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RobAla says:
He has a good point, as there are things worse than Mubarak. I was sickened to see the Palestinians elect the terrorist group Hammas to lead them. If the Muslim Brotherhood is elected to rule Egypt, it will be a disaster.
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jimbom121 replies:
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Egypyt is much different than the Palestinians, who have been corrupt since the beginning. Arafat was also a terrorist.
WeHappyFew replies:
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As was Menachem Begin.
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WeHappyFew says:
Hey John, how about Saddam? He was doing a tidy job suppressing radical Islam (and everyone else in Iraq). Now, thanks to the US invasion, its all over the country like a rash, well funded and well supported.
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WeHappyFew says:
America is going to have to learn fairly quickly that ensuring its security by forcing its will on other nations is rapidly disappearing as an option. Ahead of expectations China's economy has already exceeded Japan's and economists are revising down estimates to less than 15 years before it overtakes the US. China's economy is predicted to continue growing exponentially beyond this point.

Chinas global interests will take precedence over that of the US. I hope America has cultivated a nice line in diplomacy by then because if China's African and Central Asian 'pet' states want to radicalize and consolidate, I can't see Beijing being too bothered by allowing and aiding them to have their way.
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thinking-voter replies:
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Bribing other countries to be friendly to us while we quietly exploit whatever we can from them is also taking some serious hits. We need to learn how to compete with China and so far .... we aren't even bothering to understand them, let alone learn how to compete.
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KPeters_from_UK says:
by February 13, 2011
Two weeks ago Coptic Christians were slain in Egypt by radicaal Muslims. Radical Muslims burn down Christian churches, and the Muslim Brotherhood is waiting in the wings.
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Nope! The Tea baggers once again playing fast and loose with the facts. The Muslim Brotherhood DID NOT kill the Coptic Christians. Please do some reading. Look it up!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12101748
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thinking-voter replies:
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Teabaggers just lubs their broad brushes. LOL
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nearl451 says:
It seems that Bolton had similar reservations on US democracy in 2000 when he led a charge into Brouard County Offices chanting "Stop the count; Stop the count".

In short, if you are going to insist on "cherry picking" the outcome, then there is no true representative choice. With stat stated, what comes out of the US primaries are rather pre-selelcted by money interests anyway, thus skewing any chance for true representation of the people. Entities and money, yes; Populus- not really.
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meggafish says:
John Bolton is bad news. I don't understand why anyone would give him a platform to comment from. He sings the same old song; put him out to pasture
with the rest of the neo-cons (Zionists) who have totally ruined the nation for generations to come.
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noloyalisti says:
Egypt had the Bolton Neocon form of democracy and freedom: a single firm father figure dictator who could be manipulated by the American Corporation. There was the freedom for a few people to concentrate all the wealth of the middle classes an poor just like in modern America. There were the few evil rich like Mubarek who could do whatever they wanted and break whatever laws they wanted for political and financial gain, just like in the current United States.

This is the Bolton-Conservative-Republican Neocon dream of absolute power and domination of the many by the few. Seems to be working real well here in America, too.
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thinking-voter replies:
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You make very valid and important points. Well said.
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jimatmadison says:
John Bolton won't stop being wrong until he's been dead a long time and everything he's ever written or said has been published or broadcast.

Even then, we'll probably keep figuring out things that he was wrong about that we hadn't thought of before.
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stn_sage says:
Listen! So-called 'democracy' under Mubarak was state controlled oppression of the people, NOT democracy at all!! If the new government that is formed listens to, responds to, and respects their public, then IN FACT, they will really HAVE a democracy! THAT, is something to be encouraged, NOT stifled! NOW, we see why so many were against Mr. Bolton's nomination to the United Nations!
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Shibbol says:
So the President doesn't care about foreign policy....as opposed to maybe the passionate interest and sterling record of his predecessor, Mr. Bolton's former employer. Hmmm... How many rocks does CPAC have to turn over to find bugs like this guy?
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