Obama, shit or get off the pot
Husni Mubarak has decided to defy Barack Obama and to rally available police and population control forces against the mobs of revolutionaries. Rocks, bricks and mounted agents of the government are attacking the crowds. In his televised announcement of his own withdrawal from public life Mubarak accused the demonstrators of "abuse of freedom of speech," "lawlessness," criminality" etc. and said that these "criminal elements" must be "punished" before elections can be held.
President Obama has engaged the policy and prestige of the United States on the side of the revolutionaries. Such commitment should not be withdrawn else the world will rightly conclude that the bravery and dedication of American troops as demonstrated in Iraq and Afghanistan is once again sadly matched by the fecklessness of American government.
This poses a major dilemma for the Obama Administration because the Zionist friends of the president (both American and Israeli) are giving them conflicting guidance. The neo-con Zionists simultaneously want to see their Jacobin dream of revolution come to fruition and also to see the continuation of the "cold peace" between Israel and Egypt. The Israelis seem to have a clearer vision. They want their allies in Egypt kept in power.
Having gone this far the US has little choice but to remember its own revolutionary tradition, to stand by the men and women in the streets and to tell the Egyptian Army that the time has come to choose its own future and that of Egypt. If the generals; Omar Suleiman, Tantawi and Shafik wish to stand by Mubarak, they will have made a fateful error. pl
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 19:04,
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Only in America
Could a revolt in another country halfway round the world be twisted to a referendum on their president.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 19:31,
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Where the fuck are the kittens
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Pew Pew Pew! Lasers! wannabe Gong Farmer, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 19:37,
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Not even
a dog on a skateboard
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Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 19:51,
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