An Open Letter to President Barack Obama about Egypt & Mubarak

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Dear President Obama:
As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping over Egypt. As citizens, we expect our president to uphold those values.
For thirty years, our government has spent billions of dollars to help build and sustain the system the Egyptian people are now trying to dismantle. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Egypt and around the world have spoken. We believe their message is bold and clear: Mubarak should resign from office and allow Egyptians to establish a new government free of his and his family's influence. It is also clear to us that if you seek, as you said Friday "political, social, and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people," your administration should publicly acknowledge those reforms will not be advanced by Mubarak or any of his adjutants.
There is another lesson from this crisis, a lesson not for the Egyptian government but for our own. In order for the United States to stand with the Egyptian people it must approach Egypt through a framework of shared values and hopes, not the prism of geostrategy. On Friday you rightly said that "suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away." For that reason we urge your administration to seize this chance, turn away from the policies that brought us here, and embark on a new course toward peace, democracy and prosperity for the people of the Middle East. And we call on you to undertake a comprehensive review of US foreign policy on the major grievances voiced by the democratic opposition in Egypt and all other societies of the region.
http://www.accuracy.org/an-open-letter-to-president-barack-obama/
Recommended reading: "The Delicate Tightrope of Supporting a Dictator, U.S. media gloss over Washington's role in Egyptian repression" http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4245

President Mubarak must stay for now, U.S. envoy says
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/02/egypt-president-mubarak...

Glenn Kessler points out that "the public message sent by the Obama administration over the past two years was that democracy and human rights in Egypt was not a top priority. When given the opportunity to use the biggest megaphone in the world--the voice of the president of the United States--the words were whispered, if said at all."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2011/01/obama_and_mubarak_and_d...

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[Dboy61073]

@hamada008

a7ebbak ya 7amada wenta mtar2a3lohom.

a5ook el masry

[AQMilitant]

Fact is, Zionists dominate USA & they nuked Japan, did 9/11 & 7/7.

Many leaders are Zionist crypto-Jews & some are the prostitutes(puppets) of evil666 Israel.

Rogue state Israel is the base of all evil. Israel & her Zionist devils are the creators of terrorists, dictators, false flag ops, wars & conflicts.

Zionists are the children of Satan Baphomet & Israel must be crushed like a bug.

Evil Israel is the global pest & Al-Qaeda is the pest control.

STAND UP AGAINST ZIONISM NOW! DOWN WITH IL

[pulman7]

@hamada008 you dont need to say that to this pigs Jews Aipac !

Egypt is Muslim Country

and we will do whatever we want !

and this pigs AIPAC support pigs Jews Country Day and night !

why we cant make Islamic country then ?!

this pigs will be wiped soon by Islamic Egyptian Isa !

[mrtundra45]

Obama you LIAR!!!!!!

[epacsmai]

I hope the USA does not meddle with these elections. The people won't have another pro -israeli egyptian government.

[feloniousbutterfly]

@xtul1 Wow, you're really uneducated. You think he's a muslim? Why would he be supporting the slaughter of millions of muslims if he was a muslim himself? (I.E. AFGHANISTAN WAR)

[lexlundin]

What are you talking about ? There is no President. You're flapping your gums for nothing. He's just a front man who gives speaches for the Zionist Jews who actually run the country .. That's it, Get It ?!? You stupid people have no idea what's going on ! This guy is going to make Bush look like a 5 year old playing G.I. Joe. He's a trator and a war profiteer who just be hung for selling out Americans and treason in it's highest form ! He's the biggest embarrassment to the U.S. to date.

[JokerMouce]

What do people expect? Obama has 0, zero, zilch, none, nada, foreign policy experience. It's like putting a 2nd grade math student in charge or a trig class.

I tried to tell people this before the election but most were hell bent on putting him in office.

I hope they (you) are happy now!

[amrjosef]

The american bitches give full support to the iranian protests while they didnt even oppen their mouth against the dictator Mubarak, whaaat kind of fuckers are the US??.

Iong live the Secular Arab Revolution and down with the american dictators.