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O-BAM-A! O-BAM-A! O-BAM-A!
Join with me, folks...
HIL-LAR-Y! HIL-LAR-Y! HIL-LAR-Y!
Round and round we go... who Obama supports nobody really knows!
As I blog I usually listen to news/talk radio. Apparently our beloved Commander-In-Chief is quite upset with the Egyptian military... the Egyptian military which he supported when they recently "dealt with" Morsi... the same Egyptian military which he provides copious amounts of U.S. taxpayer direct aid to (with the cooperation of both Democrats and RINOs in Congress)... the same Egyptian military which he chided for having supported Mubarak, then applauded for "allowing" Morsi to be elected, then...
(*SIGH*)
And back to square one we go!
Anyway... congrats to BHO and HRC (with a "respectful" nod to John Kerry) for "changing the world."
Yep. We're in a new Cold War with Russia.
The Chinese hold us in contempt and view us as their enemy while we pathetically do all in our power to pretend that there's some "mirror reality" where the Chinese are our friends.
God help us, folks!
Anyway... I'll post Egypt-related newsbites in this post's comment section - at least for today.
4 comments:
* THREE-PARTER... (Part 1 of 3)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_EGYPT?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-14-11-55-48
Riot police swept in with armored vehicles, bulldozers and helicopters Wednesday to clear two sprawling encampments of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, sparking running street battles elsewhere in Cairo and other Egyptian cities.
* SO... FILLING IN THE BLANKS... THESE "SPRAWLING ENCAMPMENTS OF MORSI SUPPORTERS" INCLUDED ARMED ELEMENTS... THUS... "RUNNING STREET BATTLES."
At least 149 people were killed nationwide, many of them in the assaults on the protest vigils.
* SOMEHOW I DOUBT IT'S QUITE THAT SIMPLE...
(*SMIRK*)
The military-backed interim government...
* THE OBAMA-BACKED INTERIM GOVERNMENT... RIGHT? (AT LEAST IT WAS!)
...declared a month-long state of emergency, ordering the armed forces to support the police in efforts to restore law and order and protect state facilities. A nighttime curfew for Cairo and 10 provinces also was put into effect.
* SOUNDS REASONABLE TO ME...
Clashes also broke out elsewhere in the capital and other provinces, injuring more than 1,400 people nationwide as Islamist anger spread over the crackdown on the 6-week-old sit-ins of Morsi supporters that [have] divided the country. Police stations, government buildings and Coptic Christian churches were attacked or set ablaze.
* IS IT ME, FOLKS, OR IS THERE A BIT OF A DISCONNECT BETWEEN THIS "NEWS REPORT" DESCRIBING "SUPPORTERS OF MORSI" THEN "PROTEST VIGILS [SUPPORTING MORSI] THEN "SIT-INS"... ONLY TO THEN - AFTER SETTING A SCENE OF "PEACEFUL PROTEST" - GOING ON TO REPORT "POLICE STATIONS, GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND COPTIC CHRISTIAN CHURCHES ATTACKED AND/OR SET ABLAZE?"
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 3)
The violence drew condemnation from other predominantly Muslim countries, but also from the U.N. and the United States, which said the crackdown will only make it more difficult for Egypt to move forward.
* SO... er... umm... THE MILITARY AND POLICE (WHICH OBAMA AND THE DEMS AND RINOs IN CONGRESS SUBSIDIZE WITH OUR TAXPAYER MONEY... AND MONEY BORROWED FROM CHINA) RESTORING ORDER IS... er... BAD...???
* WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO "POLICE STATIONS, GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND COPTIC CHRISTIAN CHURCHES ATTACKED AND/OR SET ABLAZE." I DIDN'T HEAR MUCH CONDEMNATION OF THIS FROM OBAMA AS IT WAS HAPPENING... DID ANY OF YOU...???
Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reform leader in the interim government, resigned in protest over the crackdown. He wrote that he is not prepared to be held responsible for a "single drop of blood," and that only more violence will result, according to a copy of his letter to interim President Adly Mansour that was emailed to The Associated Press.
* AND YET... "POLICE STATIONS, GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AND COPTIC CHRISTIAN CHURCHES ATTACKED AND/OR SET ABLAZE" DIDN'T PROMPT ACTION FROM ELBARADEI.
(*SHRUG*)
* SOUNDS LIKE ELBARADEI AND OBAMA WOULD GET ALONG FAMOUSLY!
(*SNORT*)
The Egyptian Central Bank instructed commercial banks to close branches in areas affected by the chaos, a sign of alarm that the violence could spiral out of control. The landmark Giza Pyramids and the Egyptian Museum also were closed to visitors for the day as a precaution, according to the Ministry of Antiquities.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The smaller of the two camps was cleared of protesters by late morning, with most of them taking refuge in the nearby Orman botanical gardens on the campus of Cairo University and the zoo. ... The private ONTV network showed firearms and rounds of ammunition allegedly seized from protesters there.
Security forces later stormed the larger camp in the Cairo district of Nasr City and were closing in on the Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque that has served as the epicenter of pro-Morsi campaign. Several wanted Brotherhood leaders were believed to be hiding in the mosque.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 3 of 3)
The pro-Morsi Anti-Coup alliance claimed that security forces used live ammunition, but the Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police, said its forces only used tear gas and that they came under fire from the camp.
The Interior Ministry statement also warned that forces would deal firmly with protesters who were acting "irresponsibly," suggesting that it would respond in kind if its men are fired upon. It said it would guarantee safe passage to all who want to leave the Nasr City site but would arrest those wanted for questioning by prosecutors.
Army troops did not take part in the two operations, but provided security at the locations. Police and army helicopters hovered over both sites as smoke rose over the skyline hours after the police launched the simultaneous actions shortly after 7 a.m. (0500 GMT).
The Health Ministry said 149 people were killed and 1,403 injured across Egypt, but it did not immediately provide a breakdown.
The Muslim Brotherhood's political arm claimed that more than 500 protesters were killed and some 9,000 wounded in the two camps, but those figures could not be confirmed and nothing in the video from AP or local TV networks suggested such a high death toll.
Churches belonging to Egypt's minority Coptic Christians were torched in four provinces south of Cairo - Minya, Assiut, Sohag and the desert oasis Fayoum.
In the city of Bani Suef south of Cairo, protesters set three police cars on fire.
Farther south in the Islamist stronghold of Assiut, police used tear gas to disperse pro-Morsi crowds in the city center.
Morsi supporters want him reinstated and are boycotting the military-sponsored political process, which includes amending the Islamist-backed constitution adopted last year and holding parliamentary and presidential elections early next year.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest, speaking at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where President Barack Obama is vacationing, said the crackdown ran counter to the pledges made by Egypt's interim government.
(*HEADACHE*)
* AND YET... OBAMA HASN'T DEMANDED MORSI'S REINSTATEMENT.
(*SMIRK*)
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2013/0814/A-massacre-in-Cairo-and-a-failure-of-US-diplomacy-in-Egypt
Since the military coup that ousted the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi from the Egyptian presidency on July 3, the Obama administration has bent over backwards not to call it a "coup."
[A]nd to continue military aid. ($1.3 billion annually.)
* YEP!
State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki was pressed last week on whether the Obama administration thought Egypt's military had carried out a coup. "We have determined that we do not need to make a determination," she said.
* FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!
Today, the military and Gen. Abdel Fatah Sisi, delivered the military's own determination: We're going ahead and doing it our way.
* MAKES SENSE... ESPECIALLY IN CONTEXT...
This morning Obama White House Spokesman Josh Earnest said that the U.S. is opposed to the state of emergency declared by Egypt's military, which gives it sweeping powers, much as a state of emergency after the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981 formed the backbone of the military-backed Mubarak dictatorship that prevailed until 2011.
* THE PRO-U.S., PRO-WESTERN MUBARAK GOVERNMENT THAT OBAMA CHEER-LED THE TOPPLING OF...
Earnest also said that the U.S. is [still] not ready to determine whether Egypt has had a military coup.
* BUT HE DOESN'T LIKE THE... er... NON-COUP... (*SCRATCHING MY HEAD*)... NOT AS YET RECOGNIZED AS A COUP...??? (ARE YOU FOLLOWING ALL THIS, FOLKS?)
He said Egypt's interim rulers have promised a swift creation of a democracy and "it's a promise we're going to encourage them to keep."
* A DEMOCRACY AGAIN LED BY MORSI...? (OR ANOTHER MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBER...???)
* FOLKS... THIS ADMINISTRATION IS TOTALLY INCOMPETENT AND CONSTANTLY OFFENDS (AND CONFUSES, NO DOUBT) BOTH FRIENDS AND FOES!
[The Obama Administration has created} an atmosphere of fury and distrust. U.S. influence with the military has proven negligible so far. The Muslim Brotherhood now views the US claims about supporting democracy as hypocritical, since it stood by as an elected president was ousted. And the Brotherhood's secular-leaning political opponents are angry at the failure of the U.S. to provide full-throated backing to the military and American willingness to work with Morsi when he was Egypt's elected president.
It's a truism that you can't please everybody. But in the case of Egypt, the U.S. has pleased precisely no one.
* NOT "THE U.S." THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION. FRONT AND CENTER: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA; DISHONORABLE MENTION: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON; THIRD PLACE... BRINGING UP THE REAR: JOHN "THE JACKASS" KERRY.
And the Arab world's most populous country is heading into a period of turmoil likely to dwarf the troubles of the past few years.
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