More than just "Obama's Fault"... he helped plan it
Many have doubted that Barack Obama was on top of the situation in Egypt as he asserts... myself included. And I was wrong, he was RIGHT on top of it- alas, on the side of the revolutionaries! Fact is, he's been playing his typical double-game, hedging his bets like the duplicitous scoundrel that he is-
Wikileaks cables regarding Obama Administration policy in Egypt betray the fact that they've been plotting with opposition leaders to overthrow Hosni Mubarak for years... this despite the fact that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood dominates the opposition movement in Egypt, and is likely to now come to power...
The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.
On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.
He has already been arrested by Egyptian security in connection with the demonstrations...
[WikiLeaks document/more at The Telegraph]
The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.
In a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year.
The memo, which Ambassador Scobey sent to the US Secretary of State in Washington DC, was marked “confidential” and headed: “April 6 activist on his US visit and regime change in Egypt.”
It said the activist claimed “several opposition forces” had “agreed to support an unwritten plan for a transition to a parliamentary democracy, involving a weakened presidency and an empowered prime minister and parliament, before the scheduled 2011 presidential elections”. The embassy’s source said the plan was “so sensitive it cannot be written down”.
This is no Polish Solidarity movement, people... and recent developments in Cairo are an unmitigated disaster for the United States of America- mark my words. Monday, expect oil prices to soar and the Dow will be in the toilet... and just the simple fact that the Obama Administration is behind it is reason enough to question the wisdom employed here.
Today I see many rooting for the wrong side… so do be sure to come by my blog and admit it when the Islamists take over.
Looks like the many were right to blame Obama for this, as for some reason Americans seem hesitant to. Now that we know he planned and supported it, they ought to take a serious look at why they're making excuses for this clueless strategist and diplomatic klutz Obama- because they were oh-so-very wrong.
Live streaming coverage of the events in Egypt -here-
WikiLeaks Baltimore Sun The Telegraph h/t Drudge Daily Kos