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Not as meaningful as it seems.

The military's been in power, through proxy leaders, since 1952. Every leader has been ex-military. So "whether Mubarak will step down" seems like a bit of a red herring; the real question is whether the military ruling class will permit free/fair elections.

Reference: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-williams-egypt-20110210,0,192158.story

ERobson (talk)‎18:31, 11 February 2011

For the military to screw this up now, would probably mean war. I doubt the US would have allowed this to happen if there wasn't some diplomatic assurance of certain measures, especially from the military. This was planned out and speeches wrote 24 hours ago. Mubarak didn't just have an epiphany. Besides, elections, technically by the constitution as it's written, would take place in 60 days.

DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon)‎21:35, 11 February 2011
 
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