Guess the egyptians dont want a US handpicked torture puppet

lol

i for one am glad...

Who would want anyone picked by the US after seeing who we picked for ourselves in the last presidential election?

The Other One wrote:

Who would want anyone picked by the US after seeing who we picked for ourselves in the last presidential election?

you mean "who we gave them in their last election/coup some 30 yrs ago"?

why are all of the photographs of schmoozing american presidents and third world dictators of republican presidents?

robert wrote:

why are all of the photographs of schmoozing american presidents and third world dictators of republican presidents?

Like this one?



And this one?

yeah... exactly like that... you've given us photos of what the average "librul" calls a "dino" and while progressives vote for them they dont necessarily subscribe to all of their beliefs... dems will attack a centrist dem, a rethuglican will not... and center isnt the way the world needs to be right now as we sit upon the precipice of a new and frightening future.

we are all egypt now... we just dont know it yet...

do u have any with a dem president and bin laden?

guess youll be able to soon find one with suleiman... the guy bush endorsed cause he tortures people and "loves" israel...

After almost three weeks of intense street protests in Egypt demanding the removal of President Hosni Mubarak from power, more than 300 people were reported to have died in clashes between demonstrators, police and government supporters. Despite concessions such as Mubarak's pledge to not run in the presidential election scheduled for September and constitutional reform, the number of protesters in Tahrir Square in central Cairo swelled on Feb. 8. On that day, the crowd gave a hero's welcome to Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who had set up a Facebook page that many credit with inspiring the massive protests, after he was freed from 12 days in jail.

Four days after the protests began, embattled president Mubarak appointed Omar Suleiman his vice president, a man who had served as chief of Egypt's General Intelligence Service since 1993. A Mubarak loyalist, Suleiman has taken a leading role in the government's attempt to negotiate with Egypt's diverse civil society groups demanding Mubarak's immediate removal from office. Suleiman has met with representatives of the opposition to launch committees tasked with proposing constitutional reforms and a timetable for a peaceful transfer of power.

But there are many questions about the role Suleiman has played in the Mubarak regime. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Lisa Hajjar, associate professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She discusses her recent article, "Suleiman: The CIA's Man in Cairo and Egypt's Torturer-in-Chief," which looks at Suleiman's cooperation with the United States' rendition of terrorist suspects to Egypt under the Clinton administration, to post-9/11 changes of Egyptian torture by proxy under President Bush.

Read Lisa Hajjar's original article, "Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo and Egypt's Torturer-in-Chief," published in the Jadaliyya e-zine she co-edits.

http://www.btlonline.org/2011/seg/110218af-btl-hajjar.html