U.S. says Mubarak can't just "shuffle the deck"

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/29/us-egypt-usa-idUSTRE70R6A920110129?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Politics+News%29

The United States told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday it was not enough to simply "shuffle the deck" with a shake-up of his government and pressed him to make good on his promise of genuine reform.

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"The Egyptian government can't reshuffle the deck and then stand pat," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a message on Twitter after Mubarak fired his government.

"President Mubarak's words pledging reform must be followed by action," he added, echoing Obama's call on Friday for Mubarak to embrace a new political dynamic.

Crowley's comments came before Mubarak picked his intelligence chief and confidante, Omar Suleiman, as vice president, a post Mubarak has never been filled in 30 years of his rule.

[Enrique]

1. U.S. says a lot of things in public

and does a lot of other things covertly.

[emulatorloo]

3. Speaking of which - "America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising"

Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel leaders behind uprising
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x602427

Wikileaks based article.

[Lint Head]

2. Either Mubarak goes down or he becomes more of an overbearing

dictator than he already is.

[Alexander]

4. How exactly would Mubarak enact reform without giving up control of Egypt?

Either Mubarak stays and remains a dictator or leaves and gives up his power.