Senator Patrick Leahy: Egypt Will Lose Aid If Mubarak Does Not Step Down (VIDEO)

If Mubarak leaves now, Egypt will be thrown into chaos. Who will be head of state of Egypt? It will be a mad dash for power and will result in another dictator. Instead, the protesters should be organizing and planning for an upcoming election. The winner can take over the presidency and a peaceful, real transition can occur. However, why do that? Protesting and starting cars on fire are so much better.

==========­==========­==========­==========­==========­=

Egypt will be just fine with Mubarak and his Vice T/orturer-­in-Chief gone now.

The momentum for a popu/ist d/emocracy is there now.

As George Will said of Obama's candidacy for the presidency when Democratic critlcs were saying he was too young, it wasn't his turn, etc., "When the girl is up on her toes, klss her."

The Egyptian people are up on their toes; they're not going to wait until September.  And why should they have to?  They want Mubarak gone now.  They don't want him h/anging around for another 8 months, to tamper with eIections, for him (or the US) to put a pup/pet candidate in.  

Journalist­s are being rounded up, and with the US and UK helping Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommun­ications and Identify Dissident Voices, if the protesters leave Tahrir Square the dissidents are next in line to be rounded up.  Especially with Egypt's new VP our 'go to'-guy for t/orture when we rendition.  "Egyptian VP Refuses Dialogue Until Protests End"?  Are they kidding with that?  The only leverage the Egyptian people have, the only hope these protesters have, their strength, is their numbers protesting openly out in the streets, in Tahrir Square and elsewhere around Egypt.

This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to manipuIate the system to retain their power and controI over us to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable­.  But they never do, and more often than not, they prevail because we give in.  We The People 'compromis­e'.  And through our 'reasonabl­eness', we find ourselves in the situation we're in now:  Our fortunes spent, in the pockets of the top 2%, while we're left with the shards of the American Dream.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost