Michael Winship | An Egyptian Voice of Democracy Says, Tell Old Pharaoh, Go

Michael Winship | An Egyptian Voice of Democracy Says, Tell Old Pharaoh, Go
Michael Winship, Truthout: "'The culture of democracy is still far away.' That's what Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman told a group of the country's newspaper editors on Tuesday. It was just two days before President Hosni Mubarak reconfirmed that he had no intention of resigning until September. But on Friday, Mubarak was gone. Suleiman had said the continued demonstrations in Cairo and across the nation were 'disrespectful' of Mubarak and warned of 'the dark bats of the night emerging to terrorize the people,' a threat that sounds more Transylvanian than Egyptian. But the blood of the more than 300 demonstrators who have died in Egypt was all too real."
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