Wages of Sin

Egypt is free!
It has shed its tyrant, who was, unfortunately as Der Spiegel puts it, The West's Favorite Tyrant.
The sound you hear is Egyptian citizens celebrating, with a background scurrying of CIA and other covert operatives trying to cover up the evidence. Recall that Abu Omar was kidnapped in Italy and taken to Egypt, where the USA had him tortured by the obliging security forces of Mubarak.

Now there will be some tortured chickens coming home to roost, and some chickens escaped from Egyptian prisons. Will they bear a grudge against the USA? Who knows? But the events that flow from those monstrous acts by Bush and Cheney and the Neo-con establishment will now be paid for. Hitherto, we thought torture was a freebie. Now we may see that there is an excise tax on it.

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