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Al Jazeera reporting protesters (some) saying they will march on the Palace, Friday.
When Washington gives the order the Egyptian generals will authorize the use of deadly force against the demonstrators. The only reason Washington is holding off on a crackdown at the moment is to see if the protesters will accept the proposed compromise deal with the current US backed regime staying in place under new leadership.

The likely outcome is that some of the protesters will accept the compromise while some will not and thus be forced into making a stand by marching on the Presidential Palace. Thats where the army comes into play putting down the protests by use of force under the pretense of keeping the peace and allowing the "new" government to function.

In the end it will be the same US puppet regime in power with perhaps a few minor concessions to keep the Egyptian people at bay.
Mubarak and the Egyptian military are not puppets, they do what is best for them, not the US or any other country.
You don't think the billion dollar "aid" package influences them then?
Sure, but for a country of 80 million people a billion dollars is a drop in the bucket. They are entering any partnerships to better their position, not a foreigners. Mubarak was against the Iraq war, he never made domestic concessions the US has been calling for, he never selected a Vice President, he intended to make his son the next leader. If he was a foreign puppet with no support inside Egypt he wouldn't have lasted thirty seconds let alone thirty years. The problems in Egypt are larger then Mubarak, no leader is going to be able to fix the problems there. Egypt has 80 million people with a still growing population, 40 percent of those people live in utter poverty. There is no way they could take those people out of poverty and give them fairly good lives because they don't have the resources to do so.