Don’t vote for ‘dictator’, Muslim Brotherhood tell Egyptians

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/August/middleeast_August610.xml§ion=middleeast

CAIRO - Egypt’s main opposition movement, the banned but tolerated Muslim Brotherhood, urged on Sunday their large following to take part in the September 7 presidential poll but not to elect “a dictator”.

“All Brothers have to realise that we cannot support an oppressor or cooperate with a corrupt person or a dictator,” said a much-anticipated official statement stating the powerful movement’s voting advice.

President Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for 24 years, is seeking a fifth term in office but has for the first time allowed others to challenge him for the job. snip

“The fact that he has ruled over Egypt for 24 years and has not introduced a single political reform over that period is enough justification,” he added.

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1. I am afraid

all this democracy spreadin' rhetoric has opened quite the can of worms for the Bushies. What will they do without their trusted Middle Eastern dictators? Serves them right.