Posted on 02/11/2011 11:47:28 AM PST by kristinn
Hosni Mubarak had harsh words for the United States and what he described as its misguided quest for democracy in the Middle East in a telephone call with an Israeli lawmaker a day before he quit as Egypt's president.
The legislator, former cabinet minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, said on Israel TV Friday he came away from the 20-minute conversation Thursday with the feeling the 82-year-old leader realized "it was the end of the Mubarak era."
"He had very tough things to say about the United States," said Ben-Eliezer, a member of the center-left Labor Party who has held talks with Mubarak on numerous occasions while serving in various Israeli coalition governments.
"He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: 'We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that's the fate of the Middle East,'" Ben-Eliezer said.
"'They may be talking about democracy but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,'" he quoted Mubarak as saying.
SNIP
"He contended the snowball (of civil unrest) won't stop in Egypt and it wouldn't skip any Arab country in the Middle East and in the Gulf.
"He said 'I won't be surprised if in the future you see more extremism and radical Islam and more disturbances -- dramatic changes and upheavals," Ben-Eliezer added.
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The Reuters headline is misleading. Mubarak slammed the White House.
My question is...why is the DOW going up on the news that Mubarak stepped down if radical Islam is the probable result?
The headline correct. He slammed 0 and the fools who put him in office; that is, the majority of the voting public in the US/
“... Obama is incompetent or diabolical.”
Or, both.
How quickly we forget or choose not to remember Bush’s Freedom Agenda.
“Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. With this in mind, commentator Lee Smith looks back on the presidency of George W. Bush, and argues that the former president’s policy on replacing repressive Arab regimes with democracy were spot on.”
The USA spent the last century fighting for freedom and democracy, Mubarak should not expect otherwise in this century. Thirty years was enough time to shape up.
And The Founders believed that the multitude would deserve what they voted in.
That’s one of my favorite photos.
I guess seeing the pyramids and other ancient Egyptian architectual marvels is off the bucket list. It is a shame because without the towel heads, they could really build on their unique historical tourism and be a very well off nation.
I was just thinking that very thing. I guess I’ll instead concentrate on visiting more of the US while that’s still possible.
Barack is not the only one. The entire corrupt mainstream media is calling it a victory, along with the corrupt congress and all the corrupt politicians who go along or keep shut up.
Hosni speaks for me when he speaks the truth
"'They may be talking about democracy but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,'" he quoted Mubarak as saying.
Because a radical Egyptian government won't happen tomorrow and because there was no serious bloodshed.
There is still some chance of a good outcome assuming the continued rational behavior of the armed forces, and assuming none of the neighbors decide that a war with Israel would keep similar popular aspirations among their own populations at bay.
to be fair, the US militarily occupied iraq. It didn’t do so in iran, or gaza/PLO area, and it won’t in egypt. That provides a LOT more opportunity for radical elements to organize and subvert the process.
You can see it all in Cheney’s look. Pure disgust and distrust.
Mubarek is right on the money. But of course, any talk of “democracy” coming from the White House is just a scam.
The Constitutional Convention Debates -- Qualifications for Suffrage (August 7, 10)
I suspect things in the mideast will really blow up shortly after the new Republican President is inaugurated in 2013. That way the media can blame her.
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