I ask myself why.
Why would authorities in a European county like Switzerland entertain
the idea of trying George W. Bush for torture if he came to give a
talk in that country;
But, European
countries are supporting Omar
Suleiman for interim president of Egypt, even though he was the one
who undertook the torture for Bush? Suleiman tossed some 30,000
suspected Muslim fundamentalists in prison, and accepted from the US
CIA kidnapped suspected militants, whom he had tortured. Some were
innocent. One, Sheikh Libi, was tortured into falsely confessing that
Saddam Hussein was training al-Qaeda operatives, an allegation that
straight into Colin Powell’s speech to the UN justifying the Iraq War.
I ask myself why.
If Frank Wisner, President Obama’s informal envoy to Egypt, is
a paid lobbyist for Egypt and says things like that Mubarak
must stay, which Obama then has to deny …
Why didn’t Obama send an envoy from Human Rights Watch instead?
I ask myself why
If Bush and the Neocons installed a pathbreaking democracy in
iraq . . .
– Why does its prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, have
to pledge not to run for office again (taking a leaf from the books
of the rulers of Yemen and Egypt? Why does al-Maliki have
secret prisons where people appear to have been tortured? Why is he taking
over independent commissions such as the electoral commission?
I ask myself why.
If President Hosni Mubarak, his generals, and the ruling
National Democratic Party have
engaged in voter fraud and corruption during each of the elections
for the past few decades;
… Would would make them honest brokers in moving the county to
presidential elections in September?
I ask myself why.
If the Mubarak regime has had a change of heart and will now
move toward democracy;
why
is its secret police snooping through Facebook accounts with an eye
to making arrests? And, where is Wael
Ghonim?, the Google exec who began the Facebook page for the Jan.
25 demonstrations?
I ask myself why.
If the resignations
of high Egyptian officials, and reputedly even Mubarak himself,
from the National Democratic Party are sincere;
Then why not just resign from the presidency, since the point
of being in the ruling party was to attempt to use it to come to power?
I ask myself why.
If the Muslim Brotherhood is supposed to be such a radical
party
Then why is it a) the first major
opposition party to begin negotiations with the government; and b)
why is the MB rebuking
Iran’s ruling ayatollah Ali Khamenei for saying the street
revolution is Islamic, insisting instead that it is national?
