Rod Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 I for a change would like to see hordes of young Americans attempting to storm the Egyptian Embassy in D.C., ripping the Egyptian flag out and replacing it with the Gadsden flag (don't thread on me), infuriated about the dishonor to their Embassy and Flag. More likely said would be revolutionaries would be too busy taking photos of themselves and posting on Facebook and FourSquare while the D.C. police would not hesitate to send in the K-9 force on them without mercy, pepper-spraying and punching protesters worse than the OWS protesters had.
pikachu Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 More likely said would be revolutionaries would be too busy taking photos of themselves and posting on Facebook and FourSquare while the D.C. police would not hesitate to send in the K-9 force on them without mercy, pepper-spraying and punching protesters worse than the OWS protesters had. I'm sorry to say this, but the bolded bit alone proves they deserve the K-9s.
Simon Tan Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 (edited) Sorry...busy staring at faded Obama poster.Full circle.....32 years on, another Islamic revolutions, American embassies and wet tissue president.How can Embassy Cairo make a statement before getting it green lit by DC????? This is the ambassador, Anne W. Patterson. She is a career DOS person. Been in the job since 6/30/11. Been in DOS since 1973(!) Edited September 12, 2012 by Simon Tan
DKTanker Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 (edited) Sorry...busy staring at faded Obama poster.Full circle.....32 years on, another Islamic revolutions, American embassies and wet tissue president.How can Embassy Cairo make a statement before getting it green lit by DC????? This is the ambassador, Anne W. Patterson. She is a career DOS person. Been in the job since 6/30/11. Been in DOS since 1973(!)Whether or not that statement was approved by DC, the WH now says it stands by that statement. Edit. My mistake, apparently the WH did not say it stood by the statement, Hillary is the one that reaffirmed the apology. Although there are somewhat contradictory statements put out by the WH and State Dept., the WH has yet to renounce the earlier State Dept apology. Edited September 12, 2012 by DKTanker
Soren Ras Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 Yeah, this whole "leading from behind" thing is really working out great. --Soren
DKTanker Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 Yeah, this whole "leading from behind" thing is really working out great. --SorenWhen confronted with his own 9/11 moment our Dear Leader chose to punt.
Simon Tan Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 On 9/11 no less. The wicked witch is dead. Her 2016 run died in Benghazi and Cairo. Bill whored himself for nuttin. God does indeed work in mysterious ways.
thekirk Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 On 9/11 no less. The wicked witch is dead. Her 2016 run died in Benghazi and Cairo. Bill whored himself for nuttin. God does indeed work in mysterious ways. I think you underestimate the power of a fully operational Media Death Star . By the time she's going to run in 2016, this will have been buried under a flood of other trivia, she'll be rehabilitated in the public eye, and the whole thing will start over again. I figure she's going to spend the next four years as a civilian "eminence grise", snarking from the sidelines. When 2016 rolls around, she'll be firmly ensconced as an Elder Statesman , and ready to run again. On the other hand, maybe she'll be next to me in the breadline. One can hope.
Simon Tan Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 That would be a very upscle breadline in Manhattan...... serving toasted focaccia and lobster bisque no doubt.
thekirk Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 That would be a very upscle breadline in Manhattan...... serving toasted focaccia and lobster bisque no doubt. I'm thinking Manhattan to be a smoking hole in the ground, under that scenario. And, that she'll be wearing a burqha.
X-Files Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 I figure she's going to spend the next four years as a civilian "eminence grise", snarking from the sidelines. ... with more blood on her hands than Lady MacBeth. Meanwhile, far from the White House briefing room...http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-obama-skipping-more-than-half-of-his-daily-intelligence-meetings/2012/09/10/6624afe8-fb49-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html
NickM Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 Sorry...busy staring at faded Obama poster.Full circle.....32 years on, another Islamic revolutions, American embassies and wet tissue president.How can Embassy Cairo make a statement before getting it green lit by DC????? This is the ambassador, Anne W. Patterson. She is a career DOS person. Been in the job since 6/30/11. Been in DOS since 1973(!)Whether or not that statement was approved by DC, the WH now says it stands by that statement. Edit. My mistake, apparently the WH did not say it stood by the statement, Hillary is the one that reaffirmed the apology. Although there are somewhat contradictory statements put out by the WH and State Dept., the WH has yet to renounce the earlier State Dept apology. This is starting to sound like the opening credits for Holy Grail: "Those who sacked those who created the opening credits have been also sacked"
BP Posted September 12, 2012 Posted September 12, 2012 I for a change would like to see hordes of young Americans attempting to storm the Egyptian Embassy in D.C., ripping the Egyptian flag out and replacing it with the Gadsden flag (don't thread on me), infuriated about the dishonor to their Embassy and Flag.More likely said would be revolutionaries would be too busy taking photos of themselves and posting on Facebook and FourSquare while the D.C. police would not hesitate to send in the K-9 force on them without mercy, pepper-spraying and punching protesters worse than the OWS protesters had. If it counts, a college buddy shinnied up the flagpole at the consulate of a small South American country and unclipped the flag for his media room after a particularly boozy night of karaoke at a Japanese restaurant in DC.
BansheeOne Posted September 16, 2012 Posted September 16, 2012 Armed Conflict Islamists attack Egyptian security base Islamist militants in Egypt have attacked the army’s security headquarters in northern Sinai. Militias have stepped up attacks on the peninsula since the ouster of former leader Hosni Mubarak. Security sources said on Sunday that the militants climbed onto the roofs of buildings near to the headquarters - and used their positions to fire rocket-propelled grenades into the headquarters. Machine gun battles also took place in the streets around the building, witnesses told the news agency Reuters. In a separate incident near the Gaza strip, some 30 armored personnel carriers backed up by helicopters fought militants in the town of Sheikh Zuwaid. The attacks were suspected to have been carried out in revenge for a series of arrests of radical Islamists on Wednesday, an unnamed security official told the German news agency DPA. That operation was launched in response to an attack on an Egyptian army post in which 16 soldiers lost their lives. Some 33 militants have been killed since then, with many other suspected militia members arrested. An international peacekeeping camp came under attack by gunmen on Friday, with the army later restoring control of the area. Since Mubarak was toppled, militants have conducted a number of raids on security targets as well as on a pipeline that exports gas to Israel. http://www.dw.de/dw/...6244391,00.html
X-Files Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 A correspondent for France 24 TV was 'savagely attacked' near Cairo's Tahrir Square after being seized by a crowd, the network said on Saturday. The news channel said in a statement that Sonia Dridi was attacked around 10:30pm on Friday after a live broadcast on a protest at the square and was later rescued by a colleague and other witnesses. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220849/Sonia-Dridi-attack-Female-reporter-savagely-attacked-groped-Cairo-live-broadcast-French-TV-news-channel.html#ixzz29zRa8D00
Simon Tan Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 Filthy Jezebel. How dare she go around scantily clad like that?
BansheeOne Posted November 23, 2012 Posted November 23, 2012 Be interesting to see whether this stands. The last times, not so much. Egypt's Mursi called "pharaoh" for seizing new powers By Edmund Blair and Marwa AwadCAIRO | Fri Nov 23, 2012 8:06am EST (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi's decree exempting all his decisions from legal challenge until a new parliament was elected caused fury amongst his opponents on Friday who accused him of being the new Hosni Mubarak and hijacking the revolution. Mursi's aides said the decree was to speed up a protracted transition that has been hindered by legal obstacles but Mursi's rivals were quick to condemn him as a new autocratic pharaoh who wanted to impose his Islamist vision on Egypt. "Mursi a 'temporary' dictator," was the headline in the independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm and hundreds of protesters in Tahrir Square, the heart of the 2011 anti-Mubarak uprising, demanded Mursi quit, accusing him of launching a "coup". Buoyed by accolades from around the world for mediating a truce between Hamas and Israel, Mursi on Thursday ordered that an Islamist-dominated assembly writing the new constitution could not be dissolved by legal challenges. Mursi, an Islamist whose roots are in the Muslim Brotherhood party, also gave himself sweeping powers that allowed him to sack the unpopular general prosecutor and opened the door for a retrial for Mubarak and his aides. The president's decree aimed to end the logjam and push Egypt, the Arab world's most populous nation, more quickly on its democratic path, the presidential spokesman said. "President Mursi said we must go out of the bottleneck without breaking the bottle," Yasser Ali told Reuters. The president said any decrees he issued while no parliament sat could not be challenged, moves that consolidated his powers but look set to polarize Egypt further, threatening more turbulence in a nation at the heart of the Arab Spring. "The people want to bring down the regime," shouted protesters in Tahrir, echoing one of the chants that was used in the uprising that forced Mubarak to step down. "ANOTHER DICTATOR" The decree is bound to worry Western allies, particularly the United States, a generous benefactor to Egypt's army, which effusively praised Egypt for its part in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to a ceasefire on Wednesday. The West may become concerned about measures that, for example, undermine judicial independence. But one Western diplomat said it was too early to judge and his nation would watch how the decree was exercised in the coming days. "We are very concerned about the possible huge ramifications of this declaration on human rights and the rule of law in Egypt," Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay, said at the United Nations in Geneva. "The decree is basically a coup on state institutions and the rule of law that is likely to undermine the revolution and the transition to democracy," Mervat Ahmed, an independent activist in Tahrir protesting against the decree, said. "I worry Mursi will be another dictator like the one before him." Leading liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei, who joined other politicians on Thursday night to demand the decree was withdrawn, wrote on his Twitter account that Mursi had "usurped all state powers and appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh". Almost two years after Mubarak was toppled and about five months since Mursi took office, propelled to the post by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt has no permanent constitution, which must be in place before new parliamentary elections are held. The last parliament, that sat for the first time earlier this year, was dissolved after a court declared it void. It was dominated by the Brotherhood's political party. AIM TO END INSTABILITY An assembly drawing up the constitution has yet to complete its work. Many liberals, Christians and others have walked out accusing the Islamists who dominate it of ignoring their voices over the extent that Islam should be enshrined in the new state. Opponents call for the assembly to be scrapped and remade. Mursi's decree protects the existing one and extends the deadline for drafting a document by two months, pushing it back to February, further delaying a new parliamentary poll. Explaining the rationale behind the moves, the presidential spokesman said: "This means ending the period of constitutional instability to arrive at a state with a written constitution, an elected president and parliament." [...] http://www.reuters.c...E8AM0DO20121123
RETAC21 Posted November 23, 2012 Posted November 23, 2012 Egyptians less than happy, feedback provided
Simon Tan Posted November 23, 2012 Posted November 23, 2012 Non....monsieur is confused. The revolution would never betray the people.
Mike Steele Posted November 23, 2012 Posted November 23, 2012 Non....monsieur is confused. The revolution would never betray the people. But it will be televised, so yea!
mnm Posted November 27, 2012 Posted November 27, 2012 Spring? Here is another episode of Winter of Our Discontent. (Reuters) - Opponents of President Mohamed Mursi rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a fifth day on Tuesday, stepping up calls to scrap a decree they say threatens Egypt with a new era of autocracy.http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/us-egypt-president-idUSBRE8AM0DO20121127 In the meantime a former Nobel Peace Prize is being dug up in an attempt to stick it to those Pesky Joos. (Reuters) - Forensic experts took samples from Yasser Arafat's buried corpse in the West Bank on Tuesday, trying to determine if he was murdered by Israeli agents using the hard-to-trace radioactive poison, Polonium.http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/us-palestinians-arafat-idUSBRE8AP1A120121127
Jeff Posted November 28, 2012 Posted November 28, 2012 Forensic experts took samples from Yasser Arafat's buried corpse So, how did they get samples from a "buried corpse"?
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