Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin have issued a call on Obama to condemn the attacks in Tahrir Square. (Thx to Paul Mutter) Excerpt:
As we watch the Egyptian police and military viciously attack democracy activists on the streets of Cairo, using U.S. weapons, it is outrageous that the Obama Administration has failed to issue a strong condemnation of this latest attempt to crush a revolution that has inspired people around the world, including millions of Americans…
A principled U.S. position would be to immediately issue a strong condemnation of the violence unleashed by the Egyptian military on its people. The U.S. government should suspend all military aid to the Egyptian government until it stops attacking peaceful protesters, and until it releases the 12,000-plus citizens jailed since Mubarak’s ouster and commits to handing over power to a transitional civilian government as soon as parliamentary elections are completed. President Obama should coordinate with other Western allies and supporters of the Egyptian government to develop a clear and strong policy in support of a rapid transition to democracy and apply the full weight of international diplomatic, economic and legal pressure on the military junta towards that end.
Anything less will be a stain on the United States that will haunt this administration, and the United States more broadly, for years to come.
Join us in signing this letter urging President Obama to condemn the military crackdown and stand with Egypt’s brave citizens struggling for democracy.
One of the newest video. More than 33 people are killed, many more wounded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH1kzXEAQJM&feature=player_embedded
Why condemn now when he can wait to see what happens, issue an apology/ congratulation then and just rewrite history after the fact by saying he is the one that started the uprising.
You know, just like the last time.
Well ,he aint said a word about the crackdown on our occupiers,so don’t expect much from this miseducated puppet.
The military has just transferred power to the constitutional council, whatever that is. Looks like it would do anything but allow the Brotherhood taking control and this is what elections would do.
The US has both the military and the Brothers on its side and we all know that at the end of the day, the Brothers are going to be 100% anti-Israel while the military, contrary to the will of the people, will always be 100% pro-Israel.
The US hasn’t realized it yet that in Libya and Tunisia too, in time the Brothers there will be anti-Israel. Anyone thinking the US will reprimand the miltary in Egypt is into wishful thinking.
Egypt: Tahrir Square protesters bury their dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvxPb7qv8MA