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Egyptian liberals embrace the military, brooking no dissent  By
David D. Kirkpatrick  New York Times   CAIRO » In the square
where liberals and Islamists once chanted together for
democracy, demonstrators now carry posters hailing as a national
hero the general who ousted the country's first elected
president, Mohammed Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood. Liberal
talk-show hosts denounce the Brotherhood as a foreign menace and
as "sadistic, extremely violent creatures" unfit for political
life. A leading human rights advocate blames the Brotherhood's
"filthy" leaders for the deaths of more than 50 of their own
supporters in a mass shooting by soldiers and the police.  A
hypernationalist euphoria unleashed in Egypt by the toppling of
Morsi has swept up even liberals and leftists who spent years
struggling against the country's previous military-backed
governments.  An unpopular few among them ha