Hillary Clinton condemns "shocking" bloody clashes rocking Cairo in call to VP Omar Suleiman

[seafan]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - America's top diplomat Hillary Clinton condemned "shocking" bloody clashes that rocked the Cairo stronghold of anti-government protesters Wednesday, in a call to Vice President Omar Suleiman.



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[kenny blankenship]

1. She's shocked. SHOCKED!

That's there's bloody despotism going on in our good friend and ally Egypt.

Yep. Who could have known something like this would be perpetrated by a nice guy like Hosni Mubarak? Who could have known? We REALLY THOUGHT he could be worked with you know? We really thought if we were measured and nice with him, then he'd be measured and nice with his people. Yep, we really thought that.

[hugo_from_TN]

2. Obama and Hillary are the ones propping them up.

:cry:

[PoliticAverse]

5. "I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family." - Hillary Clinton

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/01/secretary-clinton-in-2009-i-really-consider-president-and-mrs-mubarak-to-be-friends-of-my-family.html

[joshcryer]

12. "How do you view the presidency in Egypt, the future of the presidency in Egypt?"

"SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s for the people of Egypt to decide. That is a very important issue that really is up to Egyptians."

Nice interview.

[bluestateguy]

3. Hillary bashers are already arriving

But seriously, she's really getting that 3AM phone call now.

[Luminous Animal]

4. She deserves it. And what did she expect from one of her torturing dicator friends?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/09/AR2009030902478.html

"I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States."
From March 2009

[asjr]

6. Hillary bashers never really left. Mubarak

has been there for 30 years, but some people here are blaming Hillary and Obama for this mess. I am an avid Republican basher and I do not apologize for that, but when smart ass remarks about Clinton and Obama are made concerning this earth-shaking event it seems patriotism flies out the window.

[elleng]

7. Patriotism and reason fly out the window.

With you.


:thumbsup:

[asjr]

8. I've been a patriot when there were

patriots-- when I was a child during WW2. That is when I learned what patriotism really is. I rode on trains that were taking our military boys to the next camp or to the ship that was going to take them to the North Atlantic or the South Pacific to see action. The trains were so crowded some of them had to stand. I remember my mother giving a sailor her seat on the train. So do not tell me that my patriotism and reason flew out the window.

[elleng]

9. Seem to have been a misunderstanding;

I was agreeing w you that 'when smart ass remarks about Clinton and Obama are made concerning this earth-shaking event it seems patriotism flies out the window.'

[asjr]

10. You are correct. I took it the wrong way. I am

very sorry. I am in reality a mild mannered old woman and I was upset with some of the replies in the thread. Usually I count to 50 before opening my mouth. It usually helps.

[truth2power]

11. Smart ass remarks? So, are Hillary and Obama NOT still

propping up Mubarak? And from what I understand, Suleiman is another torturer, just like Mubarak. So, how are things going to change for the Egyptian people?

[juajen]

14. So, let me see. The first thing Obama and Clinton should have done when he took the White House

was to advocate the removal of the thirty-year-President of Egypt, doing this while removing troops from Iraq, pumping up Afghanistan and watching Iran very carefully; for, we all know, the republicans would have been so in favor of this. Opposition? What opposition?

[sabrina 1]

17. Didn't the promise 'chance'? We knew we were supporting

dictators, we expected change as promised. This was meant to be the 'future' not adherence to the past. And how could any decent person call a man like Mubarak a 'friend of the family' knowing what was going on in that country? Last June, a young, Egyptian man was beaten to death by Mubarak's thugs simply for taking a photo of his thugs.

That was the event that was the LAST straw for many Egyptians. Apparently these acts of violence and torture and brutality against his own people were not known to Hillary Clinton, or to Obama??

I mean I someone like me knew about them, an ordinary person with no special inside information, is it possible that the SOS did not know? Because that is the only excuse she would have for calling him and his disgusting, greedy wife 'friends of the family'.

[Skip Intro]

13. It's Pavlovian. nt

[wisteria]

15. I am sure she is shocked and I am pleased to know she has let the VP know about it.

May cooler,wiser and more mature adults prevail when dealing with this sad event.

[bread_and_roses]

18. If she's 'shocked" she's an idiot

And whatever else she is, I doubt she's an idiot. Nothing that's come out of the mouth of our Dear Leaders has been anything but theatre. What did she expect from her "good friend" Mubarik? And just who are these "adults" who should "prevail?" Sure, we're the "good friends" of the Egyptian people - that's why we've supported a brutal, repressive, torturing Dictator for all these years.

[grahamhgreen]

16. If she really condems it, then she would ask that he step down.

[comsymp]

19. She could, if instructed by Obama to do so

Cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the President, and are responsible for carrying out his policy - it isn't as if they're free agents pushing their own agendas (certain former BA officials excluded). Of course, she could resign and then say whatever she wants, I suppose....