Egypt Is Going To a Democracy
 

:thumbsup Nice! Mubarek is agreeing to free democratic elections for Egypt.

The dominos are falling.

And Syria gave up Saddam's half brother and 29 high level cronies who've been financing the insurgents from just across the Iraqi border.

some cultures are not prepared for democracy. its gonna be interesting seeing how this unfolds

Cool, maybe I will be able to visit Egypt within this lifetime.

It's just a ploy so we loosen up a bit. Neither Syria or Egypt are our friends.

Saddam was "elected" too - don't get too excited about Egypt's "free elections" yet.

At the very least it's a step in the right direction

wow now this is really good news.
Lets hope democracy will not bring fanatics to the government and all will be goody..:)

this means more violence :thumbsup

Even though I hate the Bush diplomacy, it's a fact that pushing over one domino will cause the others to fall. Egypt wasn't a hard core dictatorship so I would think they were a likely candidate for this change.

Now the one we would have to worry about is Saudi Arabia.. lol I'm not so sure we would want them having a democracy, we are probably better off having their royal family control things because at least they like our money.. :1orglaugh

btw..Was good meeting you last night. It's good to finally get out and meet some of the people I see on the boards. Much nicer to put a face to the person's nick.

Hopefully they will not assassinate him as they did Sadat..

I read about this too, and I was struck by two thoughts:

- This may be an election that's about as valid as one held in China. Mubarak talks a good game about 'opening the field', but it comes right on the heels of a political faux pas, that of the arrest of a popular politcal rival and election reformist. Rice was supposed to go to Cairo for a G8 meeting and cancelled, ostensibly, because of this act. This could be little more than short term mollifying words... time will tell.

- Just because there's an election doesn't mean you always get who you want elected. There's a burgeoning hardline islamic element that has been kept surpressed on mubarek's regime...

For now, it's empty words, and a potentially dangerous game to be played in one of the few relatively stable secular states in the north african / near east region.

The Koran is a cookbook for terror... The Old Testiment is the same thing...

You don't need to read about right and wrong in a book... God gave you all the tools you need. Don't listen to another MAN telling you he talked to God... He is crazy and belongs in a looney bin.

Its a long term goal. Like you, I expect some big bumps along the road, but I think is the right road.

the egyptian system was more democratic than others but still not great. I was in their country during an election year a a few years ago. Everywhere you went there were posters and pictures of Mubarek. It was explained to me that the people vote if they want to keep Mubarek or not. If 51% say they want to keep him, there is no election. If less than 51% want to keep him there can be an election. The problem is to run against him you had to have 1/3rd of thier parliment ( or whatever they call thier congress ) to "endorse " you so a total of 3 people could, technically run, Mubarek and two others but getting that endorsement it pretty tricky and in many cases nearly impossible.

hopefully they will have a more free type election, the egyption people, as I experinced them, are good people that like amercians and have a good outlook towards the future.

hahaha , nice one KRL
:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

They have some really messed up ideas there any way. And I think that this is like Castro holding a free election.

very true... :warning

That is an interesting fact.