Bachmann Slams Obama for Not Stopping Mubarak's Overthrow: "Struggling to stay relevant in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) took aim over the weekend at this year's wave of democratic uprisings in the Middle East and at what she claimed was President Obama's many Middle East policy failures.
As the National Journal reports, Bachmann claimed the "Arab Spring" gave "rise to radical elements" and served to destabilize the Middle East in a dangerous way. The Minnesota GOPer also slammed Obama for failing to defend leaders such as Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak, who fell from power during his country's democratic protests and is now on criminal trial for corruption and conspiring to kill unarmed protesters. Bachmann said she regretted that "we saw [Egyptian] President [Hosni] Mubarak fall while President Obama sat on his hands"—a curious position considering Bachmann's earlier criticism of Obama for intervening during the Libyan uprising...."
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