U S alleged clandestine activity to overthow Mubarek
Hey Pie ...
I enjoy discussing this issue very much with you and all others NOT here in the USA (I am in the USA, so other perspectives are most informative).
I was not aware of any United States alleged clandestine activity now or in the past to overthrow Egyptian President Hasni Mubarek.
The best news sources here report to us what has happened in Egypt this very day is a "popular people's revolution" which the USA had no involvement -- wanting rather the Egyptian people to shape their own destiny.
Vice-President Joe Biden earlier today stated that the American Government and People are proud of this "people's revolution" -- that it is largely the result of such social medial networks as Facebook, Twitter and the Internet.
Our Vice-President also shortly stated ago that high technology now used by young people everywhere will change the world for the "great cause of human justice and freedeom."
Pie .. whereas our diplomatic community may have had some input into this Egyptian revolution and certainly both Bush and now Obama were not pleased with Mubarek, I do believe this is still mostly an Egyptian revolution created by Egyptians for Egyptians and the advancement of dignity, freedom and human rights. Not about the USA, about Egypt !
AND yes, the United States as I stated in my post above is extremely concerned right now about what is NOW to be in Egypt, as this state is KEY to the entire future of peace, commerce and stability throught the entire Middle East. Again, the United States and Free World cannot afford in any way to have Egypt turn into a radical Islamic Theocracy .. and the people there do not want this, either.
President Obama has now just completed speaking live from The White House on all of this, and all the news media covered his speech live, on television, the radio and on-line.
President Obama and his allies in the United States Congress and Democratic Party here are well aware that powerful, big monied interests are viciously opposed to him and his agenda to make the USA better work for "all the people, for 'We, the People.'" Our President here is "fighting the good fight" for the just cause of greater freedom and liberty for ALL people here in the USA and the world wide.
The President and the Democratic Party cannot be expected to "bring the change" instantly -- rather, such a turn of events FOR THE PEOPLE does take time. YET already
The President has, to name just a few of his major accomplishments (including historic legislation to PROTECT gay men and women in the U S military, FIRST-TIME ever in American military history):
#1 Health Care Reform. Although controversial in nature, President Obama’s historic signing of the health care reform bill (i.e., The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) will result in health care coverage for over 30 million additional Americans, as well as lowered costs for most Americans. Additionally, the health care reform bill will preclude insurance companies from placing lifetime limits on benefits and from denying coverage to individuals and family members with pre-existing health conditions.
#2 Wall Street Reform. President Obama signed the historic Wall Street Reform Bill, which was established to put an end to taxpayer-funded bailouts, create a new watchdog agency within the Federal Reserve to protect consumers in financial transactions, give the government more power to break up failing companies and create greater congressional oversight over the central bank.
#3 HIRE Act. President Obama signed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which included $17.5 billion in tax cuts, business credits and subsidies for state and local construction bonds, and moved $20 billion into the highway trust fund for spending on highway and transit programs. The bill also exempts businesses that hire unemployed workers from paying the payroll security tax through December of 2010.
#4 Iraq. One of the primary messages of his presidential campaign was the withdrawal of combat troops out of Iraq. President Obama and his National Defense personnel were able to implement this promise, as more than 90,000 combat troops were withdrawn out of Iraq by August 31, 2010.
#5 New START. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) that is purposed to reduce the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers by half and to establish a new inspection and verification regime. The treaty was recently ratified by Congress after being signed earlier this year by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
#6 DADT Appeal. President Obama recently signed the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ (DADT) Repeal Bill into law, which will allow gays to serve openly in America’s military. For the first time in history, gays no longer have to hide their sexual orientation or face dismissal. According to objective statistics, more than 13,000 military personnel were released under the DADT since 1993.
#7 Tax Cuts. President Obama recently signed an enormous tax cut bill that will extend the Bush era tax cuts for families at all income levels through 2012. The bill also consisted of a new payroll tax cut for wage earners, numerous tax breaks for businesses and extended jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed.
#8 Fair Sentencing Act. Earlier this year, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to reduce racial inequity that has historically existed relative to the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine versus powder cocaine. To be charged with a felony, crack users needed to possess only 5 grams of the drug to be sentenced with the same charge that powder cocaine users needed to be caught with (500 grams). Now, to be charged, crack users need to possess 28 grams of crack cocaine to 500 grams of powder cocaine.
#9 Appointment of Justice Elena Kagen. In addition to appointing Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court in 2009, President Obama similarly appointed former Solicitor General Elena Kagen in 2010.
#10 Childhood Obesity Act. President Obama recently signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was primarily spearheaded by First Lady Michelle Obama. This bill is purposed to subsidize free meals in low-income areas, to ensure that children receive well-balanced and nutritious school meals, to provide free or reduced-price meals to nearly 31 million low-income children and to ultimately reduce childhood obesity.
#11 Improper Payments. President Obama signed the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act, which is purposed to prevent such payments sent by the government to the wrong person or for the wrong reasons or in the wrong amounts. President Obama also established a goal for his administration to reduce improper payments by $50 billion by 2012.
#12 Approving Stem Cell Research again. President Obama signed an executive order ending Bush-era restrictions on using federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research, which long-term will save tens of thousands of lives through the advancement
of medicine breakthroughs.
NONE of the ABOVE would have been accomplished by George W. Bush -- no way and no how. The health of ALL America, the wealth of ALL America and the well-being of ALL America and our ENTIRE WORLD has been greatly advanced by President Obama and the Democratic Party here in these United States of America.
This great cause is not over -- rather, the work continues as it now will for freedom-loving people here in the United States, now in Egypt and throughout the world.
The United States does NOT dictate to others what they must do ... rather, with our great and good American President, the finest since President John F. Kennedy and before him President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (during WW2) .. we are ALL together about building better world for peace, prosperity and the advancement of the human spirit EVERYWHERE.
