When asked this morning on NBC’s Meet the Press whether Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is a partner of the United States or a problem, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee simply responded “yes.”
“Some of both,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.).
Protests erupted in Egypt after the first post-Arab Spring president issued sweeping edicts that give him power over all oversight bodies and over the judiciary branch.
Egypt’s stock market index plunged nearly 10 percent today as police fired tear gas at protesters accusing Morsi of a blatant power grab, the Associated Press reported.
“But even though there’s great concern, I think we have to be very cautious,” Levin said. “We don’t obviously want to see a democratically- elected autocrat take the place of an undemocratically-elected dictator which was the case before that. On the other hand, there are some real pluses that are possible here: If Egypt takes some real responsibility for making the ceasefire work, we’ll stop those missiles from going through those tunnels into Gaza and they seem to be moving in that direction.”
The senator said President Obama needs to express his concerns to Morsi, saying “we want this change to be not just be democratic but to also be supportive of stability and also to be protecting minorities and human rights in Egypt.”
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said “could be headed” toward an Islamist state via coup.
“What should the United States of America do? They should be saying this is unacceptable,” he said. “We thank Mr. Morsi for his efforts in brokering a cease-fire, which is, by the way, incredibly fragile but is not what is acceptable. This is not what the United States and American taxpayers expect and our dollars will be directly related to the progress towards democracy, which you promised the people of Egypt, when your party and you were elected president.”
“Renounce the statement, and the move that he just made. Allow the judiciary to function,” McCain suggested. “If the judiciary is flawed in some way, then, that’s an illness that can be cured over time. But, absolutely, to assume this kind of power is unacceptable to the United States of America and, then, we can outline what actions might be taken. But, first, condemn it.”
The last communication with Morsi released by the White House was Wednesday, when Obama called the Egyptian leader to thank him “for his efforts to achieve a sustainable ceasefire and for his personal leadership in negotiating a ceasefire proposal.”
“President Obama reaffirmed the close partnership between the United States and Egypt, and welcomed President Morsi’s commitment to regional security,” the White House said.
If we swapped Eqypt, Obama for Morsi, how would anyone even be able to tell the difference? Both want absolute power and hate individual rights and the rule of law. There is not a dimes worth of difference between them.
It already is an Islamist State.
The only good news, is that we now have recourse to total war.
Here is the short and long of it, regarding Morsi and his intentions – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/13/coming-full-circle-the-planned-empowerment-of-the-muslim-mafia-aka-brotherhood-via-egypt-most-populous-arab-country-under-the-guidance-of-barack-hussein-obama-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
And none of this would have been possible without the Islamist/Pyromaniac-in-Chief. And the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia, with Morsi as its Islamist/Shariah based Prez in Egypt, is gunning for America too. Its tentacled hydra is DEEPLY embedded within all of Washington’s power centers, and is getting ready to pounce.
There is SO Much more to tell….
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General Wesley Clark: Because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11.
About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.” I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said, “Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw&feature=player_embedded
Huh??!! We are approaching year five of the Obama era, can’t we finally get beyond Bush Derangement Syndrome?
“Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime … He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation … And now he is miscalculating America’s response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction … So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real…”
– Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
“I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force — if necessary — to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.”
– Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.”
– President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
– President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
“We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.”
– Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998
“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”
– Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
– Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
“Hussein has … chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.”
– Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
“We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”
– Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
“Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”
– Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.”
– Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
“In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.”
– Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
Thanks for the reminder. Its good to remind the loons whenever they get into their “Bush lied people died” chant to break the rhythm.
Well the loons are loons a loon is always a loon and for the rest of his life.
Now,the chant is:
Obama lied
Four Americans died
Obama lied
Chris Stevens was sodomised.
You should see the way people react when I say it.
The KGB was right when they used to say. What concerns us is not what you say,but the way people react to what you say.
A whole lot of major democrats sure seemed to have a hammer and wanted to use it. Of course, the fact that they pushed and pushed and pushed to go to war with Iraq is now all down the Memory Hole.
Yes I thought this was Bill Clinton that started it.May be
I was told wrong.Can someone enlighten me?
i might be wong,but I thought this all started under Bill Clinton.Can someone enlighten me?
Egypt wants to junk the peace treaty with Israel. They can do so in two ways. They can use their influence over Hamas like an on-off water faucet of rockets to extort concessions from America instead of the peace treaty.
Morsi can also manipulate agitation with Egypt’s own border with Israel to show how it is in Israel’s best interest to allow the Egyptian military to operate in the Sinai in a manner currently at odds with the treaty.
Morsi risks a lot with this ploy but also stands to gain. If he is caught out he loses credibility with the West which he doesn’t really care about anyway. He would gain credibility with the Arab states as being on the forefront of the fight against what the Arabs see as colonial remnants of the old days and old ways. Egypt wants to regain its status as the premier Arab state in the region. Turkey is useful but they are Turks, a country whose own colonial influence in Egypt didn’t disappear until Nasser.
Morsi is not a cautious man – except for all matters concerning Israel, he doesn’t have the backing of all of Egypt’s various institutions large and small. The army certainly has no love for Morsi. No matter how much Egyptians like a strong man in power, they won’t put up with one who is not elected again. Morsi is moving too fast and alienating the people who probably voted for him in a close nearly 50/50 Presidential election. They may not do so again now that they’ve seen the whiff of Mubarak about him.
– question.
….answer.
Well I do remember that Obama did not really know.The farcical show continues.Putin and any other learders,they know who are their allies and friends.Lucky that I do not the intellect ofr Obama and his clique,cohort,coterie of scumbags,I don’t have this problem.I know!
Money, strength and Islam is what this nonsense is all about. Egypt wants money so they can become strong and the cronies rich, then they will send their people to strike the infidels in the name of Islam. How that for plain and simple. Does not take a politician to figure this out.
Only the total idiots in Congress cannot see that Morsi is the new Egyptian Stalin and the Muslim Brotherhood are the new Bolsheviks.
Morsi is to Stalin as Czar Nicholas was to Mubarak.
The notion of an Arab “spring” is a sick joke; an invention of the morons in our govt and our media. The arab spring will bring freedom and light to the arabs in the same manner as Lenin brought the same to “kulaks” (another invented group to exterminate) and Hitler to the jews.
If this is not bad enough, the criminally negligent, stupid morons in Congress will be sending over to the new egyptian Hitler/Stalin a few billion dollars of US taxpayer money. This is beyond comprehension.
The USA is broke, bankrupt; and “our” govt. is sending those SOBs our money.
And folks wonder why we are hearing talk of secession.
Frankly, I am almost at the point where I think secession is the only way to free ourselves from the joke, the tyranny that is our govt.
You may call our govt what you wish, but it certainly is not a CONSTITUTIONAL republic.