Wow, that went quicker than I expected.
Hosni Mubarak has stepped down.
While we'll have to see what happens next, and how the military leadership actually rules, mass bloodshed has been avoided for now. Mubarak finally read the writing on the wall:
Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman has just read a statement saying President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down as president, ending his 30-year rule. Suleiman said that the higher council of the armed forces will lead the nation.Mubarak's move came on the 18th day of the protests that gripped his country, and after he had stopped short of stepping down on several previous occasions.
The New York Times reports:
The Egyptian military issued a communiqué pledging to carry out a variety of constitutional reforms in a statement notable for its commanding tone. The military's statement alluded to the delegation of power to Mr. Suleiman and it suggested that the military would supervise implementation of the reforms.
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/mubarak-steps-down-in-egypt.php?ref=fpblg
I'm very pleased to see a non-violent revolution succeed. A brutal dictator has been removed without a single American bomb being dropped.
I couldn't resist the picture above, which proves the American influence on the Egyptian protests. Witness that great icon of American freedom: Cartman!
2 comments:
Gee, the Big M resigned right about the time we said he would.
Can we get top-sekrit, high-paying, heavy travel jobs with the State department? I'd like to put some more visa stamps in my passport :-)
And I said it before at the start of these uprisings, the House of Saud better be well prepared to spend some money keeping commodity prices down and finding things for their populace to do, because the people of Egypt just handed them a blueprint for how to accomplish the same for Saudi Arabia...
The guy way in the back...is that D.B. Cooper?
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