain has done.

and some humor from the FRchives:

Palin and Bachmann Nitpicker Chris Matthews Says Panama Canal Is In Egypt
Newsbusters ^ | 1/29/11 | Noel Sheppard
Posted on 1/29/2011 11:27:05 PM by Nachum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2665562/posts


23 posted on 09/11/2013 5:26:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Did you see this civ?

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3064586/posts?page=1

The Revs. Jackson and Sharpton “give me the creeps,” Kennedy writes in a July 5 entry.

“Al Sharpton has done more damage to the black cause than [segregationist Alabama Gov.] George Wallace. He has suffocated the decent black leaders in New York,” he says. “His transparent venal blackmail and extortion schemes taint all black leadership.”


24 posted on 09/11/2013 7:01:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Churchill)
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