BREAKING NEWS: Egyptian President Mubarak to Step Down This Evening

[LongTomH]

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We're still in unknown territory here! Will the military support free elections and the beginnings of a democracy or will we have another authoritarian state?

[no limit]

1. Finally!

[Baltimore]

8. Premature rumors

Mubarak said he wasn't going anywhere, he would hand over power to Omar Suleiman in some unspecified near future, and he would not bow to outside pressures. The crowd roared with anger (sounded like movies I've seen of the French revolutionaries at the the gates of Versailles) and started waving shoes. These stories swirling around about Mubarak going to resign, army takes over, have as of now been shown to be BS. He talked to the crowd in a patronizing tone, saying he was speaking as a father to his children.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Keep this in mind the next time the PNAC gets a dictator in the...

White House.

[Citizen Worker]

6. Why wait? How much worse do things have to get before we act?

[boycottfaux]

3. GOOD!!!

Guess Mubarak got the hint:  people despise him!!  Jeez, how
long was this guy gonna hang on?  Now he can start spending
his billions or decide to live in one of his ritzy Beverly
Hills properties he owns . .

[forty6]

4. He owns property in Beverly Hills? I really haven't learned enough

about him to know if that is true.

At least he will be spending his $ in the USA, then.

But actually, I wonder if that's going to look good in the eyes of the world. The USA harboring this tyrant? Well, we harbor George W Bush, so I guess it won't matter.

[jwirr]

5. We should not forget that it was a big mistake to take the Shah of Iran

in. He has house elsewhere he can live in.

[Shining Jack]

12. It was an even bigger mistake to

take out Mossadegh, who was democratically elected and put the Shah in power IMHO.

[Tx4obama]

10. I read he also owns properties in NY and Las Vegas. n/t

[NorthCarolina]

7. Guess Not. nt

[Charleston Chew]

9. BREAKING NEWS: not so much

[swilton]

11. He's as good as still there until Suleman

steps down. That would be Breaking News!