Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Resigns
- Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:07am by
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CAIRO (The Blaze/AP) — Egypt exploded with joy, tears, and 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.
The crowds in Cairo, the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and other cities around the country burst into pandemonium. They danced, chanted “goodbye, goodbye,” and raised their hands in prayer as fireworks and car horns sounded after Vice President Omar Suleiman made the announcement on national TV just after nightfall.
“Finally we are free,” said Safwan Abou Stat, a 60-year-old in the crowd of protesters at the palace. “From now on anyone who is going to rule will know that these people are great.”
The United States at times seemed overwhelmed trying to keep up with the rapidly changing crisis, fumbling to juggle its advocacy of democracy and the right to protest, its loyalty to longtime ally Mubarak and its fears of Muslim fundamentalists gaining a foothold. Neighboring Israel watched with growing unease, worried that their 1979 peace treaty could be in danger. It quickly demanded on Friday that post-Mubarak Egypt continue to adhere to it.
Mubarak, a former air force commander came to power after the 1981 assassination of his predecessor Anwar Sadat by Islamic radicals. Throughout his rule, he showed a near obsession with stability, using rigged elections and a hated police force accused of widespread torture to ensure his control.
He resisted calls for reform even as public bitterness grew over corruption, deteriorating infrastructure and rampant poverty in a country where 40 percent live below or near the poverty line.
The protest movement that began on Jan. 25 grew from small groups of youth activists organizing on the Internet into a mass movement that tapped into the discontent to become the largest popular uprising in the Arab world.
Up to the last hours, Mubarak sought to cling to power, handing some of his authorities to Suleiman while keeping his title.
But an explosion of protests Friday rejecting the move appeared to have pushed the military into forcing him out completely. Hundreds of thousands marched throughout the day in cities across the country as soldiers stood by, besieging his palace in Cairo and Alexandria and the state TV building. A governor of a southern province was forced to flee to safety in the face of protests there.
His fall came 32 years to the day after the collapse of the shah’s government in Iran.
Vice President Suleiman – who appears to have lost his post as well in the military takeover – appeared grim as he delivered the short announcement.
“In these grave circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave his position as president of the republic,” he said. “He has mandated the Armed Forces Supreme Council to run the state. God is our protector and succor.”
Nobel Peace laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, whose young supporters were among the organizers of the protest movement, told The Associated Press, “This is the greatest day of my life.”
“The country has been liberated after decades of repression,“ he said adding that he expects a ”beautiful” transition of power.
Outside Mubarak’s Oruba Palace in northern Cairo, women on balconies ululated with the joyous tongue-trilling used to mark weddings and births.
Mohammed el-Masry, weeping with joy, said he had spent the past two weeks in Tahrir before marching to the palace Friday. He was now headed back to the square to join his ecstatic colleagues. “We made it,” he gasped.
The question now turned to how the military, long Egypt’s most powerful institution and now its official ruler, will handle the transition in power. Earlier in the day, the Armed Forces Supreme Council – the military’s top body – vowed to guide the country to greater democracy. State TV said a new statement by the military would be issued Friday evening.
Abdel-Rahman Samir, one of the youth organizers of the protests, said the protest movement would now open negotiations with the military over democratic reform but vowed protests would continue to ensure change is carried out.
“We still don’t have any guarantees yet – if we end the whole situation now the it‘s like we haven’t done anything,” he said. “So we need to keep sitting in Tahrir until we get all our demands.”
But, he added, “I feel fantastic. …. I feel like we have worked so hard, we planted a seed for a year and a half and now we are now finally sowing the fruits.”
The resignation comes a day after an American intelligence official told Congress there was a “strong likelihood” Mubarak would step down yesterday. That report was discredited when Mubarak appeared on TV and said he would not be stepping down.
By Friday morning, however, there were numerous reports that Mubarak had fled Cairo. By Friday evening he had resigned.
It remains to be seen if the announcement, and the caving to the people’s demands, will ignite a firestorm of protests across the fragile Middle East. Several of the region’s autocratic rulers have already made pre-emptive gestures of democratic reform to avert their own protest movements. The lesson many took: If it could happen in three weeks in Egypt, where Mubarak’s lock on power had appeared unshakable, it could happen anywhere.
This is a breaking story. Updates will be added. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Average_JoeMN
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:26amPeople celebrated just like this in 1979 Iran and we know what happened after that. I don’t trust Obama to help this situation at all. Think Jimmy Carter.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:42amnot even a close comparison.
Report Post »Pragmatica
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:01pmNot even close! Egypyt is NOT Iran!!! It just isn’t!
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:10pmThink Jimmy Carter?
I say, thank Jimmy Carter for brokering the peace which has prevailed between Egypt and Israel for 32 years.
Recall also that it was not Iran’s Islamic Revolution as such that frosted US-Iranian relations so much as the ill-considered decision some months later to admit the deposed Shah to the US.
Report Post »ClockKing
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 8:27pmCarter had nothing to do with that peace. Sadat wanted it, and put his life on the line to make it happen.
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:25amNow we need to get Obama to step down.
Instead of his trying to be like Reagan or JFK maybe he should be more like Mubarak.
Report Post »WhatsUp
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:34amAgreed–and the sooner the better–unfortunately, BHO is too narcissistic to listen to the people of this country, after all, he thinks he knows it all!
Why can’t Americans take to the street like this (only without the violence, oh but wait, if the left shows up, you know they’ll be confrontations) and demand that our government listen to us!!! They continue to ignore the results of the past election–we must stand up and speak out!
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:38amnot gonna happen,in fact 4 more years! 4 more years!
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:33pm“4 more years! 4 more years!” Ha ha. Not gonna happen, in fact, he’s only got two. With bumbling like this on the international stage, he will need to be replaced for foreign policy alone.
To be fair, the events of the last 24 hours seem perfectly designed to embarrass the Obama Administration. Not surprised they fell for it.
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 2:26pm@Whatsup…didnt Obama get elected by the majority? And last I checked he wasnt up fo re-election last year. Is he supposed to just step down because the opposition doesnt like him? Wouldnt it be great though if we had a one-party government …like China?
Report Post »Moment of Clarity
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:25amso, even though he was criticized for getting his intelligence from the media, Panetta was right
Report Post »Notorrius
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:25amWell I think the US has done enough and Obama should shut the hell up. If the Egyptians want this then so be it. We as a nation need to turn to our own people in this country and fix whats wrong. I pray for the Eqyptians and whats to come for them.
Report Post »SND97
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:23amNow I wonder hmmmm..If the people gather again In Iran, will our President tell Ole Idiot head “You Must Go NOW!!” Or will he call once again for calm and understanding
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:29amAin’t going to happen, those troops will fire on command.
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:22amand so it begins
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:25amhttp://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection/
Report Post »mrsclark
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:22amPrepare to see continued chaos. Now will come the real violent riots as the radicals attempt to take power.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:20amHe hasn’t really resigned, The new VP just says he’s “stepped down” (which is really stepped aside) to convince the crowd to leave .
Report Post »No big news. They are just managing the preceptions of the rioters.
kenwhawk
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:19amAnd know it begins….the extreme will take control and move on Israel…..
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:29amnot going to happen, nukes ya know.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:31amRight, because Egyptians earned their freedom solely to kill Jews. That was their intent and the only force driving them.
Report Post »lynda1276
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:18amscary..when in doubt i always go with “the devil” i know..
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:27amso then, if you lived in colonial America,you would have sided with the british??
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:31amI never go with the devil, no matter how familiar he is. To do otherwise is akin to women staying with abusive husbands. No way to live. Don’t fear change. Don’t fear the unknown. Especially when the known is evil.
WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:16amLet the games begin! GOD help us.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:16amNow what? I guess we are going to find out what Egyptians are really all about.
Report Post »DeltaHawk
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:16amWW #3 coming soon to a neighborhood near you! Obama should be hung for this!
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:24amhurry run for the shelter!!!! come out in a year or so!!
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:32amYou are right….and I believe this movement was started by the left wing of the US.
Report Post »saviorammo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:49amI keep say’n I have thousands of trees around me, Delta. The entire admin and majority of our govmt needs to be hung for treason!
Exposejose–Libs and leftists spend their entire life in school, getting degrees, and it just makes them dumber and bigger Aholes!
Best way to learn something is do it! What has Barry or any of thse traitors ever done b4 they put the death blow to our economy and our country? NOTHIN
Report Post »WBOB
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:15amtreading into unknown waters.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:27amUnknown waters will be better for the Egyptians than the small pool with the huge shark in the middle.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:39amThat is what the liberals cried when Carter was president and a similar thing happened in Iran, millions suffered and tens of thousands died as the liberals cheered.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:20pmYes Swampy .. but we too have young uneducated (public schools do not teach REAL history) people … they voted for Obama. They have no clue .. read weeble posts .. truly uneducated.
Report Post »ArchAnG3L
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:15amWell with a majority of Egypts people in their mid 20′s; pissed off, disenchanted, poor,with a general lack of opportunity, etc, etc, etc. I fear Egypt will be the new breeding ground for Jihadists. I’m sure the radicals are already licking their chops. Moving in for the kill…
Report Post »Kevin
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:15amOne down… One to go. I‘m sure they’ll stay until the VP steps down.. and the military will have to take over for now.
Report Post »DJR
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:14amGod help them
Report Post »saviorammo
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:40amScrew that. Let the idiot heathens help themselves. Just as we need to do the same. Fight for your freedom or perish.
This is just a prelude for what’s coming here. Wake the F&^k Up!
No army has EVER lost who bore the cross!
Report Post »tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:24pmwhy they have just toppled a dictator who brutalised them for 30 years, the army will keep stability and a democratic secular egypt albeit with islamic influences will emerge
Report Post »Doctor Who
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:28pmSaviourammo – tell that to the Crusaders!!
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:29pmSaviorammo:
“No army has EVER lost who bore the Cross.”?
The Byzantine army at the Yarmuk and Manzikert, Charlemagne’s army at Ronscevalles, the armies of the Crusader states, the Whites in Russia?
It can and has happened!
Report Post »bdmf80
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:14amThis is not good
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:41amand why is it “not-good?”
Report Post »Badger Babe
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:13amMay God grant peace to the people of Egypt.. I truly believe that this is just the start of a really hard road for them..
Report Post »James83940
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:20amIt’s going to get ugly before it gets better….but it will get better one day.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:31amIt is going to get waaaay ugly before it gets better.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:12amSay good bye to cheap oil when the Muslim Brotherhood takes over the Seuz canal
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:31amgood!! we need to get away from mid-east oil anyway and Egypt doesn’t have oil.
Report Post »mrsclark
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:45amWeeble, Egypt may not have massive exports, but your premise that there is NO oil in Egypt is false. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Egypt/Background.html
But the issue with oil and Egypt is not the production, it is the control of the Suez Canal where the majority of the oil exports from the middle east travel through.
Do your homework before you make uninformed comments.
Yes, we do need to get off foreign oil. DRILL HERE DRILL NOW!
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:47amwe dont use that much mid east oil
read the IEA reports
You know who does…. China
and China doesnt care who gets the money (muslim extremists)
as long as they get the oil.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:57amWeeb, they have control of half of the Suez Canal, last time I checked oil comes through there.
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:03pm@weeblewacker1
And rely on what exactly?
Report Post »Heavily subsidized and unreliable wind and solar power.
Obama is doing his best to shut down oil, gas and coal power.
Nuke plants? Oh no, can’t have any more of those.
The U.S.A. at night would look like the satellite image of North Korea at night. DARK.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:07pm@Weeble
What? Wrong again I’m afraid:
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt
“Egypt’s economy depends mainly on agriculture, media, PETROLEUM EXPORTS, and tourism”
Dude, please, you’re embarrassing yourself. Do your homework, you‘ve been blatantly wrong twice now that I’ve caught and yet you come in here with a mocking attitude. You’ve destroyed your own credibility right off the bat.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:39pmHEY DASH….
You are ABOSULUTELY RIGHT!
GAS PRICES & FOOD PRICES ARE SUBJECT TO SKY-ROCKET!
Report Post »I will be AMAZED if it doesn’t.
CatB
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:04pm@Weeble
You really are an idiot .. perhaps some reading before futher posting would be in order. You aren’t even an “educated” idiot now.
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 2:09pmIts interesting that 99.9% of the energy that heats our planet comes from the sun. This is the same energy that drives photosynthesis and makes life possible, thus this is also the energy that created fossil fuels. And solar energy is unlimited and free. If there was only some way we could harness the energy from the sun to use for energy, instead of fossils… oh well, Im told its cant be done and if it could it would probably threaten capitalism and then the antichrist will rear its ugly 7 heads. But i’m saved so its all good. Did you know Jesus was a capitalist? He must have been because its what makes our country the greatest one in the world. Thats why everybody loves us so much they’re jealous they cant BE us and thats why they hate us.
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 8:17pm@mrfunn…
Why not rely on our own deposits of oil and natural gas??? We have more oil reserves in the continental United States than there are in the entire middle east… We just need to elect a President that will let us use them…
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:11amNow if only a couple of hundred thousand people protesting in front of the WH could get Barry to do the same thing
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:17amAnd leave Biden in charge? er….no…
Report Post »Badger Babe
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:17amLOL.. I don’t know would you really want Biden? Just wondering..
Report Post »asker
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:23am2 thumbs up on that one
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:34amI really meant Barry and Joe
Report Post »Juniemoon
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:39amYeah, was thinking the same thing, except the whole administration goes with him.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:50amAs good as it would be to be rid of them all…I think the best bet is just to let him finish his last 2 years and pray we have all (the majority anyway) learned from our mistake…We can fix the mess…
The only other alternative is impeachment, and while I believe we have the grounds we do not have the congress. After the Clinton witch hunt I do not think it would be the way to go.
We elected the idiot…We wait him out…
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:57amSo you want Hillary Clinton in charge? Jesus!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:11amNow the transformation begins in earnest; which faction will now strike the hardest and seize power in the land of Egypt and ignite the fires worldwide.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:22amsounds like you better run to your celler and wait it out!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:28am@Weeble
Remember, it took only one handful of people to start off the chain of events to ignite world war one
Report Post »tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:23pmsnowleopard- somewhat simplistic to lay the archduke ferdinand moment as the cause of ww1, vast array of socio-economic and political factors fuelled the fire
as for egypt well done to the egyptian people may freedom ring out across the mid-east, it will hopefully reignite the green movement in Iran and the mullahs will fall and take all the oil-kings with them
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:53pmYou are right, Snowleopard–but the handful were chiefly the autocratic rulers of Russia and the Central Powers, and their military chiefs, who chose war as a way of staving off the reforms which many of their subjects loudly demanded.
Report Post »stevefim5
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 6:13pmThis does not end well……
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:10amI will believe it when it is confirmed
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:37amHEY JOSEY
ever heard of the SUEZ CANAL?
get your hamster to look it up for you.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:46ambeckisnuts/glennis the menace/ecinom/exposejose…etc…
I am not displeased he stepped down. I don’t think Beck is either despite your misconception of the last few days that Beck supported him. My comment was made in light of the circus from yesterday.
but wait…I am trying to be rational with a troll that uses 20 aliases to fulfill his life’s mission of discrediting Glenn Beck…Never mind…Go back to sleep dude…
Report Post »patriotdale
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:18pmExposejose: and you call us ignorant,
Yes Glenn is just an entertainer, but one who happens to openly look at and talk about the issues, he may or may not be correct on all issues, but at least he brings them up for open conversation. When you would have us remain silent and accept only the truth as presented by whom?
These issues in Egypt do concern us; they will affect the stability of the Middle East and could affect the very freedom we here in the USA hold dear not to mention what will happen in Israel. I know the consciences would have us believe that the Muslim world is full of peace loving people, but many of their actions prove otherwise. No I don’t believe that all of them want Jihad but by mandate of their Muslim leadership all infidels must convert of die.
So yes we all should be careful what we ask for.
At least Glenn is not calling for you to shut your mouth; in fact he wants you to keep talking. You just continue to prove his points.
I spent most of my life asleep while the activist worked their corrupted ways. Now you have forced me to wake. Again BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR.
Now go ahead and call me ignorant because of my spelling and punctuation, go ahead.
You so smart.
Report Post »MatthewChapter24
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:41pmYeah–I’m so confused…he’s staying, he’s leaving, he’s going to Germany for medical help, he’s leaving, he’s standing firm until Sept, he’s gone. Oy!
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:10amBe careful what you wish for.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:23amYou’re right. The problem is I don‘t think they know what they’re wishing for. Let‘s hope it’s not The Muslim Brotherhood.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:26amPray for Isreal,
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:37amThe whitewashing of The Muslim Brotherhood in the our government and our media lately has been amazing.
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:56amIt’s their country, not yours. They’ll do what they need/want to do and it‘s none of our friggin’ business.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:59am@TexasCommonSense
Not now, but wait for the second wave. Hope it can be stopped.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:04pm@American Soldier that kind of attitude is what gave us WW 2. World events like this can affect the WHOLE world. Now as for meddling and those willing to sell their souls for a “piece of the pie” THOSE are the people that need to stay the hell out of the way.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:06pmAs long as the Army stays in control, backing the VP, the brotherhood will be kept at bay and Israel will be safe. If the Army does not continue to back the government it will result in chaos!
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:22pmIranian government to the oppressed citizens of Egypt: You have our full support in your endeavors to overthrow your government.
Iranian government to the oppressed citizens of Iran: You’ve got to ask yourself one question before you protest like an Egyptian…..Do I feel lucky?…..Well do ya punk?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:58pmBluebonnet
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:26am
Pray for Israel,
______________________________________
No truer words were ever spoken … they have to be wondering what the H Obama is thinking pushing for this REVOLUTION. God save the U.S.A. and Israel.
I think these 3 words would make a wonderful bumper sticker .. remind people daily!
PRAY FOR ISRAEL
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 8:10pm@rodamaa…
What you are about to witness is the taking of the entire middle east by islam… They will then try to push tiny Israel into the sea… The only thing that will stop it is Israel’s use of atomic weapons… Keyn mol vider… “Never Again!”
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:08am.
Report Post »OMG what the Hell is gonna happen now?
cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:12amThat’s the real question spank, I don’t think anyone knows either. It will be very interesting to see how this affects the entire region. I hope and pray that this turns out well for all people. I don’t see this as being good for Israel or the United States, but time will tell.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the confusion in Egypt video.
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:12amIt won’t stop.They hate the VP
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:12amHa, you beat me!
Now? I think the VP has the backing of the military. Will the people accept him? I don’t know…It is such a clusterF.
Report Post »Glenn_Melts_Down
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:13amMaybe Glenn’s head will finally explode. He looks pretty damn close on this video of his show last night. lol
I‘m just sayin’. Look at this video. Barney Fife looks like a laid back pot head compared to Glenn in this performance.
http://www.watchglennbeck.com/
Report Post »chuck_wagon
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:14amUnknown, what will be will be and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:16amMaybe Beck can join his favorite dictator in exile?
Boss J
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:18amI‘m wondering if Mubarak wasn’t “retired” by someone else.
Report Post »Gita
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:19am@Melts Do you have a clue what is going on in the middle east or are you so ignorant that all you care about is what Glenn is doing? It’s ignorance like yours that will be the downfall of life as we know it and you will walk blindly into the shower.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:19amWhat do you think is going to happen?
Most likely some sort of revolutionary honeymoon, followed by some serious jockeying for power among various liberal, left-wing and Islamist groups, muddled and disputed elections, more mass manifestations in the streets, a coup attempt or two.
I figure Egypt and the Middle East at large are about where Europe was in 1848.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:19amWhat happens now will largly depend upon which group is able to take and hold onto power. The troubles have only just begun for most of the world, and the next move is most likely to fall to the east of Iran, within the area of Pakistan and India and Afghanistan.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:23amIsrael better prepare. The Islamists will begin to exert control and the first target on their list will be Israel.
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9thCommandment
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:24amMilitary takes control, accepted till Sept elections. Claims of fraud elections, MB’s instigate chaos, Egypt falls to fanatics. Anal exams coming to an airport near you.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:26amYou are witnessing a mojor step in the radicalization of the Middle East.
Report Post »Within two years there is a great likelihood that the USA could be in a limited nuclear war in that region.
1- blackmail for oil
2. Israel is attacked
The only thing we have going for us is our military.
Our present civilian leadership is weak (understatement) – Weakness brings violence!–Cumbaya!!!
sWampy
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:26amHow long before Muslim Brotherhood pulls the first string, and oil shoots to $200 a barrel? This could give Obama his dream of skyrocketing energy costs with the bonus of his brothers in the mid east making the profits instead of Gore and Soros.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:29amKeep an eye out for second wave. Remember Iran.
sWampy
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:29amExposeJose I have met thousands of liberals, never known a single one that didn’t belong in a mental hospital or prison, yet they always accuse other perfectly sane people of being wrong or dishonest, it’s getting a little played out.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:30amCan we get a refund on our 1.3 billion in annual aid?
Report Post »FreedomFighter2006
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:31amI have an Egyptian friend over there who has no clue what’s going to happen now…
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:32amWhen does CNN start throwning the festive streamers and the Cali-phetti
and dont forget the Socialist party ballons.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:32amThe big question is whether the organizers of the protests have been given enough leeway and say in the new government to be happy for now and to tell the people to go back to work. If so, it will be quiet for a while… and it remains to be seen as to how the Suleiman/military v. Mo Bro’s will work out. Unless or until the military takes aggressive action, the “organizers” are in charge of the outcome. Certainly Obama and his nitwits don’t have much to offer anymore except irksome and inflaming rhetoric
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:37am.
Report Post »Iran and the Brotherhood will swoop in and take control faster than Moochell in a School Lunchroom……
My Two Cents
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:37amEXPOSEJOSE: Hopefully you aren’t including Clapper on your list of experts.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:37amand i was hopin to go to egypt sometime..check out the pyramids. lets hope. its not the end of the world. and if it was the end of the world, the only thing that matters is if we are prepared to meet our maker. i for one am not. nothing else is all that important in the grand scheme of things. these days were foretold by all the prophets from the beginning. all we can do is get our own houses in order, and go forth uprightly before the Lord
Report Post »NSDQ
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:38amOnce again all the Media Matters trolls can do is name call and present nothing substantial YAAWWWWNNN!
Report Post »Boss J
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:39am@ expoejose- I’m sure that you are one of these global warming whack jobs who believes that we are going to destroy the Earth with our cars so simmer down with the name calling.
@ Non-sequiter-I bet after 30 years of being under Islamic extremist rule I bet they will be begging us for help.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:39amHe let his people go, now he will retire to Zurich or maybe Hollywood, and live off his pension of 70Billion
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:42amWas watching FOX when it happened. Heard that Obama is going to speak and “explain what has happened” to the American people. Then I changed the channel to ManyStupidNewsBroadCasters and got sick when I heard Chris Matthews talking about how: “Obama would like to be in that crowd sharing the joy of the people!” I quickly returned to FOX to hear the news.
Matthews apparently is not aware that those people would like Obama to be among them as well! They would like it so much they would not let him go! I think I have finally been cured of hoping that the ManyStupidNewsBroadCasters bosses will ever clean house and get some people on their channel that have intelligence and personality. If I ever watch that network again it will be by accident and of very short duration.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:45amWow the Beck haters just can’t contain themselves……Seems a little hypocritical given Chris “I got a tingle” Matthews, or Joe “is that my foot in my mouth again” Biden, or Al “I invented the net” Gore, or Joy “the mouth” Behar, or Rosie “the man-child” O’ Donnell, or Bob “I just popped a vein” Beckel, or Ed “Kill Cheney” Schultz, Alec “My kid’s a pig” Baldwin, or Alan “I know he’s crazy but vote for him anyway” Grayson, or Keith “Our current health care system is worse than terrorism” Olberman, or Rachel “lookout for the green weenie” Maddow, or Barbara “call me senator” Boxer, or Maxine “redistribution” Waters. Just an observation.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:46amThe Caliphate begins….They will never see freedom only Sharia Law.
Report Post »ProgessiveFail
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:46amLOL @ the trolls in here. Beck terrifies them. Maybe you drones will convince us if you just repeat the same crap over and over. :)
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Report Post »– Mahatma Gandhi
Melvin Spittle
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:49amThis moment will be what loses Obama 2012. He will go down is a bigger international joke than Neville Chamberlain or Jimmy Carter. Saudi Arabia now questions the future of US-Saudi relations. This is the best example of Obama’s incompetence and total lack of a coherent international policy due to his utter lack of understanding. That is what happens when you surround your presidency with idiot appointments.
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:51amOk Obama, you sat in the big chair, now it’s time you let the adults handle this and clean up your mess.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:01pm@My Two Cents I would like to know that if Egypt God/Allah forbid it goes so extreme hamas will look sane. That we STOP ALL aid to Egypt……
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:04pmNow America has to get the people out on the streets after Sunday prayers.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:07pmIsrael will be attacked within the next 12 mos and then it’s showtime!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:13pmObama is going to make this out to be that Mubarak gave in to HIS demands to step down…this is going to do nothing but empower BO and his Moose-lamization of our country!
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:15pm@ExposeJose…last I checked Glenn saying YOU MUST is NOT a mandate.. OH like buying health care.. You are in AMERICA .. here‘s your choice DON’T DO IT.. or DO IT.. Looking at the lies coming out of Washington I am going to decide on the FACTS that I DON’T hear from our government and go with someone who 1. has been right more than wrong.. 2. isn’t mandating I do anything..3. who’s things we must do will NOT harm us in any way.. 4. has answered questions I have been asking my reps for the last 10 years… 5. IF he‘s wrong no harm no foal I have extra food and don’t have to shop.. IF now he’s right.. I am prepared.. which I prefer to be..
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:30pmSo, O’bum, who’s gonna torture the triple-size baddies for you now?
OOOH, I know! The MARXIST dictator in Yemen. You know, Yemen? Where the revolution got nowhere and a commie has been in charge for THIRTY YEARS? That country where The People also wanted change, but you chose to ignore? What a perfect place to get wicked, wicked Muslims tortured for you! Just make sure you order their tongues cut out, so they cannot report that you were behind this torture by proxy — just in case SOMEDAY Yemen falls to the resurrected Fatimid Caliphate.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:52pmHey you liberal trolls .. if they shut down the Suez Canal (Carter negotiated it away in 1979 – you might want to look this up and get “educated” ???) and gas goes WAY WAY UP UP UP ..the U.S. economy comes crashing down .. you think Obama gets reelected? … do you think the American People will put up with a “leader” who refuses to step down? Obama is clueless and cares NOTHING about the USA … things are likely to get very bad.
Report Post »REDPILLREADY
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:53pmThe only good news: Another radical Islamic regime achieves statehood = a HIGH VALUE TARGET.
Report Post »forestnomad
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:55pm“I don’t think anyone knows either.”
NOT TRUE! GLOBAL CALIPHATE! People noone have ever heard of like Van Jones and Frances Fox Piven assist Egypt in taking over country after country and instituting Sharia law!
Bwahahahhahahaha. Nutbags. These are the quotes from your boogeymen:
‘as a woman for the first time in my life I feel like I have been an equal part of something to change this country’
Report Post »‘for the first time in my life I feel hope, I have made a difference, and I can make Egypt a better country, a country where members of my family will feel safe moving back to’
“I just knew we had to win. The division between good and evil was so… so… obvious. It was something that was so good, so peaceful, so beautiful, we just knew it had to succeed.”
‘arabs have always had a terrible reputation for not having a …democracy around the world and now we want to prove them that we can do it’
‘I’ve never seen levels of happiness like this, I’ve seen people get married, give birth, and I’ve never seen people so happy as right now’
CatB
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:00pmRemember this …..
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/obama_stands_with_muslims_as_h.html
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:07pmBe careful what you ask for you just might get worse.
Read it and weep!
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random357
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:15pmI think he did the best thing for Egypt. How it will or will not effect the rest of the world is any one’s guess.
Report Post »avideditor
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:31pmIt looks like some one needs to take care of the Muslim Brotherhood or it is going to be a repeat of 79. The Muslim Brotherhood is jihadi http://avideditor.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/jihadis-in-their-own-words-on-how-the-muslim-brotherhood-is-jihadi-abridged-glenn-beck/
Report Post »firstlast
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 1:37pmsWampy
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 11:26am
How long before Muslim Brotherhood pulls the first string, and oil shoots to $200 a barrel? This could give Obama his dream of skyrocketing energy costs with the bonus of his brothers in the mid east making the profits instead of Gore and Soros.
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Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:24pmWhat is going to happen now is Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood) being installed. Hamas is celebrating in the streets and calling for people to celebrate his stepping down. Now why do that if so-called “democracy” is suddenly going to be a solution. It’s going to get very ugly and soon.
Report Post »redyanqui
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:27pmThe revolution has just begun. the toppling of a leader means construction begins. Suleiman will probably be forced out and there may even be demands for the dissolving of the National Democratic Party.
The Egyptian blockade of Gaza will probably be lifted bringing urgently needed medicine and food.
And honestly, this will spread. If the Tunisian revolution caused the Egyptian revolution, no strongman can hold the will of the people down.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:37pmclueless idiots that will get what they deserve….slavery.
Report Post »REDPILLREADY
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 5:07pmWhat just happened was Obama gloating and savoring the moment in his press conference. Didn’t even turn up the volume, the facial and body language said it all. Clearly a satisfying and exhilerating moment for Mr. community organizer. Its ALL underway folks. Its time to know what you believe and are willing to stand for….
Report Post »stevefim5
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 6:09pmStand by people, the ride is only going to get more bumpy from here on out….
Report Post »Pose
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 7:58pmThey might be singing in the streets to the tune of Allah Na Na, Allah Na Na, Hey Hey Goodbye. But I just have a feeling that ALL Music will be off limits more sooner than later.
Report Post »avideditor
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 7:59pmObama just sentenced Millions of Copts in Egypt and Jews in Israel to death http://avideditor.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/pro-jihadi-obama-sentences-millions-of-coptic-christians-and-israeli-jews-to-death/
Report Post »truthbetold11
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 9:27pmSo obama wants credit? So let the broadcasts begin round the world USA CHRISTIAN PRESIDENT OBAMA FREED EGYPT.
Report Post »cbrown
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 10:01pmIf Regan was the President, what would he do? Options:
1) Support Mubark from day 1 and ask him to crush the protesters?
2) Send troops to Egypt
3) Help the young folks (incl Google Exec) to organize and form an alternative political party
It would be option 3. There is no reason for me to doubt the following narrative. Wael Ghonim (Google Exec) created a FB page to organize (Tunisia was the inspiration) the protest on Jan 25th. Other folks joined in. There was a pent up frustration with a dictator (30 yr rule). This seems like a genuine bottom-up peaceful movement. Mubark/Army could not bring themselves to crush the protesters and was forced to leave.
Pres. Reagan would have cheered on the the folks who cried out for democracy and be free!! He would have found ways to support them to organize and transform their energy into a viable political party. It will be chaotic but that is what democracy is. That is difference between US and China. At the end our system is the best, time will prove this again with Egypt.
Report Post »Shelly
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 3:50amRevolution: Egypt – Twitter Style
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh3z5SgygS8
plunderpower
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 12:46pmI hope Hugo Chavez is shaking in his boots. The Obamunists think this is going to silence the Conservatives in this country. Liberals are still a minority, still destroy everything they touch, and still are the same loons they were before Egypt blew up in their faces. Notice how they rush to equate themselves with miserable, screaming people? The Obamunists state that Egypt has inspired the people of the United States. The big clue here is the majority of Americans were already inspired to take their country back from these idiots. The only one‘s needing inspired are the one’s that Hopey-Changey failed. Obamunism stinks. Stunk like a skunk before Mubarak resigned, and stunk like a skunk after he resigned…maybe even more so now.
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