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riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 07:59 PM Jan 2012

Obama reads Tantawi the Riot Act

http://thedailynewsegypt.com/columnists/obama-reads-tantawi-the-riot-act.html

Obama reads Tantawi the Riot Act
By Philip Whitfield January 29, 2012


CAIRO: Help me out here. Let’s read some news items together to prove I’m not completely mad. First a newsflash: Three PR gurus paid $4.3 million (plus expenses) to flack for SCAF in Washington DC dumped them after lawmakers harrumphed: Is there no shame in this town?

Update: Cairo says it did the dumping. Who’s pot calling who’s kettle black?

SCAF’s devil-may-care disregard for human rights is their undoing. No amount of pleading by a bevy of top brass hastily dispatched to the State Department and the Pentagon this week can save their skins. Or military aid.

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