# Cutting off aid to Egypt is the law

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**Created:** [July 6, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-off-aid-to-egypt-is-the-law/662825 "2013-07-06T23:52:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-off-aid-to-egypt-is-the-law/662825/102 "2013-07-12T19:53:49Z")

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> [@NotfooledbyW](#):
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> I think a fair argument for continued $ support to the Egyptian military within the law as written is the word ‘duly’ as in ‘duly elected head of government’.

IIRC, Carter Center certified Egyptian elections as “broadly reflecting the will of the Egyptian people” and again, IIRC, US government agreed with that.

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> Enough Egyptians rejected Morsi and the case that Morsi was duly elected rests only with the Muslim Brotherhood’s most ardent fillers and thus evaporated.

… and with the US government. … and with the Carter Center.

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