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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I think we have failed to hear the message. Mubarak is not the problem, him leaving will not address the problem and in an international economy with failed economic policies that have unintended consequences the dominoes start to fall - and we end up with scapegoat responses.....
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Egypt's economic growth has been among the highest in the Middle East in recent years....just not fast enough coming after years of stagnation and neglect.
The issue is not only economic. It is a corrupt regime, including rigged elections for years and a police force that acts as thugs for Mubarak.
Hardly the acts of a "scapegoat."
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As to otto's cretinocracy.....one only need to look at the neo-con fear-mongering about how Mubarak is better than the radical theocracy that is "poised to take over the country."
Cretin #3 John Mccain: "El Baradei is not a friend of the United States. Second of all, he could be a figurehead for the Muslim Brotherhood ...."
Cretin #2 Bush's former US ambassador John Bolton: "the real alternative is not Jefferson democracy versus the Mubarak regime, but that it’s the Muslim Brotherhood versus the Mubarak regime...." and who suggests that if Mubakak falls, Israel should bomb Iran immediately.
And the #1 cretin: neo-con Islamaphobe Frank Gafney who insists that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the Obama administration....."Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is incessantly meeting with Muslim Brotherhood front organizations and I think has in the past, if not today, employed people who are associated with them."