If, as the crowds begin to react to the Mubarak speech, they create room for a soft military coup, that is notavictory for democracy but a usurpation and tarnishing of its name.
"We need the support of the people, and making sure their lives are better under this government will bring a lasting victory, not just military operations, " said Wardak.
Henry Rangel Silva, now defense minister and former intelligence chief of the Venezuelan Army, said in a newspaper interview that the military would not accept an opposition victory in the October, 2012 election.