Thursday, February 03, 2011

Jamal Mubarak is not running for president

So the head of Mubarak's secret police, whose torture services were rendered for the US and for other countries and who got praise for the torture techniques that he had introduced--Hillary calls that reform--today announced that Jamal Mubarak won't run for president.  And that is made to sound like a concession or as--you guessed it--reform that the US is seeking.  The man can't stop foot in Egypt, and you tell me he won't run for president?  This is like saying that as a gesture to the Iranian people, the son of the dead Shah in Washington, DC, announced that he won't run for election in Iran anymore.  When you are finished, you don't run for anything.  Jamal Mubarak won't be running for the Egyptian cultural club in London.