President Obama and Mohamed ElBaradei, then the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in 2009.“I could not have thought of any other person that is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than ,” , then the director general of the , said in a videotaped statement. He went on to praise Mr. Obama’s commitment “to restore moral decency” to the lives of people around the world.
But this week, Mr. ElBaradei, now a prominent face of the opposition on the streets of Cairo, was sounding a different tune. “The American government cannot ask the Egyptian people to believe that a dictator who has been in power for 30 years will be the one to implement democracy,” Mr. ElBaradei told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” He called the United States’ refusal to openly abandon President of Egypt “a farce.”
Mr. ElBaradei, 68, had a fractious relationship with the Bush administration, one so hostile that Bush officials tried to get him removed from his post at the atomic watchdog agency. But as Egypt’s powerful and the secular opposition on the streets of Cairo have increasingly coalesced around Mr. ElBaradei to negotiate on their behalf, the Obama administration is scrambling to figure out whether he is someone with whom the United States can deal.
Since the protests in Egypt erupted, Obama administration officials have been trying to reach Mr. ElBaradei, but they had not made contact as of Monday afternoon, a White House official said. “I think that outreach is ongoing,” said , the White House press secretary.
CBS and CNN can get to el Baradei, but the White House can't!?!?!? Incompetent idjits.
AND ANOTHER THING: El Baradei's coalition with the MB is not new. The White House is obviously NOT UP TO SPEED, and NOT UP TO THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES!
El Baradei should think carefully: where are those that enabled the Khomeinist regime to get into power in Iran? Many have been interned in Evin prison and tortured, executed, their children murdered and in the case of Mousavi, who was actually part of the regime, having helped set up the Revolutionary Guard, is now subject to harrassment, attacks, house arrest etc.
ReplyDeletePS, re Baradei's slimy comment that Obama, having achieved precisely zero, deserved the Nobel peace prize. This reflects his own totally undeserved "peace" prize and that of Arafat and Carter. Peace in the mozlem world means war and so far, in that sense, Obama's "peace" prize was richly deserved.
ReplyDeleteWhat is slightly concerning is el Baradei's position at the IAEA - surely he would have had access to privileged information about quantity and location of nuclear weapons/facilities all around the ME and possibly elsewhere. Now the mask is off showing the true islamist he is (justifying Bush's attempt at removing him) then who else do you suppose he divulged information too.
ReplyDeleteWhat is slightly concerning is el Baradei's position at the IAEA - surely he would have had access to privileged information about quantity and location of nuclear weapons/facilities all around the ME and possibly elsewhere. Now the mask is off showing the true islamist he is (justifying Bush's attempt at removing him) then who else do you suppose he divulged information too.
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