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cut the com daveO.

Little bit like Iran then with the majority population in rural areas "out of touch" with the "modern" world and thoroughly repressed.

Tony
humanity and the value of money are incompatible domains.
If peoples of egypt should indeed gain power then necessarily a muslim party will have majority, because the majority of Egypt's population is rural and are Muslims.
Most possibly not fundamental Islamist, however, any peace treaty with Israel will either be re-negotiated or get frozen status or be cancelled.
Now think sharply... could it be it is just that what the FED wants to achieve?

DaveO, yes I think as far as Egypt is concerned we do definitely need transparent elections. The problem is that the US & Britain have an interest to keep the status quo. They talk about democracy but want a tyrannical ruler to be elected to cater for their "interests" in the region. Their whole agenda smacks of hypocracy and ineptitude. Just look at Obama's speech today. The guy is a total jerk and has been sitting on the fence all this time until the climax of peoples' jubilations today. The biggest prize for revolutionaries is the corrupt Saudi regime where income disparities are enormous. The Saudis were a tribe of marauding butchers who were put in power post WW1 by the British and have never received any reprisals from the West for their decadent regime and brutality to women and the underclass. Once people in Saudi Arabia start to rise up you will all see the true horror of this regime which will make Mobarak look like a saint.

In conclusion the West should not preach to the Middle East their self-interests have always been to support corrupt poppet regimes and subjugate local populations for economic self-interests. The West is full of double standards and false promises and should not be trusted.

My interests are in humanity in general. Where a person comes from and from what background is irrelevant. As the American empire rules the world through the FED, they're under the spot light.