What? A government ruling that doesn't speak for it's masses? Sounds to familure.

Do any of you even know about the court case last month that found Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and a host of legal advisors, guilty of international war crimes? Their findings are being fowarded to the ICC.

You flag wavers have been waving it in support of unjust, illegal, and immoral wars, for a government that is ruled by corporate greed and the military industrial complex.

Mubarak was a longtime ally of our warmongering government. Just wait until you see what they have in store for our own citizens, when they finally wake up from the coma they've been in, and realize that their misdirection of aggression was manipulated and turned towards the middle east to hide the fact that the terrorists that they fear are only responding our governments closed door criminal activities in their lands for corporate greed and personal profit.

It was never about liberating anyone, never about protecting anyones freedom. It was about corporate greed and warmongering. When you have an industrial military complex as powerful as ours, you certainly cannot afford to pay for it's existance without creating wars! And boy do they ever profit during wars! Profiting off innocent blood in your names with your childrens blood, while you sit watching fox news and wave your flag high. NOBODY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PROFIT FROM WAR, It only creates more.

When they turn their aggression towards us citizens, then you will understand, how they have pit our own citizens against each other and created endless wars in our country too, in order to distract us from their real agenda.

A real Patriot stands in favor of their countries people, and speaks out against, not in defense, of a corrupt government.

Rant now, call me names if you like, you may change your tune and see clearly very soon.

I forgive you. You have been decieved.

Look at these animals no other word to describe them except savages, Those who support these idiots in America are anti government. IF husnu mubarak killed these 900 protesters from the start, it is because he new his ppl from the very start. He new the severe consequences that can come if it get out of hand and he new that no matter who is in power that his ppl would still carry on like savages as we see going on now.......This is getting Tiring....They are tired. Leadership is the image of its ppl that is ruled so deal with it ......this is what democracy produces, SAVAGES

Gee, does this mean they are not going to build a Pyramid for Mubarak?

They hunger for more blood.

It is not the veridct that has them angry. It is the fact that their personal circumstances have not changed one bit since their revolution.

They expected to wake up the next day after his removal and find themselves suddenly with jobs and prosperity. It is the fallacy that causes all these type countries to want democracy, the lie beneath the dream that is peddled by our ambassadors and military people.

They forget to say, "Oh, by the way, we've been at this since 1775 and millions of people have died to bring our own democracy about, and we're still fighting each other over how to handle it, and even in the United States of America, there are so very many people who are sick and hungry and miserable and we can't take care of them all. All we can give you is a chance to fix your own lives and it will take many decades and hard work and even then many of you won't live to see it."

They want it all NOW, and they didn't get it and they don't even know why they are rioting so they use this as the excuse. And now every time they are disappointed, they will riot until another Mubarak takes power.

The citizens of Egypt do seem to realize that rotting away in prison is way worse than execution. It is the radicals whom are inciting the masses, they are counting on more rebellious crowds taking down any opposition to them. Soon there will be no way for the country to stand on it's own legs and extremists will come into power, by then it will be too late.

If the new leaders try to close the canal, invasion will occur

good!!

Ahhhhh democracy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they will riot when they lose the elections.

Ahhhhhh impartial courts,,,,,,,,,,,,they riot when they deliver verdicts.

I'm sure these people have no idea what democracy means,,,none whatsoever.

Sort of like,,,,,,,trying to explain to a democrat why it is bad to spend 150% of the governments income on entitlement programs for losers and "Free" healthcare instead of balancing a budget and defending a nation.

Hosni Mubarak was exactly what the US-- and, it can be argued, Egypt-- needed in the wake of the assassination of Anwar Sadat:

A. Someone whose authority would be unquestioned, even if the evidence is scarce that he was aiming at a dictatorship prior to the assassination;

and B. A person who would see the results of the prior wars and therefore maintain the treaty Sadat had obtained at Camp David with the Israelis.

And C. someone who would reliably be on the "secular, Western-engaged Arab nationalist moderate" side, as opposed to the "Islamic pan-Arabic-engaged monarchist-conservative or leftist Islamic jihadist" side. If being sturdily secular, regardless of the Islamic nature of the country, is good for Turkey-- and I will argue it is-- it is good for Egypt.

Had Mubarak ceded power to secular moderates in 2000, he would be seen-- and rightfully so-- as one of the statesmen who got a threatened world into the current millennium.

Did he enrich himself, and were lives lost, in that enrichment, in the classic style of dictators, especially those who outlive their time and struggle at the end? Absolutely. Was Anwar Sadat a statesman who helped keep the cover on the earth anytime between 1980 and 2010? Yes, he absolutely was.

It's a helluva paradox, si o no?

William P. Homans

Clarksdale, Mississippi