Mubarak has resigned!!!!!!!

[Thunder]

Just announced on CBS news. No articles to source yet.

Council of Armed Forces ordered to run the country.

 

[Ysidro]

When I heard the latest news I thought "yeah right" but...my IPU, it seems to be true!

 

[Cleon]

The cheering in tahrir square is deafening. Wow.

 

[Thunder]

I'm very happy for the Egyptian people.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egypt

looks like the military gave him a safe way out.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

I heard this on the radio as well.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

Obligatory cynicism rather than celebration of people power and the end of a cruel autocrat etc etc.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

The cheering in tahrir square is deafening. Wow.

It seems rather rude to cheer when someone loses their job.

 

[Childlike Empress]

Finally!

 

[Doubt]

Now comes the hard part of changing a country.

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[Thunder]

This is a great victory for freedom and civil rights, and a great defeat for the forces of brutality and dictatorship.

 

[FireGarden]

Now there can be a party at Ron's house:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=191301

The cheering in tahrir square is deafening. Wow.

Not just Tahrir.
How many people were out today? The organisers had asked for 10 million. Cities all over seemed to be packed with demonstrators.

It seems rather rude to cheer when someone loses their job.

He resigned. He wasn't fired!

 

[IDB87]

This is a great victory for freedom and civil rights, and a great defeat for the forces of brutality and dictatorship.

Not yet Thunder. They merely overthrew the President. The real fun is just beginning.

 

[ohms]

Sounds like the military may now be in control.

 

[Thunder]

It seems rather rude to cheer when someone loses their job.

should we cry a few tears for a 30 year dictator who is forced out by the people?

the dude is lucky to still have his freaking head.

 

[icerat]

switzerland has frozen his bank accounts

 

[Mycroft]

Sounds like the military may now be in control.

Yeah, let's all cheer for the newest military dictatorship in the Middle East!

Seriously, let's hope this crap-shoot turns out well for Egyptians.

 

[A'isha]

Yeah, let's all cheer for the newest military dictatorship in the Middle East!

Seriously, let's hope this crap-shoot turns out well for Egyptians.

Yeah, it's not going to automatically be puppies and unicorns and rainbows for Egypt just because Mubarak is out.

This is now the most dangerously precarious time for Egypt and Egyptians.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

This is a great victory for freedom and civil rights, and a great defeat for the forces of brutality and dictatorship.

Remember, people cheered when the Ayatollah Khomeini came to power too.

We all know how that worked out.

 

[Mycroft]

Yeah, it's not going to automatically be puppies and unicorns and rainbows for Egypt just because Mubarak is out.

This is now the most dangerously precarious time for Egypt and Egyptians.

I wonder if maybe his first idea of waiting until September might not have been a good idea. That would have been seven months to organize new elections where different political parties could form and campaign, and the electorate could at least have some semblance of an educated choice. I know that's not as satisfying to those who wanted Mubarak out ASAP, but might have been less dangerous.

Let's hope my fears prove groundless.

 

[dudalb]

Yeah, let's all cheer for the newest military dictatorship in the Middle East!

Seriously, let's hope this crap-shoot turns out well for Egyptians.

I have no love for Murabarak, but it's a crap shoot. A lot of people are viewing this with Rose Colored Glasses.
The record of the Mid East when it comes to democracy is not good. It migth be a case of "Old Boss Same As The New Boss".