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2011-02-05 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Appeasing one's enemies at the expense of one's friends (such as they are). Genius, pure genius.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-02-05 05:44|| 2011-02-05 05:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Because of this, Egypt is no longer an American Allie. Hold Obama accountable.

Posted by Shaving Poodle7392 2011-02-05 09:29|| 2011-02-05 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Murbarak was VP and standing in the same reviewing box with Anwar Sadat when the assassins killed the President, 10 others, and wounded 28 to include Murbarak. Betcha the panty waist academics and bureaucrats in the Beltway forget that. Issue another sternly worded paper warning to the man. Yep, that's the ticket. /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-05 09:38|| 2011-02-05 09:38|| Front Page Top

#4 It's quite possible that Omar Suleiman is the one making all the decisions---including involving Mubarak's person---right now, P2k.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-02-05 11:20|| 2011-02-05 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Since when does Bummer get to say who rules Egypt?

And I wonder how those 27 European Union leaders would like it if Mubarak started making pronouncements on their internal affairs?

Bummer's plan to set up a US puppet smacks of the worst kind of jingoistic meddling. It sounds like the best possible way to make damn sure that Suleiman is seen as a tool of the West and is thoroughly despised on the Arab street. I don't see how that helps.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-02-05 12:51|| 2011-02-05 12:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Betcha the panty waist academics and bureaucrats in the Beltway forget that. Along with virtually everyone else commenting on this issue. 'The Arab street' -- weren't they the same ones who were dancing & celebrating mass murder on 9/11/2001? Aren't they the ones always itching for jihad, lynching for blasphemy, and the whole panoply of traditional Islamic abuse of humanity?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-05 16:53|| 2011-02-05 16:53|| Front Page Top

#7 CNN this Guam AM > GUEST ME PERT > acknowledged that the Muslim Brotherhood = Radicalists should not be underestimated as per exploiting + "hijacking" the claims or sentiments of the pro-Reform/Democratic Protestors in order to get elected but then usurp Political Power at a later time, once anti-Islamist elements are effectively cowed or eliminated???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-05 22:30|| 2011-02-05 22:30|| Front Page Top

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