Mubarak Gone! Tahrir Square In Delirium!
8 am PST in California 6 PM in Egypt the VP, Omar Suleiman, read a statement was read on state TV that
“I President Hosni Mubarak have decided to step down as President of Egypt and have assigned the higher council of the armed forces to run the affairs of the country….”
He is reportedly already in his mansion in Sharm el Sheik
Chanting Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! and Egypt is Free! Egypt is Free!
Families joining the masses… Presidential Palace is surrounded… Street party all night….
Nicholas Kristof on Avoiding a New Pharaoh
It’s also striking that Egyptians triumphed over their police state without Western help or even moral support. During rigged parliamentary elections, the West barely raised an eyebrow. And when the protests began at Tahrir Square, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the Mubarak government was “stable” and “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people.” Oops. So much for our $80 billion intelligence agency
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