Mubarak out

[rightwinger]

Do you think if Americans rioted in the streets for weeks on end that Obama would resign? I doubt it, but he sure seemed to think that Mubarak had to.

I know..


Think of the poor TeaTards rioting because they have to buy healthcare?

The Egyptians don't know how good they have it

 

[Samson]

Do you think if Americans rioted in the streets for weeks on end that Obama would resign? I doubt it, but he sure seemed to think that Mubarak had to.

Why would we riot?

Isn't it simpler to wait until November 2012 and simply vote for a competent leader?

 

[Martin35]

Mubarak is the 1st Egyption leader to leave office alive since 1953, maybe this is progress??

 

[JimH52]

Hey, Ike called and he wants you to refrain from using the "Domino Theory" to describe Iraq, Egypt, etc.

He says it never happened in "IndoChina," and there's no reason to believe it will happen in the Middle East.

Want to get a pool together?

I got Syria

Ok I'll take Iran

It won't happen. The ruling religious nuts would kill everyone in the country before they would give up power. Honestly, just a few months ago, we were given a good preview or how the Iranians would react to a similar uprising. People were simply killed or arrested. The Green Party does not have enough followers at this point.

 

[JimH52]

Mubarak picked the new president.

So I don't see any real change coming to Egypt.

Only when an Islamic political organization controls the government.

And all treaties with Israel are revoked.

Will the people of Egypt finally control their nation and destiny.

Please return to the underside of your rock. You are wasting oxygen for the rest of us.

 

[Jon]

Think of the poor TeaTards rioting because they have to buy healthcare?

Yeah, forcing a free people to participate in an economical exchange. That will sure show capitalists!

Oh wait...

 

[Jon]

Do you think if Americans rioted in the streets for weeks on end that Obama would resign? I doubt it, but he sure seemed to think that Mubarak had to.

Why would we riot?

Isn't it simpler to wait until November 2012 and simply vote for a competent leader?

The Egyptians also elected Mubarak. They had buyer's remorse, so does America.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Do you think if Americans rioted in the streets for weeks on end that Obama would resign? I doubt it, but he sure seemed to think that Mubarak had to.

Why would we riot?

Isn't it simpler to wait until November 2012 and simply vote for a competent leader?

What competent leader did we get a chance to vote for in the last election?

Or the one before that?

 

[rightwinger]

Think of the poor TeaTards rioting because they have to buy healthcare?

Yeah, forcing a free people to participate in an economical exchange. That will sure show capitalists!

Oh wait...

Don't blame me...I wanted the public option

 

[California Girl]

Do you think if Americans rioted in the streets for weeks on end that Obama would resign? I doubt it, but he sure seemed to think that Mubarak had to.

I know..


Think of the poor TeaTards rioting because they have to buy healthcare?

The Egyptians don't know how good they have it

Most of them already have healthcare insurance. What they object to is being told they 'have to' buy insurance. Our government does not have the power to force Americans to buy a product or service. Please grasp that one, simple, basic concept.

 

[Jon]

Do you think if Americans rioted in the streets for weeks on end that Obama would resign? I doubt it, but he sure seemed to think that Mubarak had to.

I know..


Think of the poor TeaTards rioting because they have to buy healthcare?

The Egyptians don't know how good they have it

Most of them already have healthcare insurance. What they object to is being told they 'have to' buy insurance. Our government does not have the power to force Americans to buy a product or service. Please grasp that one, simple, basic concept.

But CG! Insurance companies are evil! We need to stop them from making money...by making everyone buy their products.

 

[rightwinger]

Do you think if Americans rioted in the streets for weeks on end that Obama would resign? I doubt it, but he sure seemed to think that Mubarak had to.

I know..

Think of the poor TeaTards rioting because they have to buy healthcare?

The Egyptians don't know how good they have it

Most of them already have healthcare insurance. What they object to is being told they 'have to' buy insurance. Our government does not have the power to force Americans to buy a product or service. Please grasp that one, simple, basic concept.

Looks like the courts will have to decide that one

I'm sure the Egyptians are shocked at this loss of freedom

 

[California Girl]

I know..

Think of the poor TeaTards rioting because they have to buy healthcare?

The Egyptians don't know how good they have it

Most of them already have healthcare insurance. What they object to is being told they 'have to' buy insurance. Our government does not have the power to force Americans to buy a product or service. Please grasp that one, simple, basic concept.

Looks like the courts will have to decide that one

I'm sure the Egyptians are shocked at this loss of freedom

I'm quietly confident that the Egyptians don't give a shit about our healthcare. I'm also quietly confident that you don't give a shit about our Constitution or freedom.

 

[rightwinger]

Most of them already have healthcare insurance. What they object to is being told they 'have to' buy insurance. Our government does not have the power to force Americans to buy a product or service. Please grasp that one, simple, basic concept.

Looks like the courts will have to decide that one

I'm sure the Egyptians are shocked at this loss of freedom

I'm quietly confident that the Egyptians don't give a shit about our healthcare. I'm also quietly confident that you don't give a shit about our Constitution or freedom.

I have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution

Have you?

 

[Big Fitz]

Hmmmm looks like the islamofascists have won another state in which to try and harm the west and force into a war like stance with Israel.

Oh how wonderful! It's all about freedom... as far as the imam's will let them with their fatwas.

How does Mubarak Out = Islamofascists In?

You're drinking the Mubarak Cool Aid.

Watch the demands of the Muslim Brotherhood. They've wanted a total world caliphate as well as continue the crusade against the west.

These guys have been going towards these goals since they were formed in the 1920's.

Mubarak may have been a lousy president, but at least he wasn't an islamofascist and saw the benefits of peace with Israel. My problem isn't the fact that Mubarak is gone, it's who has a strong chance of being in charge.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - dey gonna end up puttin' him back in office...

Mubarak, Egypt's toppled Pharaoh, is free after final charges dropped
Fri Mar 24, 2017 | Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, was freed on Friday after six years in detention, his lawyer said.

The 88-year-old was cleared of the final murder charges against him this month, after facing trial in a litany of cases ranging from corruption to the killing of protesters whose 18-day revolt stunned the world and ended his 30-year rule. "Yes, he is now in his home in Heliopolis," Mubarak's lawyer, Farid El Deeb told Reuters when asked if Mubarak had left Maadi Military hospital in southern Cairo where he had been detained. Heliopolis is an upscale neighborhood where the main presidential palace from which Mubarak once governed is located. Mubarak was initially arrested in April 2011, two months after leaving office, and has since been held in prison and in military hospitals under heavy guard.

Many Egyptians who lived through his presidency view it as a period of stagnation, autocracy and crony capitalism. Arabs watched enraptured when the first images of the former air force commander, Egypt's modern-day Pharaoh, were beamed live on television, showing him bed-bound in his courtroom cage. The overthrow of Mubarak, one of a series of military men to rule Egypt since the 1952 abolition of the monarchy, embodied the hopes of the Arab Spring uprisings that shook autocrats from Tunisia to the Gulf and briefly raised hopes of a new era of democracy and social justice. His release takes that journey full circle, marking what his critics say is the return of the old order to Egypt, where authorities have crushed Mubarak's enemies in the Muslim Brotherhood, killing hundreds and jailing thousands, while his allies regain influence.

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak looks towards his supporters during celebrations of the 43rd anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, at Maadi military hospital on the outskirts of Cairo​

Another military man, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, stepped into Mubarak's shoes in 2013 when he overthrew Mohamed Mursi, the Brotherhood official who won Egypt's first free election after the uprising. A year later, Sisi won a presidential election in which the Brotherhood, now banned, could not participate. The liberal and leftist opposition, at the forefront of the 2011 protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, is under pressure and in disarray.

Years of political tumult and worsening security have hit the economy, just as Mubarak always warned. Egyptians complain of empty pockets and rumbling bellies as inflation exceeds 30 percent and the government tightens its belt in return for loans from the International Monetary Fund. "The economic crisis we are living in and the high prices take priority over everything, as does the fear of terrorism. That is what preoccupies ordinary citizens, not Mubarak," said Khaled Dawoud, an opposition politician who opposed the Islamists but also condemned the bloody crackdown on them. "When you see the group of people who show up and cheer and support him, you are talking about 150, 200 people," he said, referring to occasional shows of support outside the Maadi hospital when Mubarak was there.

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