Mubarak Has Stark Warning for Obama's Endorsement of Brotherhood

It's rather hard to argue the points made by Hosni Mubarak during a phone call to Israeli politician and Labor Party member Benjamin Ben-Eliezer. Consider him officially on the record as saying the Muslim Brotherhood takeover is coming and it's going to portend an extremely dangerous and unstable Middle East. In addition to that stark warning, he makes a good case against George W. Bush that's very difficult to argue; he cites similar examples that happened on Bush's watch.

Via Haaretz:

Hosni Mubarak had harsh words for the United States and what he described as its misguided quest for democracy in the Middle East in a telephone call with an Israeli lawmaker a day before he quit as Egypt's president.

The legislator, former cabinet minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, said on TV Friday that he came away from the 20-minute conversation on Thursday with the feeling the 82-year-old leader realized "it was the end of the Mubarak era".

"He had very tough things to say about the United States," said Ben-Eliezer, a member of the Labor Party who has held talks with Mubarak on numerous occasions while serving in various Israeli coalition governments.

"He gave me a lesson in democracy and said: 'We see the democracy the United States spearheaded in Iran and with Hamas, in Gaza, and that's the fate of the Middle East,'" Ben-Eliezer said.

"'They may be talking about democracy but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,'" he quoted Mubarak as saying.

Let's also not forget that Sharia Law is written into both the Afghanistan and Iraqi Constitutions that the United States helped to write. On top of that, Bush also recently said he was 'heartened' by Mubarak's exit.

In light of these events, history may not be too kind to George W. Bush.

h/t Weasel Zippers