Re: By Shingo, June 27 at 7:51 am #

Shingo,

In my humble opinion, you got this one wrong.! Mubarak has passed the retirement age, and the Egyptian people is tired of him.
The US would prefer a new face take over, aka, a new maestro with the same music.
El Baradei would not have dared to challenge Mubarak unless he knew he has powerful backing!!!
Would that “regime change” be good for Egypt and its stability?, I am not so sure, and I am afraid what happened in Pakistan after Musharaf stepped down, will repeat itself in Egypt with the same dire unfolding events, chaos and violence. Time will tell and of course I could be wrong.

El Baradei’s election would be a second blow to the US and Israel after losing Erdogan.

Given that Mubarak has groomed his son to replace him, it’s safe to say the election will be rigged and the US will applaud this example of democracy in action.

Mubaraks time has come and gone and he is due for retirement.

I hope an Egyptian government more critical of Israels current policies comes into power and uses its influence to change the status quo.

And I hope he campaigns in the equivalent of an Army tank to keep him safe.
What a nice change for Egypt if he became president!

Where are all the neocons who claim to love the Iran’s
Green Party because of their devotion to democracy?

Why aren’t they all clamoring in support of Egypt’s
secular, reasonable, Baradei?

Answer: because the cynical tyrant Mubarak accepts US bribes
to keep him cooperating with Israel’s strangulation of Gaza and
other crimes. Baradei, who as head of the IAEA was defiantly
skeptical of neocon/Israeli nuclear alarmism about Iraq and Iran,
would probably not be so “good for Israel” as Mubarak. As leader
of Egypt he might even try to adopt a foreign policy more
independent of Israel, and of the American government that
belligerently serves Israel.

The neocon/Israeli champions of “democracy” can’t wait to bomb
Iran to smithereens and kill lots of people, including lots of those
dear little Green Party dissidents they claim to love—but whom
they plainly despise, as much as they despise Egyptians, Americans,
and in fact everyone and everything but their own royally Chosen
arses.

I feel huge admiration for El Baradei for all his stringent U.N. inspection work.  I hope he fully and deeply understands the possibilities, the philosophy and practice of nonviolent action.