Not good enough, I’m afraid. Mubarak has to go…yesterday.

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Leave now or never be seen walking the streets of his home again! The citizens have spoken as the GOP are found of saying. Where are the GOP leaders demanding the pres listen to the mass.

No Mubarak, No Baradei! Of course the MSM is crowning Baradei, another US puppet, the new leader. It doesn’t sound as though Egyptians want him either.

We need to stay out of this, although we’re going to get blamed for whatever happens.

Three cheers!

Three cheers!

We will get blamed precisely BECAUSE we do not stay out of the affairs of others. If it was not for the 1.3 billion that we pay Mubarak to keep the Palestinians penned in to assist Israeli terrorism, Egypt wouldn’t even be where it is today, would it?

We will get blamed precisely BECAUSE we do not stay out of the affairs of others. If it was not for the 1.3 billion that we pay Mubarak to keep the Palestinians penned in to assist Israeli terrorism, Egypt wouldn’t even be where it is today, would it?

McLean, Virginia — If President Barack Obama fails to support El Baradei, he will have made another fatal mistake. We will almost certainly see another fanatical theocracy.

McLean, Virginia — If President Barack Obama fails to support El Baradei, he will have made another fatal mistake. We will almost certainly see another fanatical theocracy.

I don’t think this is enough. He’s just going to announce he’s not running for re-election and he will likely try to keep his power until September. That will also give establishment powers the wiggle room to quietly snatch the government again, as well as find a despot to replace Mubarak.

No. He needs to be gone NOW.

I don’t think this is enough. He’s just going to announce he’s not running for re-election and he will likely try to keep his power until September. That will also give establishment powers the wiggle room to quietly snatch the government again, as well as find a despot to replace Mubarak.

No. He needs to be gone NOW.

This is stinking of shit already. The name of the US and Israel should not come up in anything that has to do with this process unless it is to say that there was no interference from any of them.

This is stinking of shit already. The name of the US and Israel should not come up in anything that has to do with this process unless it is to say that there was no interference from any of them.

No Obama and no Bibi either. Stay out of it!

No Obama and no Bibi either. Stay out of it!

I was going to wait till Friday to buy some more stock since I thought that if anything was going to happen would be before then, but now I’m not so sure I should buy anything, except a lot of food and ammo. I think we’re being set up to having a small nuke going off in a U.S. city by Thursday. Most of the country will be snowed in and it won’t take much to say it was the weather that caused the internet to go down. Iran could then be nuked by Israel and we wouldn’t know until it was too late. No internet, no withdraws from the banks, no selling of any stock which will definitely go down. I better get some money out before Thursday.

I was going to wait till Friday to buy some more stock since I thought that if anything was going to happen would be before then, but now I’m not so sure I should buy anything, except a lot of food and ammo. I think we’re being set up to having a small nuke going off in a U.S. city by Thursday. Most of the country will be snowed in and it won’t take much to say it was the weather that caused the internet to go down. Iran could then be nuked by Israel and we wouldn’t know until it was too late. No internet, no withdraws from the banks, no selling of any stock which will definitely go down. I better get some money out before Thursday.

It is THEIR country, it is THEIR Theocracy, it is THEIR problem. U.S. stay the fuck out of it!

It is THEIR country, it is THEIR Theocracy, it is THEIR problem. U.S. stay the fuck out of it!

Dude !

NO ! NO ! Say it ain’t so !!!!

(sniffle, sniffle . . . .)

Dude !

NO ! NO ! Say it ain’t so !!!!

(sniffle, sniffle . . . .)

Right.

The US has its OWN theocracy.

Right.

The US has its OWN theocracy.

And just what the hell are we supposed to do with the CIA.. and others??? Aren’t the unemployment lines long enough ???? ;-)

Mubarek should go to Saudi Arabia and so should Bush.

McLean, Virginia — Geopolitics doesn’t work like that. The US will be supporting somebody tomorrow. El Baradei is an educated, secular man. He is well known internationally. I believe the US has every reason not to “stay out of it.”

LIstening right now, and it does NOT sound like he is going anywhere….is blaming everything on “violent, noncooperative factions”. Not sure where this is going……

Do you really believe that “The Pretender” television series was a documentary?

Do you want the rest of us to believe that same lie, or are you willing, like some alcoholics, to “drink alone”?

An extremist and/or islamic theocracy that controls a lot of oil and allies itself with nuclear armed dictators can very quickly become “OUR F*CKING PROBLEM”. Be careful what you wish for.

Mubarak can’t really leave Egypt yet. He is still trying to find a nice American taxpayer financed multi-million dollar villa in Southern Florida, where many US supported but no longer viable dictators come to retire.

Much as I’d like to see a “peaceful transition of power,” I doubt very much that he has anything like 7 months to play with, to send his secret police into action. I think he’d be lucky if he had 7 DAYS to put his affairs in order and get out before the folks with the pitchforks tar and feather him and run him out of town on a rail.

Wait a few days, he will go, the army will tell him to get the fuck out of Egypt,or they wont protect him. The army obviously doesn’t want to hurt the Egyptian people. I think they will do what is best for Egypt.

After they get done blaming the “Zionists,” which, as far as I can tell, is just a code word for the Jews.

He still doesn’t get it, does he? The only peaceful transition he should be planning is how to get his ass from his palace to the airport without getting killed in between.

Not good enough. He needs to resign now and leave now. If he stays, he will get his wish to die in Egypt, but it will come long before September.

Leave it to RWNJ media like Fox & Limbaugh, to whip up fears of extremist Islam takeovers ala the Taliban.

The Egypt uprising is hardly about that. Like the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Egyptians have seen the modern world with it’s freedoms and prosperity, and they want in. These rebellions are positive for global progress, not something to be afraid of.

As I noted yesterday (http://republicconstitution.blogspot.com/), the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and Zbigniew Brzezinski both said that he had to peacefully step aside. Things are unfolding in precisely that manner.

So he stands in front of the camera and lies about sending his policethugs to start looting and burning and vandalizing the antiquities, and then he says trust me to leave peacefully in eight months. He threatens the protesters, accusing them of the crimes he himself ordered, and then he says he wants to die in Egypt. Well he’ll get his wish sooner rather than later if he keeps up this kind of malarkey. There’s two million people outside demanding he leave now. I guess it must be torturer’s that go blind and deaf, and not masturbators like father Fitzpatrick told me.

Ha Ha……….the old “biding time” trick.
Hey Pharaoh Mubarak…….the People of Egypt do not like you, nor do they like your cohorts.
They have spoken, a quarter of a million “In Your Face” strong, with what I assume to be an Army, Your Army, supporting THEM.
There is no time for “plea bargaining”.
The Jig is Up.
People that Starve do not give 2 fucks about your Royal Decrees.
This is 2011 BC, not 2011 BC.
Monarchies, Patriarchies, Religious Rule, and Imperial Oligarchy is OVER.
America needs to start subduing it’s main interest.
Not that of which the Elites and the Military Industrial Complex, with their selected officials mandate. but that which the American People desire.
If an 1/8th of America did this in the face of OUR Plutocrats, I can assure you the same results.
When your belly, and that of your children, can be heard across the room because of hunger, you too will petition your government for redress………….and if it’d denied, you too will march into DC and tell the purveyors of demise to “get the fuck out of our house”.
There is nothing NEW under the sun.

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Nice nudging, Mr President! It’s good to see this bad regime coming to an end.

I like that avatar.

Teabaggers will refuse to accept the reality that Obama had anything to do with this.

I agree. He can do a lot of looting in seven months. Throw the bum out today and freeze his families assets.

Yours is pretty good, too.

Her bones will ache
Her mouth will shake
And as the passion dies
Her magic heart will break
She’ll fly to France
Cause there’s no chance
No hope for Cinderella
Come September

Everything wrong
Gonna be alright
Come September

Her violet sky
Will need to cry
Cause if it doesn rain
Then everything will die
She needs to heal
She needs to feel
Something more than tender
Come September

Golly and September is still so far off…

Indeed, and consorts with many a nuclear-armed terrorist dictator.

Peaceful and Honorable Transit will come quicker if they just Hang the Bastard Mubarak.

I don’t expect el Baradei to apply for the job, though I could be wrong.

I don’t expect el Baradei to apply for the job, though I could be wrong.

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Huffpoo-Al Jazeera is reporting chants of “leave, leave.” The Guardian has reports of people yelling “Leave, have some dignity.” The BBC’s Yolande Knell reports that people are afraid of being punished for airing their views so publicly.

The Wall Street Journal quotes Mohammed Morsey, a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, as saying, “No one is satisfied. He and his system have already failed, and the people do not want him to continue with his colleagues. He has to leave.”

Al Arabiya-
Update at 4:41 p.m. ET: “Too little, too late” is how some U.S. officials are privately describing Mubarak’s announcement, a BBC correspondent says. Officials tell her his speech might have been effective last week but not now.

Update at 4:20 p.m. ET: The BBC reports that the thousands of demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square responded to Mubarak’s annoouncement by shouting, “Get out!”

Huffpoo-Al Jazeera is reporting chants of “leave, leave.” The Guardian has reports of people yelling “Leave, have some dignity.” The BBC’s Yolande Knell reports that people are afraid of being punished for airing their views so publicly.

The Wall Street Journal quotes Mohammed Morsey, a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, as saying, “No one is satisfied. He and his system have already failed, and the people do not want him to continue with his colleagues. He has to leave.”

Al Arabiya-
Update at 4:41 p.m. ET: “Too little, too late” is how some U.S. officials are privately describing Mubarak’s announcement, a BBC correspondent says. Officials tell her his speech might have been effective last week but not now.

Update at 4:20 p.m. ET: The BBC reports that the thousands of demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square responded to Mubarak’s annoouncement by shouting, “Get out!”

The people, last I heard, want Mubarak prosecuted for his crimes. If he gets out it won’t be because they want him out. They want him in prison.

The people, last I heard, want Mubarak prosecuted for his crimes. If he gets out it won’t be because they want him out. They want him in prison.

Is the Vice President the CIA guy or is that a different member of Mubarak’s cabinet. At any rate, I don’t think this will placate the revolution.

Is the Vice President the CIA guy or is that a different member of Mubarak’s cabinet. At any rate, I don’t think this will placate the revolution.

Yeah, that was a great series. It’s on DVD now – the whole series.

Yeah, that was a great series. It’s on DVD now – the whole series.

He didn’t say he’d step down, he said he won’t seek reelection; there’s a difference.

He’ll just postpone the election, maybe find some nice superscary muslimofascists to blame for a bomb attack, and remain in power indefinitely.

An anchor on CNN actually asked if the crowds in Egypt were cheering or jeering his speech. Yes, Mubarak said he won’t seek reelection in 8 months and people settled for that, started cheering.

He didn’t say he’d step down, he said he won’t seek reelection; there’s a difference.

He’ll just postpone the election, maybe find some nice superscary muslimofascists to blame for a bomb attack, and remain in power indefinitely.

An anchor on CNN actually asked if the crowds in Egypt were cheering or jeering his speech. Yes, Mubarak said he won’t seek reelection in 8 months and people settled for that, started cheering.

Mubarak cannot be trusted. If he is allowed to complete his last nine months, he will use the time to crackdown on his enemies and consolidate his iron grip on the country, and then, rig the elections.
He is essentially a dictator and his party controls the legislature; he can pass new laws and re-write the constitution. He has rigged the elections for 30 years and will do it again.
He is unwilling to turn over the reins to a transitional government, composed of leaders of the opposition movement and perhaps under the leadership of Mohamed El-Baradei. He might agree to a caretaker government led by members of the existing regime, including the newly appointed vice president, Omar Suleiman.

Mubarak cannot be trusted. If he is allowed to complete his last nine months, he will use the time to crackdown on his enemies and consolidate his iron grip on the country, and then, rig the elections.
He is essentially a dictator and his party controls the legislature; he can pass new laws and re-write the constitution. He has rigged the elections for 30 years and will do it again.
He is unwilling to turn over the reins to a transitional government, composed of leaders of the opposition movement and perhaps under the leadership of Mohamed El-Baradei. He might agree to a caretaker government led by members of the existing regime, including the newly appointed vice president, Omar Suleiman.

GOOGLE: Globalist Stooge ElBaradei Prepares To Hijack Egyptian Revolution

GOOGLE: Globalist Stooge ElBaradei Prepares To Hijack Egyptian Revolution

Um. Well. No, frankly. NOW would be a great time. Give him 9 months, he’ll have 9 months worth of reasons NOT to step down, why he HAS to remain in order to ‘protect the stability of the country’. El Baradei is perfectly capable, by education and experience, to lead the country if that’s what the people want. Mubarak, go away.

Um. Well. No, frankly. NOW would be a great time. Give him 9 months, he’ll have 9 months worth of reasons NOT to step down, why he HAS to remain in order to ‘protect the stability of the country’. El Baradei is perfectly capable, by education and experience, to lead the country if that’s what the people want. Mubarak, go away.

Unacceptable. 8 months is a heck of a lot of time for Mubarak to pull some pretty shady stuff. If the guy is willing to ignore democratic values by staying in office for 30 years, there’s no doubt he’ll try to pull something else in order to stay just a bit longer.

Unacceptable. 8 months is a heck of a lot of time for Mubarak to pull some pretty shady stuff. If the guy is willing to ignore democratic values by staying in office for 30 years, there’s no doubt he’ll try to pull something else in order to stay just a bit longer.

Heard Hannity on the radio signing off for a commercial break (I like to listen to what crap their spewing every once in a while). He said they would be back with some “investigative reporting” about the Muslim brotherhood. One reporter says one thing about the Muslim brotherhood and the conservatives are creaming their pants.

Sept. some getting the shaft

Mubarak promises to step aside and let his son run for President this September.
Yeah, that will work with the Egyptian masses.
Because some people will settle for a lot less:

Egyptian Declaration of Slightly Less Dependency

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to slightly loosen the political bands which have connected them with a foreign-supported dictator and to assume among the powers of the earth, the same old station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to peacefully ask for slightly less oppression.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that some men are created equal…

Lol…they are trying to make it look like Obama is the reason. What a joke.

“Hello, World . . . I’m Hosni Mubarak. (Just call me … “Dear Leader”).

“One thing about me you should know about me: I HAVEN’T GOT A CLUE.

“Thanks so much.

/s/ H.B.”

Ease down. First we don’t know what Obama actually said. It may be that he said string this out 8 months till we calm them down and you who knows?
Secondly, praises go to the people of Egypt, not anyone in this country, including obama.

But I have a shit-load of dough

One less dictator. There are too many to go including the Al Saud’s of Saudi Arabia.

I want to see Palin resign.

Uh…what’s that? Oh, yeah… She did quit.

Never mind.

I thought unemployed CIA scum joined Blackwater, no?

The Castros are dying to get into the US little game so we can always send them over there. And I don’t mean Guantanamo but Havana.

Mubarak doesn’t get it,does he?

Hey, he DOES have a Nobel Peace Prize.

As I understand it, the son doesn’t get to run.

Omar Suleiman, former intel chief and infamously notorious torturer. Nah…

*****
Habib was interrogated by the country’s Intelligence Director, General Omar Suleiman…. Suleiman took a personal interest in anyone suspected of links with Al Qaeda. As Habib had visited Afghanistan shortly before 9/11, he was under suspicion. Habib was repeatedly zapped with high-voltage electricity, immersed in water up to his nostrils, beaten, his fingers were broken and he was hung from metal hooks.

That treatment wasn’t enough for Suleiman, so:

To loosen Habib’s tongue, Suleiman ordered a guard to murder a gruesomely shackled Turkistan prisoner in front of Habib – and he did, with a vicious karate kick.

After Suleiman’s men extracted Habib’s confession, he was transferred back to US custody, where he eventually was imprisoned at Guantanamo. His “confession” was then used as evidence in his Guantanamo trial.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/30-2

“Retirement” usually means … A RETIREMENT PARTY !!!!

Golly . . .

. . . is “everyone” invited ?
Anybody know ?

September will not do, no way.

Just leave! Get the fuck out!

Seems the ‘Boss’ is out of sync with his ‘Under Boss’ on this.
Got a kick out of this line.
For its part, Israel has expressed outrage over Obama’s hesitance to outwardly support Mubarak, suggesting US politicians are following popular opinion as opposed to their “genuine interests.”
Could this be a veiled threat to their re-election coffers?

Retirement. What a weasel. Mubarak is just like the US and Israel. A psycopath who is in complete denial and out of touch with reality. What part of “MUBARAK, LEAVE!” doesn’t he understand?

And a gold watch. Don’t forget the gold watch.

US tax dollars to be exact.

i don’t see how retiring in september and hanging around until then is going to satisfy the 1-2 milion people who were out on the Street today.

…..cue to the song, Leaving On A Jet Plane

like with lift off tomorrow to that villa in saudi arabia……

Actually, ElBaradei has zero experience. He’s a scientist-trained bureaucrat not a politician. And no, they are not both the same either in this case.

In the meantime, it will be open season on the protesters.

“In the pantomime world of Mubarak himself – and of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Washington – the man who still claims to be president of Egypt swore in the most preposterous choice of vice-president in an attempt to soften the fury of the protesters – Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s chief negotiator with Israel and his senior intelligence officer, a 75-year-old with years of visits to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and four heart attacks to his credit. How this elderly apparatchik might be expected to deal with the anger and joy of liberation of 80 million Egyptians is beyond imagination. When I told the demonstrators on the tank around me the news of Suleiman’s appointment, they burst into laughter.”
-Robert Fisk, “Egypt: Death Throes of a Dictatorship”, Jan 30, 2011.

Yes, the “Vice President” is a torturer CIA stooge. Mubarak has been trying to fool his people and doublecross them since day one which is the reason he has to go NOW

He is one clueless, psychopathic SOB. He is beginning to look/sound more and more like an Israeli than an Egyptian. The disconnect between him and his people is monumental

I saw a sign somewhere that read “1 million v 1″ – Thought it was great!

Hey, hey, hey! You two…get a room!

CNN and RS even did their best. Ha’aretz is out enforced.

That’s what I was telling my son today. I see only two solutions if he refuses to leave (and he is one clueless, stubborn SOB), (1) shoot him; (2) for the army to take over. The Egyptians should have waltzed into that Presidential Palace and arrest him. Look at the mess the poor Tunisians have on their hands now because they didn’t do that.

Yes, they do, Jamie. That’s what they keep saying that they want justice, at least, for the protesters that were murdered during the protests.

His goons have tortured a damn lot of people over these years. That adds up to a whole big fuckin’ crowd of angry, pissed off families that want to rip him to pieces with their hands.

He has to be out of his mind to think he’s going to ” hang out ’til Fall.” He’s a dead man if he stays there.

Or Israel. We’ve already paid their stay there many times over.

Oh, whatever.. He’s going to stay on long enough to rig the election.

He needs to GO.. NOW..

Suuuure. And in September he will decide the best thing for the country is for him not to step down. Since by then any real political election opponents will have been assassinated. Everyone will be really disappointed, but they will just have to accept it. That’s the new plan.

Ok Yours is nice too.

Saudi Arabia is coming down soon too…

Are you getting frisky with me? :)

You started it. I guess the Egypt situation has me feeling pretty good, but seriously Johnny, you are not my type.

:(

Is it my bombs you don’t like? I’ll change, I swear I’ll change.

[...] president’s call for immediate change may have been a challenge to Mubarak, who announced in a speech several hours earlier that he would not seek another term in office, but would remain as president [...]

Change into a woman and you might stand a chance.

Thanks for this. I was just telling a friend of mine a day or two ago, that I was waiting to see what Robert Fisk had to say about the situation in Egypt. Fisk is a genius and a great writer, he’s been in the Middle East for the Independent for about 40 years. His book “The Great War For Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East” (2005) is a long (1038 pages plus endnotes), but never boring or cliched, must read primer on Middle East history. I learned something I didn’t know on every page, and on most pages more than one thing. So thanks again.

MUBARAK….GTFO!!

Exactly! And conveniently sliding Omar Suleiman into a “Vice President” position has the mark of Israeli and US manipulation all over it. It’s predictable that there will be one hell of a push to ram him in for president whenever Mubarak finally leaves. From the Israeli perspective, Omar Suleiman would “their” choice to keep the Egyptian people at bay.

the first thing that popped into my head was “I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for a cheeseburger today.”

[...] numbered.The president’s call for immediate change may have been a challenge to Mubarak, who announced in a speech several hours earlier that he would not seek another term in office, but would remain as president [...]

By naming Suleiman as VP, Mubarak has cornered Obama. Suleiman is the Bush-Obama torture guy. If Obama opposes the appointment of Suleiman, he opens himself (and Bush) up to scrutiny.

Mubarak is a genius. He is playing Obama like a fiddle.

This is why our laws have to be followed. Once somebody like Obama starts ignoring the laws (i.e. “looking forward”), there’s no going back. Obama is at the center of an anti-Constitutional snowball.

He will gladly step down on Tuesday after killing the opposition today….ROTFLMAO

By September, he’ll be struck with Alzheimer’s and forget that he promised to step down

It appears, sadly, that this revolution may have been coopted. With the army playing a pivotal role, a lot of wheeling and dealing is going on in the power structure, the United States playing far too obvious a role. The result, may well be a pack of Barack Obama-like lies about Hope and Change (or the Egyptian equiv.) which will soon come to nothing.

The surprisingly toothless Muslim Brotherhood in the end have proved to be nothing more than the willing scarecrows of a social order that required justification for its preposterously extended and fraudulent state of emergency. They will be rehabilitated as the necessary Monster under the Bed.

If this proves true, alas, the torture and impoverishment will likely roll on–just as it does in this country.

Nevertheless, the Egyptian experience proves two things that the many smug crypto-reactionaries of RawStory and Salon refuse to admit: 1) Revolution is possible; 2) Revolutions can happen only when they are initiated and to a large extent led by the working classes.

I only pause to note the well-known fact that if social inequality is a cause for revolution, the degree of social inequality in this country now is actually greater than in Egypt. (See (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22999)

Revolution is possible. Not only is it possible, it’s the only alternative to the present state of anarchy in the United States.

By the way, when it comes to bourgeois anti-revolutionary propaganda, no more thoroughly discredited figure exists in the so-called social sciences than the late Crane Brinton, recently praised with ecstasy in these pages by an infatuated lover of authority. Brinton was one of a group of self-professed Harvard reactionaries who maintained a cult for the infamous proto-fascist Vilfredo Pareto. Brinton claimed actual scientific authority for his studies, which were in reality nothing but armchair philosophy, imbued with old-line Wasp snobbery and tricked out with the apparatus, but not the reality, of scholarship.

Having an open mind towards Brinton’s pseudo-scientific, though not inelegant, claptrap is like having an open mind toward the far less attractive but no less cogent L. Ron Hubbard or the paranoid psychotic Lyndon LaRouche. You have that right, but it’s a way-station on the road to mental breakdown. Brinton is merely one figure in a long parade of right-wing Harvard frauds ending with Harvey Mansfield, the notorious professed liar and godfather of neoconservatism. You’d be better off quoting Nostradamus.

Won’t the Americans and the Egyptian Army do all the rigging necessary with the help of some well-paid extras like Baradei and the Muslim Brotherhood? Baradei may not end up in power, but he represents the interests of the ruling elite in a significant if “liberal” way and seems capable of having some creative input into the Hope and Change part of the con. The Muslim Brotherhood can always go back to their old job of justifying a permanent state of emergency.

There are signs of a slick deal in the works from which the revolutionary masses are excluded and will get nothing. The signs include Baradei’s out-of-character outreach to the temporarily irrelevant Brotherhood. (The Brotherhood, coincidentally, begin to look suspiciously like paid agents provocateurs caught without their disguises.) Another sign is the preposterous agreement giving Mubarak eight months to consolidate his wonderful legacy. Will the revolution continue when the Army betrays the revolutionaries and turns them into “saboteurs and thugs” who are suddenly everywhere? Won’t the old torture regime creeps back in under the bloodthirsty American-Israeli aegis?

I know the US Ambassador to Egypt has requested this (neither Mubarak or his son running this September), but I find nothing in Mubarak’s speech confirming the second part.
http://www.wirednews.us/news.php/127246-Egypt-unrest-US-urged-Mubarak-not-to-seek-re-election
Mubarak’s televised speech:
http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE7102JP20110201?sp=true

I’m sure Mubarak can find some nephew or son-in-law to endorse, instead.
But I think the Egyptian people are demanding an actual change, not a different face on a corrupt regime.

what goes around, comes around….

Chill, Mumu.
Mubarack Obama will offer you safe haven. He’s looking forward, not back, silly. “Leaders” don’t do the “justice” thing.

We get that. At least its a revolution. They’ll get it right next time. Maybe. What revolution or other major social upheaval in history can you name that hasn’t been taken advantage of by the vulture culture? Anyone?

Why don’t we make that call when we know? Is there any indication so far that Baradei intends to run for office? No, there is not.

Ah yes, the elusive scrutiny. Scrutiny on the Bounty. How awkward!
Thanks for pointing that out, Mr/Mrs/Ms X.

You’re welcome. If you can link to his home page I would be grateful.

CUBA…..

One week and a minimum of 100 deaths and thousands of injuries late,r as the stock market loses half it’s value, commerce is turned off, the banks are closed, the internet is shut down as well as he trains and MuBarack comes up with, “Oh, and by the way I am not running again in the election in 7 months. Didn’t I mention that?”
Stay tuned, the revolution continues.

Tax-free yet.

I think they said he is the ‘raisin’.

Good! So who’s in? Notice only the basset-hound scientist said “I might consider leading.”
Where’s the Egyptian Fidel? Does it always need to be an army guy? Is this VISION?

Idea….send him to Israel. Think about it. They like him a lot, right? Nobody mid-east will attack a country sheltering an Egyptian Political Icon. Win…win! ‘We protect your guy and keep him here…you back off the Islamo-terrorism thing!’ I’m likin’ this! (And he gets to stay in the neighborhood! Whoa!)

…that’s because he’s too young to blame for WW2.

Wrong…the son Has the runs!

I’ve been around a few blogs today checking out the reactions. Know what’s fun? Witnessing Reichwingers heads explode. Must be a bitch for the the liberal haters to witness a massively successful secular/progressive/liberal revolution that yields such profound and historic results within the space of a week. Frankly (no pun intended), I’d be doubling up on the Pampers this week if I were them.
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You think?

…I’ll see you comment and raise you an insult.

That or put the bastard on trial. There seems to be some interest in the latter in his home country.

…I gotta spray my keyboard.

I hope he runs for the hills with 2 million protesters on his heels. But I believe he is safe in one the UK estates at present. 17 private jets quietly scurried off to England last week, says BBC.

My guess is that they’ll put all the protesters on trial….have I got that right?

After pride goeth the fall.

I was a huge fan when I was but a lad. Only now I get it.

I thought I started it.

That’s change I can believe in.

If you had got up to all the shit Mubarak has….you would fight too. The pitchforks are at the gate.

Without a doubt the speech was 100% weaseling so this would be expected. I am comfortable with the expectation that this will happen when hell freezes over. One thing the public in Egypt has exhibited is that they are, by and large, not naive, with the exception of a few paid pro-Mubarack protesters. BBC reports that the going rate to cheer in the public square for MuBarack is reported to be 20 lbs.

Knee-jerk response to the headline (confessing I have read closely neither the article nor the 131 comments): Mubarak still “FIGHTING”? How about ‘”BELLIGERENT”?

I hope this arrogant asshole finds his way out of the country in a wooden box

Retiring in September?

Christ Almighty, is this idiot dense, or WHAT?

Unless I’m misinterpreting things, your people said, “GTFO NAO!!!!”

a Hosni Hosni,
oh no, said we gotta go,
yeah yeah yeah yeah
y’a said a Hosni Hosni,
oh baby
said we gotta go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx-8_GI4d2c

Here’s the link for his home page at “The Independent”:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/

And here’s a link for the story from which you quoted at “The Independent”:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-egypt-death-throes-of-a-dictatorship-2198444.html

It appears he has written several articles on various aspects of the situation in Egypt. I used to read “The Independent” nearly every morning but haven’t read it in a while. They have upgraded their website quite nicely in the last couple of years. I have found this paper to be a little more consistently left than the Guardian, although both are good, I have always preferred The Independent.

Here’s the link for his home page at “The Independent”:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/

And here’s a link for the story from which you quoted at “The Independent”:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-egypt-death-throes-of-a-dictatorship-2198444.html

It appears he has written several articles on various aspects of the situation in Egypt. I used to read “The Independent” nearly every morning but haven’t read it in a while. They have upgraded their website quite nicely in the last couple of years. I have found this paper to be a little more consistently left than the Guardian, although both are good, I have always preferred The Independent.

Here’s the link for his home page at “The Independent”:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/

And here’s a link for the story from which you quoted at “The Independent”:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-egypt-death-throes-of-a-dictatorship-2198444.html

It appears he has written several articles on various aspects of the situation in Egypt. I used to read “The Independent” nearly every morning but haven’t read it in a while. They have upgraded their website quite nicely in the last couple of years. I have found this paper to be a little more consistently left than the Guardian, although both are good, I have always preferred The Independent.

Maybe that’s why the US sent former Ambassador Frank Wisner to speak to Mubarak? Wisner’s daddy started the CIA. The CIA wants to be sure they are in control of this so called ‘peaceful transition’.

Thanks….

After the events that have taken place today, I certainly hope that the Egyptian people seize Mubarak, try him and administer justice right at the scene of the crime, Tahrir Square.

After today, let the people have him! They’re already reporting more than 300 dead. He should be tried for crimes against humanity and hung on Tahrir Square.

That’s what his people are saying, move to Tel Aviv. I agree.

That was yesterday, my friend. It’s about 11 now and there are thousands more injured and at least another 300 dead. He has attacked his own people in the most vicious of ways and has caused as much property destruction as possible. The mother fucker knows he has to go but he is making sure that he causes as much chaos and destruction as possible before he does. His people should seize him, try him and hang him on Tahrir Square for crimes against humanity.

Media propaganda, Agent Provocateurs, Continuous State of Emergency, Monetary Crimes, Secrecy and Continuity of Government bullshit. The bad motherfuckers get promotions and power and the good get killed and fucked.
I hope Mubarak is spread to the four winds. His is a government that doesn’t deserve to exist. The stubbornness is enough reason to leave nothing in it’s place but dust. It’s also a fucking wake up call for America and our corrupt fucking officials. How many of the same fucking things are going on in America?
Hell if there was real terrorism in America, I wouldn’t know who the fuck to even call. It certainly wouldn’t be the unconstitutional DHS. 500 injured 300 dead the cost of one more day in power.

Uh, no! Can’t help you there, sorry. But you can see JasonA, he’s the resident drag queen around here. You can usually find it trolling behind me, wearing a pink sequin dress. :)

Absolutely. He’s got the official stamp of the government of the US of Israel on his ass. If given the time, he’ll make a smooth transition from himself to…himself and rob & pillage as much as he can and massacre his people as he is doing right now. The bastard is showing himself more and more for the monster he is. He’s gotta go. Now!

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