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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on February 11, 2011, 10:11:33 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: Vice-President Suleiman: Hosni Mubarak stepping down as president of Egypt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
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The People's Assembly not taking over, as prescribed by the Constitution? The Constitution is being ignored?
Dang, where have I heard THAT before? :whatever:
The dominoes be a'fallin'. Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt.....what's next?
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I was in the Atlanta airport yesterday watching the news with a bunch of people. A few of us older ones remember Iran and when the Shah fell. You could tell the different ages groups by the faces. The younger people were exited that the 'Dictator' of Egypt was going to leave power (although he didn't until today). Us older ones watched with trepidation.
I'll hold off with any opinion until we see which way the revolt goes.
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Methinks that the VP (Suleman, IIRC) will not be acceptable to the people. I hope there isn't a bloodbath.
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Thanks to MSM and Obama, we know that the Muslim Brotherhood is filled with peaceful folk and not radical Islamics that want war with Israel and to wage Jihad on the west. :sarcasm:
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Carter's second term....
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The Muslim Brotherhood has already stated that they want a return of the Islamic caliphate....which, given the on going circumstances in the world today, is in my opinion, a good thing. When they're all united under the flag of the Caliphate, we can bomb them all, anywhere in the Islamic world we want and not have to worry about hitting any innocents.
It'll be like being at war with a country and not just a few "misunderstanders of Islam".
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The Muslim Brotherhood has already stated that they want a return of the Islamic caliphate....which, given the on going circumstances in the world today, is in my opinion, a good thing. When they're all united under the flag of the Caliphate, we can bomb them all, anywhere in the Islamic world we want and not have to worry about hitting any innocents.
It'll be like being at war with a country and not just a few "misunderstanders of Islam".
You forget; mullah Barry will be petitioning to join the United Emirate of America to the Grand Islamic Caliphate. There will be no "us" vs. them. There will just be them.
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You forget; mullah Barry will be petitioning to join the United Emirate of America to the Grand Islamic Caliphate. There will be no "us" vs. them. There will just be them.
O-B-One-cluster**** won't be president forever.
I am beginning to think that encroaching mental illness may limit him to even less than one full term.
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O-B-One-cluster**** won't be president forever.
I am beginning to think that encroaching mental illness may limit him to even less than one full term.
All he has to do is get us INTO the Caliphate. Seceding from the Union in 1861 was a piece of cake compared to seceding from the Religion of PeaceTM.
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All he has to do is get us INTO the Caliphate. Seceding from the Union in 1861 was a piece of cake compared to seceding from the Religion of PeaceTM.
I've never figured that out. To be a Muslim and then to renounce the faith and become a Christian is the worst thing you can in the eyes of other Muslims. Barry Hussein was raised Muslim and converted to Christianity, supposedly, yet that is never brought up by any of the Imams. Could it be that Barry never converted away from Islam? :fuelfire:
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All he has to do is get us INTO the Caliphate. Seceding from the Union in 1861 was a piece of cake compared to seceding from the Religion of PeaceTM.
Yeah, they still think Spain belongs to them.
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Now if millions protest in the town square will the hopeychangey guy step down. Terrible news to wake up to.
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The Muslim Brotherhood has already stated that they want a return of the Islamic caliphate....which, given the on going circumstances in the world today, is in my opinion, a good thing. When they're all united under the flag of the Caliphate, we can bomb them all, anywhere in the Islamic world we want and not have to worry about hitting any innocents.
It'll be like being at war with a country and not just a few "misunderstanders of Islam".
One bombing run from Tunisia to Malaysia!
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One bombing run from Tunisia to Malaysia!
Then some mopping up exercising in the rest of the world...Right?
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Then some mopping up exercising in the rest of the world...Right?
We may, however, be screwed:
yahoo news
"Outside Mubarak's Oruba Palace in northern Cairo, women on balconies ululated with the joyous tongue-trilling used to mark weddings and births."
Ululating is not a good sign.
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Democracy protests bring down Egypt's Mubarak
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egypt
CAIRO – Fireworks burst over Tahrir Square and Egypt exploded with joy and tears of relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. Mubarak, who until the end seemed unable to grasp the depth of resentment over his three decades of authoritarian rule, finally resigned Friday and handed power to the military.
"The people ousted the regime," rang out chants from crowds of hundreds of thousands massed in Cairo's central Tahrir Square and outside Mubarak's main palace several miles away in a northern district of the capital.
So these people think they will have a democracy now? I hope they are correct. Alas I fear they are far from it.
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Democracy protests bring down Egypt's Mubarak
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egypt
So these people think they will have a democracy now? I hope they are correct. Alas I fear they are far from it.
Only our idiots in the press and the POTUS think this. I don't think it will happen.
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Only our idiots in the press and the POTUS think this. I don't think it will happen.
I don't think so either. There hasn't been any talk of countries assisting them in setting up a constitution or any form of interim government other than the military. If we had a functioning UN, this would be a perfect use for them, but that won't work. How about we send Jimmuh Carter over there to help?
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I was in the Atlanta airport yesterday watching the news with a bunch of people. A few of us older ones remember Iran and when the Shah fell. You could tell the different ages groups by the faces. The younger people were exited that the 'Dictator' of Egypt was going to leave power (although he didn't until today). Us older ones watched with trepidation.
I'll hold off with any opinion until we see which way the revolt goes.
Did any of the adults take the time to try to undo the brainwashing the younger kids have faced? might've been a good time to talk about history repeating itself. People need to know about the Suez canal and what it'll mean if the radicals take over.
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Did any of the adults take the time to try to undo the brainwashing the younger kids have faced? might've been a good time to talk about history repeating itself. People need to know about the Suez canal and what it'll mean if the radicals take over.
That old thing....it's just another ditch.[DUmp/mode]
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Jeff Kuhner is subbing for Michael Savage, he replayed a call that Michael received this week from someone who's a financier, and that caller said Soros will make tons of money on this, and it wouldn't surprise me at all, how is this guy not in jail?
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I read they already tried to assassinate the VP...........uh oh
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What a strange world we live in.
The brutal dictator Mubarak is deposed by a military junta and the lefty's are going nuts congratulating OblaBla. Did they not notice that 3 weeks ago Egypt's top Military guys were in DC for meetings and the US had military ships posted near Egypt's coast? Does anyone really think that Hosni actually "handed over control" of the government to the Generals willingly?
Don't get me wrong, I much prefer the Generals be in charge than the mullahs and I hope that the outcome is beneficial for Egypt.
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this may well turn into lock and load
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Remember, boys and girls, is all those folks in Iran who deposed the Shah (after Carter wouldn't support him--seeing a pattern here?) thought they were going to get a democratic system of government as well. Unfortunately, when the Shah (and Mubarak) left, it also leaves a nice little vacuum with nobody really to step in and fill it.
It took the Iran situation almost a year to shake out completely, but from the looks of it, 2011 is having some eerie parallels with 1979. I'm not all that optimistic, particularly with this administration calling the shots.
On another note, Rush nailed it yesterday when he showed how the left has always been about how horrible it is for the US to impose it's will, so-called "cowboy diplomacy", etc., yet who got all butt-hurt the other day when Mubarak initially DIDN'T step down? Just shows me one more piece of evidence (as if we needed one more) that it isn't about world affairs or our security, it's about the ego of the president.
God help us all.
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Only our idiots in the press and the POTUS think this. I don't think it will happen.
Exactly. Funny how Mubarak was in power for 30 years but our shithead ADHD-afflicted MSM all decided he was a grifting autocrat only in the last two weeks.
Even Fox - they've had a couple of intelligent experts on this week, for instance the somewhat squeaky-voiced former CIA guy who really is an expert on the area (Sory, can't recall his name) who was dead on in his comments, but they seem incapable of absorbing and responding to any analysis that doesn't fit the 'Glorious democratic revolution' meme that our airhead press (case in point, Whore-aldo) wants to push, and our baby President wants to buy. In fairness Bush had almost-equally baseless faith in the Arab world's desire for democracy, but the two wars he initiated served to displace a true Fascist enemy in one case and an ultimate Islamist theocracy in the other, so at least what he did improved the situation in fact despite his own misplaced ideological faith in the reason for it.
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Yeah, they still think Spain belongs to them.
Spain hasn't demonstrated otherwise. They hightailed it out of Iraq after the Madrid bombing, and for a while now they've been making noises about prosecuting George Bush. Seems like they have their lips planted firmly on the asses of the Mullahs.
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The scariest part in the whole Egypt , Tunisia , Algeria , Yemen et all thing is that is appears only in countries with high numbers of Islamics do they need to make with the violent and obvious protests.
Here in the west they do it through the court system under the guise of multiculturalism and tolerance. The government is only too happy to provide them with the legal assistance to do so, and a noteworthy proportion of the population blindly supports this.
What sort of indictment is that on our society ?
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The scariest part in the whole Egypt , Tunisia , Algeria , Yemen et all thing is that is appears only in countries with high numbers of Islamics do they need to make with the violent and obvious protests.
Here in the west they do it through the court system under the guise of multiculturalism and tolerance. The government is only too happy to provide them with the legal assistance to do so, and a noteworthy proportion of the population blindly supports this.
What sort of indictment is that on our society ?
While there is something of a point there, the cases aren't really comparable since you're comparing countries that have vast Muslim majorities and a dismal record for actually following their own constitutions and laws against societies where Muslims are a small if sometimes troublesome fraction of the population where laws actually mean something besides what the current executive leadership wants them to mean.
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im not so sure he's really gone