Speaking from Martha’s Vineyard Thursday, the president strongly condemned security forces going after supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.
“America cannot determine the future of Egypt, that’s a task for the Egyptian people,” Obama said. “We don’t take sides.”
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That's not exactly right. Obama and his regime has helped incite the riots and he has also supported the military.
Washington Free Beacon reports:
"Obama’s support for Muslim Brotherhood Islamists in Egypt is driving the powerful military there against the United States and toward Moscow, Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon reported."
By the way, The Washington Free Beacon also reported in the same article:
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Washington Free Beacon reports:
"Obama’s support for Muslim Brotherhood Islamists in Egypt is driving the powerful military there against the United States and toward Moscow, Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon reported."
By the way, The Washington Free Beacon also reported in the same article:
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State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki curtly replied Thursday to Associated Press reporter Matt Lee that the policies of the Obama administration regarding Egypt and Syria were in fact worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
LEE: All right. And then my last one — and I will stop, I promise, after this — do you think or is the administration confident that the steps — that the policy that you have pursued thus far in Egypt and also in Syria are worthy of a president who not so long ago won the Nobel peace prize?
PSAKI: Yes, Matt.
LEE: You do. OK.
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While the Obama administration throws its support behind Egypt's military, some members of Congress are looking at withholding some or all of America's annual $1.5 billion aid package if a civilian government isn't quickly restored....
The administration insisted Monday that it won't withhold funds from Egypt's army after its second takeover of a civilian government in the past 29 months. Most of the money goes to the military under an arrangement U.S. leaders have honored since Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
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The Telegraph back in 2011:
The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.
On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011...
The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.
In a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year.
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ABC News also in 2011:
President Obama today told embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that relinquishing power was the right decision, but the transition to a new government "must begin now."
Obama also praised the peaceful demonstrators in Egypt, calling them an "inspiration to people around the world."
"To the people of Egypt, particularly the young people of Egypt, I want to be clear," Obama said today. "We hear your voices."
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The Guardian July 3, 2013:
Earlier this week, President Obama appeared to encourage protesters by publicly urging Morsi to consider "other options" for dealing with the popular unrest.
"Democracy is not just about elections. It's also about: how are you working with an opposition; how do you treat dissenting voices; how do you treat minority groups," Obama said on Monday.
But the State Department was later forced to downplay the remarks amid rumours that the US was effectively calling for fresh elections and therefore condoning the threat of force to overturn a democratically elected president. "The reports that we have been urging early elections are inaccurate," said a Psaki said on Tuesday.
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