>>>>>>Mubarak has quit - Egypt celebrates. Army in charge.
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>>>>>It's not easy like you think. We're a republic from 80 years but we just see real democracy yet. Our republic was under army's control. Army is a big power yet but loosing it's influence...
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>>>>I agree. Seems like the press has tried to run Mubarak out and they have succeeded.
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>>>>They have succeeded in putting the country under control of a military dictatorship.
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>>>The press? It was the press that caused millions of people to take to the streets over a lack of jobs and the general state of the country?
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>>>The military's intentions remain unclear. Maybe it will turn out to be a dictatorship. It's hard to imagine it being much worse than what they already had. You know what they said about Mussolini -- the trains ran on time. No, I am not advocating military dictatorship as a preferred form of government, but you have to compare it to the alternative. Egypt, one of the founding fathers of civilization, has been very bad off for a long time now.
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>>>If Cleopatra were alive you can bet there would be hell to pay ;-)
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>>Of course, she was Greek <g>
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>>I have discovered one of Farouk's spawn may be available! ( King Farouk had real style ! ( and actually made the Saudi royal family look good ))
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuad_II_of_Egypt>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali,_Prince_of_the_Sa%27id>>
>>The man could rock a fez
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http://www.coinlink.com/News/images/king_farouk_2.jpg>>
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/1509600816_ce25497b65.jpg>>
>>to get the full effect you have to imagine him in his red Rolls Royce
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/askamel/463787461/>
>Cleopatra was born in Greece but wouldn't you agree she is best remembered as the queen of Egypt?
I remember her best for leaving Eddie Fisher for Richard Burton.
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