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Update 6:57 p.m. ET: President Barack Obama said in a brief address this evening that he has told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that an orderly and peaceful transition "must begin now."
The transition must include opposition parties, Obama insisted in remarks that came a few hours after Mubarak said he intended to stay in office through the end of his term in September.
Update 6:48 p.m. ET: The brief address is over. "There will be difficult days ahead," Obama says. "Questions about Egypt's future remain unanswered."
Update 6:45 p.m. ET: Obama confirms he spoke with Mubarak and says Mubarak "recognizes that the status quo" is unsustainable and says he told him an orderly transition "must begin now."
Update 6:45 p.m. ET: Obama praises the Egyptian military for not responding with violence.
Update 6:44 p.m. ET: President Obama is speaking now.
Update 6:19 p.m. ET: The White House pool now says timing on President Obama's speech is slipping. There is no ETA as yet.
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President Barack Obama will make an address on Egypt at 6:20 p.m. ET, the White House says. We'll have live video and running coverage on this post. The address comes after Obama and Mubarak spoke today for about a half-hour, NBC News' Savannah Guthrie reports.
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I think Obama is doing the right thing. It is so clear He need to step down. The people of Egypt will not tolerate his rule any longer. Way to go Obama. Now can you get some of those jobs you have been promising for 3 years now............
I await the propaganda and fearmongering, for the benefit of Israel, to start being propounded through the media that if Mubarak leaves suddenly that the Muslim Brotherhood is going to establish an Afghanistan style state where people will be made to live in mud-brick homes without running water and indoor plumbing; and of course since the propaganda is for the benefit of Israel, I expect there to be constant usage of the word Jihad and the variants of it.
The propaganda is of course false, since the Muslim Brotherhood is adoptive of the views of Syed Qutb who tried to mix modern western technology and science with the morality, spirituality and codes of conduct of Islam.
Yet, Israel must not be neglected. Insofar as Israel is concerned, let them expect that the people of Egypt who have for many years been in solidarity with the people of Palestine, especially Gaza shall push for the blockade on Gaza to be lifted and the people allowed to prosper, instead of having to dig tunnels into Egypt to find sustenance.
The hegemony and subjugation of the Palestinians has been supported and protected through people like Mubarak; and the Egyptian people feel solidarity with them, so it is not a matter of the Muslim Brotherhood taking over when it is the mass of Egyptians who feel the solidarity and sympathy towards the suffering of the Palestinians.
I made a tribute video to show solidarity with the protesters in Egypt: It's called : "Bless The Rains Down In Africa"...take a look and let me know what you think:
Thank God, some sanity. Hopefully a way to continue to protect the fragile emerging democracy can be found.
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Now is the time to watch for Western supported leaders like Muhammad Elbaradei to be brought in to become the faces of the opposition protesters.
The Tea Party was co-opted by the Republicans when they saw that it was gaining popularity, so Sarah Palin became the public face.
The same situation is occurring in Egypt. Rather there is multi-front assault being launched at the protesters.
Front 1: They are being bribed and given token gestures by the Mubarak regime, a few people moved around from post to post, to see if that is enough to shut the protesters up.
Front 2: Western supported opposition leaders like Muhammad Elbaradei are being brought in to try and co-opt/hijack the protest movements, so that the West and Western policies remain in place, just with a face that the public accepts.
Front 3: Time. The attempt on the part of the regime must be to stall for time, to wait and tire out the protesters, especially since there must be logistical problems with regard to providing food to maintain the energy of the protesters; stall for time and tire out the protesters until they get fed up and head for home having gotten only token gestures and Western supported agents co-opting the efforts they have exerted.
As regards the policies of the West, they are asking for things like transitional governments, and transitional governments mean that the West have an opportunity to buy off candidates, influence the wording of the re-write to the constitution and pay for the campaigns of the future candidates, so that there is still a Western agent ruling over Egypt and the people are none the wiser to the truth.
"Obama tells Mubarak he must go"
(and then, out of the other side of his mouth... Obama says...)
"But I'm NOT taking sides or trying to influence the Egyptian government being overthrown...."
(Obama: "After all, I've used this same deceitful logic and double-talk to trick the American people these past two years !!!.... Why wouldn't it work on the Egyptians ???")
I always knew Obama was a puffed up egotistical socialist who thinks he is not only the savior of the US but of the world. Now he is proving it. Where does he get off ordering other leaders around like some kind of potentate? O yeah, he thinks he's the messiah. He should leave the white house and go work at the UN. He would fit in well with all the other two bit thugs there.
Well he is in for a big surprise if and when radical Islam uses these tragic events in Egypt to grasp power there and in Jordan and who knows where else. If they do, they will tell Obama to shut up and bow down to them. At least he has practiced that already. He is a fool.
Please read Matthew chapter 24 and DANIEL 2:19-24 & DANIEL 12, HOSEA1-5
Jesus said in verse 4...Take heed that no man deceive you. Pray for the peace in all the nations. Pray for the peace of Isreal... God's land and God's chosen people. That is all those who believe that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. Pray for all those who do not know him yet that their eye may be open to the true Living Messiah. For we know not the hour when the we shall be cought up in the air to meet our maker. Are we ready. May God have mercy on us all and meet the needs of each and every person that reads this. Jesus loves you. None of us are perfect nor do we fully understand everything that goes on but one thing is true...one day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.