Egypt

     Egypt has recently had a major change in their government. Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11, 2011. He was the president of Egypt for 30 years. He told the people of Egypt that he was going to resign in September during the elections, but resigned a few days later.     He resigned due to protests against him that started on January 25, 2011. Because of the protests he told the people of Egypt that he would not run for president in the September election and that there would be constitutional reform. This did not satisfy the people of Egypt, so they kept on protesting.
     The next day clashes broke out between people for Mubarak and people against Mubarak. Some of the people for Mubarak turned out to be thieves and the police dressed in regular clothing. They were doing dirty work as if the nation was split.
     On February 10, 2011 Mubarak told the public that he would not be resigning until September. The next day Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak had resigned. The public cheered and was very happy.
     I am happy that Mubarak is no longer the president of Egypt. This is because I feel that it was unfair for Mubarak to be the president for 30 years. He was more of a dictator than a president. The people didn't have a say in what was going on. Egypt should have a government like ours, where the president can't serve any longer than 10 years.
     This relates to class because we discussed what was going on in Egypt and what we had seen on the news.
     Links

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak#Revolution_and_resignation
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt#Republic