US, Europe fear Arab revolt ‘contagion’: analysts

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, January 30, 2011 14:58 EST
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PARIS — The United States and Europe are raising pressure for democratic reform in Egypt but face a tricky task amid fears that the violent unrest there could spread far beyond its borders, analysts say.

The United States on Sunday raised pressure on Egypt’s long-time President Hosni Mubarak, its closest ally in the Arab world, to make reforms. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an “orderly transition” to democracy.

Denis Bauchard of the French International Relations Institute (IFRI) said US President “Barack Obama has taken the lead, calling for political reform, without sparing Mubarak, and that’s quite smart.”

Clinton went further on Sunday, saying that Mubarak’s move to name his first ever vice-president and a new premier was not nearly enough to answer the concerns of his people.

“We’re trying to promote an orderly transition and change that will respond to the legitimate grievances of the Egyptian people which the protests are all about,” Clinton told CBS television news.

She urged the government and the military “to do what is necessary to facilitate that kind of orderly transition,” apparently implying that Mubarak, who has ruled for nearly 30 years, should not run in September’s presidential polls.

Britain, France and Germany also spoke out jointly on Saturday over the street clashes that have left at least 125 people dead.

“We urge President Mubarak to embark on a process of transformation which should be reflected in a broad-based government and in free and fair elections,” the three countries said in a statement.

Previously, the Europeans and Americans had acted with “great caution” that was tantamount to “support for the regime”, said Didier Billion, an expert at Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) in Paris.

“One of the lessons here is that we need to be on the right side of history in these countries,” said US Senator John McCain, who lost his 2008 White House bid to Obama.

“We need to do a better job of emphasizing and arguing strenuously for human rights,” he said on the CNN news channel.

“You can’t have autocratic regimes last forever. The longer they last, the more explosive the results.”

Paris had also taken a cautious line during similar unrest in its former colony Tunisia, not turning against authoritarian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali until after he was driven out.

The Tunisian uprising set a precedent for the region that has now recurred in Egypt — a bigger, more strategically important country.

Another IRIS analyst, Pascal Boniface, said Tunisia created a “generic model” for challenging authoritarian governments, which could be reprised “in Africa, Asia, anywhere repressive powers dominate and appear worn out”.

Obama made a key speech in Cairo in 2009, shortly after his election, pledging to reach out to the Arab world.

Since then however, optimism has waned amid setbacks to US efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Now the stakes are high for the United States in managing the crisis in its top regional ally Egypt. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have backed Mubarak.

“Egypt remains a major pawn in the Middle East,” said Billion. The West fears “a domino effect if Mubarak falls, with a protest movement that could grow across the world.”

With long-time leaders such as Mubarak, Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi, Ali Abdallah Saleh of Yemen and numerous leaders in sub-Saharan Africa racking up decades in power, observers see potentially historic change looming.

“The African continent is at a special moment in its history, with 22 presidential and legislative elections due in the coming year,” said one senior French official who asked not to be named.

“It is not a good time for dictators,” he added. “This could be contagious.”

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  • Ma’at

    Of course they are afraid. Tyranny never lasts. It my exist for a relatively long time, but it always collapses. Those who support the TeaBag approach to government, and that includes a lot of Dems, best take heed.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps this is a sign that democracy will come to the USA. I can imagine that bankers, investors, and CEOs are not the least bit happy. Maybe we will all learn to stand like an Egyptian.

  • Anonymous

    or walk like one :)

  • Anonymous

    Can’t argue for human rights while violating those rights. Bush destroyed any credibility of the USA to speak for human rights and the corporate take over has destroyed our credibility to speak for the people. As they say, “If you lie down with dogs, you’ll rise up with fleas”. If we are going to preach human rights to others, we need first to embrace those rights ourselves in our own country. If the corporatists imagine that they can impose their reality upon an unwilling citizenry, it might be a good time to give that plan another think and to reconsider the value of having a government in which the people feel that their interests are relevant. Control from the outside is inefficient and cannot hold for ever. Eventually the masses rise and shake off the burden of the privileged and the corrupt.

  • Anonymous

    I agree and look forward to taking Democracy back from the Ruling Elite.

  • Knot

    Marching against the dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, or the UAE would bring the full force of the US and the EU down on the demonstrations. If there were protesters outside either a Saudi palace or a Dubai corporate banking center, you can be sure they would be called terrorists and the ROE would allow shooting them in the head.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NJCCIALXZS6QQW6QSNNW5NKLHU sbc

    The Americans still don’t get it. The Egyptian people does not America to control there revolution, and as far Mr. Mubarak and his friends go it’s over. The beautiful thing that is happening is a revolution by the people and for the people without outside interference.

  • http://twitter.com/Covert4Liberty Brimstone Hill

    Talk about arrogant……..These poor people, part of the bastion of civilization are not going to give 2 shits about what Billary Clinton has to say.
    These people are tired of the US Banker Controlled Imperialist meddling in their affairs, the puppet politicians America installs and the killing and maiming of their people.
    America, through our elected oligarch has become the most 2 faced rogue nation in history.
    How the fuck do these brain dead Plutocrats expect foreigners to trust them when we here in America know that everything our ordained panjandrums spew from their collective mouth is Bull Shit.
    The US is looking to install another puppet in order to build bases and yet add another garrison to it’s greed for OIL domination.

  • Anonymous

    True comments for sure, but the painful past and painful present of many Middle Eastern citizens look to the US either way. It’s double edge sword. They are looking for our Gov’t to stay out of their affairs, but they also want to hold the US somewhat accountable for their misfortunes.

    The US has dirtied it’s appeal to many Middle Easterners. They want the US to let go of them, but would struggle, I think, to let go of the US.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    No, shit, Sherlock! Of course they’re afraid which is the reason why they’re running military drills all over the place such as the one my son witnessed on Friday when the subway was overtaken by the military in full gear and with assault rifles.

    I was watching Michael Moore’s “Capitalism, A Love Story” a while back and one particular scene stroke me particularly as representative of their fear. They were filming a wimpy protest on Wall Street and the camera went up to the buildings, for a fleeting moment, the leeches can be seen thru the glass and they are afraid. The fear can be seen thru the glass and the camera. I was amazed when I saw that. All 10 people protesting below were unaware of their power. I can’t imagine what those rats would do if all the millions of American who are unemployed, underemployed, homeless and without health insurance take to the streets and demand that Wall Street be held accountable.

    Nice dream, eh?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    I agree. She is quite sickening. When is she going to shut the fuck up already?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Amerikans are not the Egyptians. It will never happen. They may take to the streets but only to demand that their government order them to wear shackles which they will gladly put on themselves.

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  • Anonymous

    Things are REALLY upside down … if Republicans are now saying they’re IN FAVOR OF sissy-things like “human rights”.

    Pretty weird, huh ?

  • Anonymous

    Watch out House of Saud, you could be next.

  • Taleisin

    I don’t think the Egyptian people are sitting at home watching CNN to get guidance from American politicians at the moment. Still, it is important that people like Hillary and McCain act like leaders and share their wisdom and insights with us. Otherwise we might think for ourselves.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EHJJXSTSSOCXLTSQBUVIDYUF7M Dave

    The vast amount of money and effort spent by the US upper-class on propaganda is a clear message that they are scared to death of the masses.

    Remember they are a very tiny minority. There is no reason this small group of dirtbags should be dictating the terms of how the economy is run. The american public had better start to make their move soon or they are going to look pretty cowardly compared to what is going on in more repressive countries in the middle-east.

    Always remember that, at it’s heart, this is a class-war.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Hey, why would the US and Europe be worried? Things are soooooooo wonderful here. Besides, even if they weren’t (which I’m not saying they aren’t), it would just be temporary. I mean, look at that, we’ve got democracy up the wazoo…oh, no, wait that may be the middle finger of that TSA goon…Oh, sorry, I digress. The FBI looks over us when we sleep, they keep us safe from those rascally “terrorists” with plastic bombs. Our jobs are coming back any day now. We just voted a brand new Congress in and they’re working really quick to lighten our load of laziness and entitlements. Heavens, just think how much more stronger we’re going to be thank to them. No entitlements, no laziness, no nothing. So, again, I cannot possibly understand why they would be worried. They’re so good to us, they even keep our money safe from ourselves cause lord knows we don’t know how to do that. So, things are good. Really. Nothing to worry about.

    On a different note, it’s not just the Western leeches that are worried. Their Zionist brethren are holding their collective ass with two hands. And they can’t ever say that they didn’t know. Those of us who have been watching events unfold have been saying that, one day, they’re going to have to respond for what they have. Looks like that day maybe closer than any of us really thought:

    Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends in Mideast
    Without Egypt’s Mubarak and with relations with Turkey in shambles, Israel will be forced to court new potential allies.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/without-egypt-israel-will-be-left-with-no-friends-in-mideast-1.339926

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Have you been paying any attention to the corporate media? Sickening! A couple of headlines on Yahoo and NYT, all highlighting rioting, looting and chaos. So, yes, they are scared and that’s how they’re sending a message to the sheep to stay down.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Hillary act like a leader… ha ha! She can’t act in any other fashion than what she is: the Wicked Witch of the West. Or maybe the wicked stepmother in Cinderella.

  • http://twitter.com/jerseyblueboy Karim Walker

    The West is worried because new leaders in the Mid-East might serve the people and not the West.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EHJJXSTSSOCXLTSQBUVIDYUF7M Dave

    I don’t give the corporate media my eyeballs anymore. I don’t watch TV and as a rule try to avoid media owned by rich people to the best of my ability. There are exceptions. For example at the NYT i will read Krugman.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    You’re the better for it. The NYT is the worst ragtag of them all. I do keep an eye on the newsprint as I learned a long time how to read between the lines. The propaganda they put out gives me an inside into what they’re planning to do and how. It’s always good to know what the enemy is up to.

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  • Anonymous

    Tax the rich!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Listen to the people U.S. Government, tax the rich, cut the deficit and cut foreign aid to dictatorships. You do this and we will cut the deficit in half in no time…

  • Anonymous

    I donty think your an idiot anymore Johnny Warbucks. I know you are. You tell the world your story man, you keep telling it.

  • Anonymous

    Is all about food supplies, there is not enough for all…

  • Anonymous

    oh yea, reading between the lines hey. More like reading what you want to read out of the artical. Thats called psychosis you loon.

  • Anonymous

    I hope that’s true but the neo-cons also engineer revolutions on an as needed basis. So we’ll have to wait and see who comes out on top.

  • http://twitter.com/miscellany101 miscellany101

    What chutzpah: “”It is not a good time for dictators,” he added. “This could be contagious.”

    This coming from a man whose country dictates what religious expression people can and cannot adopt. Would that the such a notion as overthrowing dictatorial regimes start in his own country!

  • http://twitter.com/miscellany101 miscellany101

    What chutzpah: “”It is not a good time for dictators,” he added. “This could be contagious.”

    This coming from a man whose country dictates what religious expression people can and cannot adopt. Would that the such a notion as overthrowing dictatorial regimes start in his own country!

  • Anonymous

    Good for you, Dave! I watch TV generally twice a year, once during the US Figure Skating Championships (Yay Ryan Bradley!) and again during the World Championships. I will watch Europeans if they deign to show it. And I have to admit that I watch One Life To Live daily because it’s hard to give up a habit of over 40 years, but I catch OLTL on YouTube so I don’t see their disgusting advertisements. Otherwise, my “tv” watching consists of old movies and tv shows on DVD. I get my news from the internet, which is the only place I trust anymore.

    Just watched the incredible movie Network again after not seeing it for many years. So glad I took Howard Beale’s advice and turned off my tv years ago. Everyone should!

  • Anonymous

    Good for you, Dave! I watch TV generally twice a year, once during the US Figure Skating Championships (Yay Ryan Bradley!) and again during the World Championships. I will watch Europeans if they deign to show it. And I have to admit that I watch One Life To Live daily because it’s hard to give up a habit of over 40 years, but I catch OLTL on YouTube so I don’t see their disgusting advertisements. Otherwise, my “tv” watching consists of old movies and tv shows on DVD. I get my news from the internet, which is the only place I trust anymore.

    Just watched the incredible movie Network again after not seeing it for many years. So glad I took Howard Beale’s advice and turned off my tv years ago. Everyone should!

  • Anonymous

    She’s the least successful secretary of state since Condaleeza Rice.

  • Anonymous

    She’s the least successful secretary of state since Condaleeza Rice.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EHJJXSTSSOCXLTSQBUVIDYUF7M Dave

    Screw off sonny

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EHJJXSTSSOCXLTSQBUVIDYUF7M Dave

    Screw off sonny

  • Taleisin

    It’s all bullshit, mate. My whine is with the politicians all sprouting advice for us to hear. Do you really thing the Egyptian ruling class are sitting around asking, ‘Gee, what advice would Obama give us?’

    My only gripe about Billary is that she inspired the TV show, The Good Wife.

  • Taleisin

    It’s all bullshit, mate. My whine is with the politicians all sprouting advice for us to hear. Do you really thing the Egyptian ruling class are sitting around asking, ‘Gee, what advice would Obama give us?’

    My only gripe about Billary is that she inspired the TV show, The Good Wife.

  • Anonymous

    Hopefully, this will prove more contagious than the common cold.

  • Anonymous

    Hopefully, this will prove more contagious than the common cold.

  • Anonymous

    Dick Gregory’s take on the media was “They tell you one of three things. What they did to you; what they’re doing to you or what they’re going to do to you”.

  • Anonymous

    Dick Gregory’s take on the media was “They tell you one of three things. What they did to you; what they’re doing to you or what they’re going to do to you”.

  • dula

    Well, at least now many of those Muslim females in France won’t have to stage their own revolution from the oppression of Islamic tradition.

  • dula

    Well, at least now many of those Muslim females in France won’t have to stage their own revolution from the oppression of Islamic tradition.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    On broadcast news today they interviewed some guy who said they had food riots every 5-7 years in Egypt.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    On broadcast news today they interviewed some guy who said they had food riots every 5-7 years in Egypt.

  • Anonymous

    “One of the lessons here is that we need to be on the right side of history in these countries,” said US Senator John McCain, who lost his 2008 White House bid to Obama.

    “We need to do a better job of emphasizing and arguing strenuously for human rights,” he said on the CNN news channel.

    “You can’t have autocratic regimes last forever. The longer they last, the more explosive the results.”

    Holy shit. McCain’s self-delusion is Olympian. It’s like there are no clues at all in his world.

  • Anonymous

    “One of the lessons here is that we need to be on the right side of history in these countries,” said US Senator John McCain, who lost his 2008 White House bid to Obama.

    “We need to do a better job of emphasizing and arguing strenuously for human rights,” he said on the CNN news channel.

    “You can’t have autocratic regimes last forever. The longer they last, the more explosive the results.”

    Holy shit. McCain’s self-delusion is Olympian. It’s like there are no clues at all in his world.

  • Anonymous

    Who ever takes over is going to want the billion and one half dollars in foreign aid to keep flowing. Warbucks says what he would like to happen, but reality suggests even increased U.S. foreign aid to both Egypt and Israel.

  • Anonymous

    Who ever takes over is going to want the billion and one half dollars in foreign aid to keep flowing. Warbucks says what he would like to happen, but reality suggests even increased U.S. foreign aid to both Egypt and Israel.

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  • Anonymous

    oh i see now that john mccain is a big supporter of human rights…(i doubt if he extends those human rights to anyone in iraq since he voted for the war and all the funding ever since, and for all the military aid to egypt the last few decades he’s been in office. oh and I forgot about his great support for gay rights too. blah blah john blah blah.) …..

    ……..and that also now “we need to be on the right side of history”…….oh yeah, right. really really right. right wing that is. what a gas bag he is.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/42THFKXIPMJHQBIH6OPI4RVIDY Thebes

    The “tricky task” facing the US State Department is how to go on supporting this THUG who just appointed a TORTURER as his VP.

    Must be hard to lie that much to even the Amerikan people!

    Bastion of democracy? What disingenuous bullshit that’s become!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/42THFKXIPMJHQBIH6OPI4RVIDY Thebes

    EAT the rich!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/42THFKXIPMJHQBIH6OPI4RVIDY Thebes

    Betcha the USA would intervene in that one!

  • Anonymous

    It’s a scary time for the US, and for Israel, because all our Muslim “friends” in the Middle East are dictators. What happens if this grassroots movement (unlike the Koch Bros’ Teabagger AstroTurf) spreads into Saudi Arabia?

    Be afraid, America. Be very very afraid.

  • http://thebrainpolice.blogspot.com microdot

    Yes, statement by the “un named” French official and the persons desire to remain anonymous is very telling. I’m sure Sarkozy’s acid reflux has kicked in again.

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  • Balthazars Rebellion

    It’s just a scarey time for Israel and certain Zionists and Israel firsters within US government.

  • valles

    The French are leery of corporate religions that are close in their worship to the Maffia-they have already bought up the USA establishment and thus practice their con-tricks freely.

  • Anonymous

    “One of the lessons here is that we need to be on the right side of history in these countries,” said US Senator John McCain. Yes,indeedy. We can establish a Maginot Line of combined Israeli/American Aremed Forces on the Southern Border of Israel. Troops can be easily redeployed from Iraq and for once we can acquiesce to superior Israeli Tactics: Massive Modern Armor punching through peasant masses . By the recent pictures it would appear the Egypt only has repainted Soviet Armour.Additionally, we would have total control of the Suez Canal. Might be the first step in restoring U.s. sovereignty over the Panama Canal!!!

  • SnobsandBitches

    I must regret to inform you that you are banned for threatening a poster & advocating censorship

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Q7G2NHLD62L3CDU7VHFZ4QPVQM Unknown

    America always spouts off about how it wants A democractic Middle East/ Africa: Bull-####. Whats the West wants is a bunch of easily manipulated puppet regimes to keep the gas/oil/mineral wealth flowing (Human Rights be damned). Whats happening in the ME scares them to death, they’ve invested close to a trillion dollars over the past 50 years into propping up these dictatorships and now it looks like their investments are about to go belly up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Q7G2NHLD62L3CDU7VHFZ4QPVQM Unknown

    America always spouts off about how it wants A democractic Middle East/ Africa: Bull-####. Whats the West wants is a bunch of easily manipulated puppet regimes to keep the gas/oil/mineral wealth flowing (Human Rights be damned). Whats happening in the ME scares them to death, they’ve invested close to a trillion dollars over the past 50 years into propping up these dictatorships and now it looks like their investments are about to go belly up.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    If he could only see the “media” today, he’d change his mind about that. Today, it’s all about misinformation, disinformation and brainwashing. They only tell you what they want you to think.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    If he could only see the “media” today, he’d change his mind about that. Today, it’s all about misinformation, disinformation and brainwashing. They only tell you what they want you to think.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    You had me at “artical”

  • Johnny Warbucks

    You had me at “artical”

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Muuuaaa haaa… There’s a quotable quote.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    I dislike her thoroughly. Her voice, the tone she takes and the shit she spews pierces thru my brain like a power drill. ~augh!~

    And I disagree with you on this one, the elites of the world are all joined at the hip. Yes, I do believe that the ones in Cairo are asking the ones here what to do as well as the ones in Israel, the UK and the rest of the ME. They’re all in this together. They know that it’s only a matter of time before the revolution comes to their neck of the woods. Except for the Amerikans, of course.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    This, coming from the rocket scientist who spells artical instead of article and donty instead of don’t. He he he…

    You keep spelling, man, you keep on spelling.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    At least until the Empire crumbles. Or is that not happening either?

  • Taleisin

    This old guy has been in power for 30 years. Obama is new kid on the block. Obama will never know what this guy knows. But then, I don’t know what these buggers get up to.

    I am sure your elite are watching carefully. If Mubarak is successful, you can bet your bottom dollar those techniques will be used in America. If he is unsuccessful, they may use worse.

    As for Hillary. The reason Bill lied, wasn’t because he wanted to cheat the American people. He was afraid of her. She would have had his guts for garters and he knew it. Women talk about equality. When do us men get that kind of power?

  • Taleisin

    This old guy has been in power for 30 years. Obama is new kid on the block. Obama will never know what this guy knows. But then, I don’t know what these buggers get up to.

    I am sure your elite are watching carefully. If Mubarak is successful, you can bet your bottom dollar those techniques will be used in America. If he is unsuccessful, they may use worse.

    As for Hillary. The reason Bill lied, wasn’t because he wanted to cheat the American people. He was afraid of her. She would have had his guts for garters and he knew it. Women talk about equality. When do us men get that kind of power?

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  • Anonymous

    When you have nothing to say, attack the grammer!

    So weak man.

  • Anonymous

    Hey DAVE, what are you the sidekick or Warbucks alt account so he has someone to agree with him?

  • Anonymous

    Thats all you got is a grammer error. You have 6000 posts on here and each one of them is paranoid and laced with insecurity.

  • Anonymous

    nice spelling warfucks, Americans is with a C not a K.

    (see how stuypid grammer attacks are)

  • Anonymous

    when are you going to shut the fuck you hate monger

  • Anonymous

    the scene stroked you. its stroked you hey. grammer attacks are so lame arnt they.

  • Anonymous

    Can you draw some evidence and and support your support your awnser; i really want to know how Hillary is a witch and im curious to see how you got there.

  • Anonymous

    A crumbling empire is different from one being strategically disassembled and re configured. Your mistaking progress for failure, somehow. In economics it doesnt hurt to damage an evironment in order to maniupulate and adjust to make it better down the road. Little optimism once in a while from the duck pond would help you know that right.

  • Anonymous

    Im pretty STROKED to become a good grammerer like you amerikans. Your halarious man, we all get a good laugh out of you know that right.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Right now, the only thing halarious would be your spelling. Or is it your grammarer? And, yes, I do know y’all get a good laugh out of that at the mental institution where you’re obviously a permanent resident.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    What do you mean is that all I got? You haven’t said anything yet you’ve managed to botch every other word out of the nothing you’ve said. I’d actually say that’s pretty spectacular. You have outdone yourself.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    I think you’re mistaking me for someone who gives a rat’s ass about your ignorant and full of typos rants. Shoo, fly! Time to land on another cow pie.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Duh! You’ve got me now. I cannot support my support for my answer because if support my support for my answer, I am afraid that other things that need support may go without that support that I will, otherwise, be giving to support my answer.

    Now, piss off. I have zero interest in you or ignorant grammarer. Perhaps you can read another artical and come back again after you’ve managed to grow a half a brain. And if you’re curious to see how I got here, I’ll repost each and every single one of Sarah Palinesque quips, multiple typos, ad hominems and all.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    The elites are very, very nervous. If you get a chance, take a stroll by Al Jazeera and you’ll see/hear it. Israel is shitting in their pants and the axis of evil have already positioned troops in the Sania Peninsula. They’re ready! Nothing they’d love more than to blow up another million or so brown people and subdue them into “demokracy”

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Dude, how old are you and does your mother know you’re playing with her computer?

    C’mon, I think it’s time for bed now.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    As soon as you shut the fuck up, you ignorant troll.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    I stand corrected: AmeriKKKans.

    And, yes, I am stuypid. ROFL! See how that works?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    I have 6,000 posts and you have trolled each and every single one of them which officially makes you a stalker which is against the rules of forum which will cause you to get banned.

    Sayonara!

  • Johnny Warbucks

    When you have nothing to say and your grammer sucks, attack the poster.

    So weak kid.

  • Anonymous

    i did that on purpose. im mocking you. its the internet, simply being lazy and not heeding to webster doesnt make my irrelivent. For all you know im a forginer who speaks 3 languages, did you know i speak three languages?

  • Anonymous

    Actually im protecting people by pointing out that your a raging quack who thrives on disinformation and angst.

  • Anonymous

    YOU have nothing to say, you just come on here like your so hard done by; you this preconcieved notion that the world is conspriring against you, you appear to suffer from mild paranoia with a touch of self delusion. THATS the point im making here. Im not sure if you missed it; obviously my words are wasted because your only going keep on ranting nonsence.

  • Anonymous

    are you saying your a peice of shit?

  • Anonymous

    i would be totally stroked to read another grammarer filled artical about amerikans. Explain to me, why Hillary is a wicked witch. Explain it. Or are simply tying needless insults without any intelligent evidence to support what your saying, cuz thats a prominant theme with you (and alot of fox ‘news anchors’, oddly enough), i was just want you prove my point here. You can do that by not replying, or giving another weak responce, either way, its your move.

  • Anonymous

    goto bed child? come on dude. U harped on me for grammarer, im calling you out on yours to show you how impotent your defence is.

  • Anonymous

    A troll to troll for trolls?

  • Anonymous

    you havnt caught on yet hyave you

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Keep talking so you can remove all doubt.

  • Taleisin

    If there is thing the elite demand, it is control. I had a mozzy thru AJ, couldn’t see anything about troops. Israel won’t miss the chance for a good war.

    I notice Angela Merkel is supporting Israel. She might be worried about Israelis seeking asylum should thing go bad.

  • Johnny Warbucks

    I hate to disagree with you on this one my friend. Israel is incapable of fighting an equal. They do not fight wars, they inflict massacres. Notice how they only go against defenseless civilian populations. When there’s a real army involved, they send the US in first. They cowards, first and foremost.

    Angela Merkel may not necessarily be on their side. She probably hates their freaking guts just like the rest of the world. But they are blackmailing her and her country. You know, all that Holocaust business. They actually blackmail more money out of them than they do the US. So, she’s probably secretly rooting for the Egyptians or the Iranians or anybody to take them all out so her country’s financial obligations finally come to an end. 60+ years is a hell of a long time to be paying alimony to an old, fat, ugly, bitter ex-wife, you know?

  • Johnny Warbucks

    I hate to disagree with you on this one my friend. Israel is incapable of fighting an equal. They do not fight wars, they inflict massacres. Notice how they only go against defenseless civilian populations. When there’s a real army involved, they send the US in first. They cowards, first and foremost.

    Angela Merkel may not necessarily be on their side. She probably hates their freaking guts just like the rest of the world. But they are blackmailing her and her country. You know, all that Holocaust business. They actually blackmail more money out of them than they do the US. So, she’s probably secretly rooting for the Egyptians or the Iranians or anybody to take them all out so her country’s financial obligations finally come to an end. 60+ years is a hell of a long time to be paying alimony to an old, fat, ugly, bitter ex-wife, you know?

  • Taleisin

    old, fat, ugly, bitter ex-wife. Gold! lol. I was in Germany 15 years ago and they were paying 8 billion Deutchmarks a year then. (About A$6 Billion) I am sure they are paying more now. No Jewish jokes allowed. Sorry monuments everywhere. If you want to see a massive guilt trip, go to Germany. No one does guilt like the Jews.

    A few years ago I saw a 13 year old boy holding a picture of his 18 year old brother, shot dead for throwing stones at a tank. I watched his heart break on my TV. His 18 year old brother would have been a god in the starry eyes of that little boy. I saw one of my sons in him.

    I fear for the Gaza Strip people. So much misery, and in the end we will all pay for it.

  • http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/01/israeli-saudi-and-american-leaders-say.html Israeli, Saudi and American Leaders Say Arabs Are Not Ready for Democracy → Washington’s Blog

    [...] by the democratic opposition in Egypt and all other societies of the region.As Agence France-Presse reports:"Egypt remains a major pawn in the Middle East," said [Didier Billion, an expert at Institute for [...]

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Alimony…~sigh~ I know all about alimony… Not a pretty thing.

    I can just about imagine. Those poor, poor Germans. Their leader does something and they have to pay for it for generations upon generations. Here, I think you’ll enjoy reading this article (in a morbid way that is):

    http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/01/201113165139647644.html

    What they have done to the Palestinians, they should be made to pay for generations upon generations. When things finally turn around (Egypt will be crucial on that), I hope the Palestinians do to them what they have done to the Germans. It will only be fair! and 6 Billion? Wow! That’s double what the taxpayer suckers of Amerika give to them – well if you don’t count the killing hardware and the technology they steal from the US and all the other perks.

    Here’s another huge bit of news, good for the Palestinians too:

    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/02/01/world/middleeast/AP-ML-Jordan-Cabinet.html?emc=na

  • Johnny Warbucks

    Alimony…~sigh~ I know all about alimony… Not a pretty thing.

    I can just about imagine. Those poor, poor Germans. Their leader does something and they have to pay for it for generations upon generations. Here, I think you’ll enjoy reading this article (in a morbid way that is):

    http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/01/201113165139647644.html

    What they have done to the Palestinians, they should be made to pay for generations upon generations. When things finally turn around (Egypt will be crucial on that), I hope the Palestinians do to them what they have done to the Germans. It will only be fair! and 6 Billion? Wow! That’s double what the taxpayer suckers of Amerika give to them – well if you don’t count the killing hardware and the technology they steal from the US and all the other perks.

    Here’s another huge bit of news, good for the Palestinians too:

    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/02/01/world/middleeast/AP-ML-Jordan-Cabinet.html?emc=na

  • http://www.worldspinner.us/arab-revolution World Spinner

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