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Originally Posted by Packlife
Personally I never really saw it as a classic military coup, which if I understand it right is a small group of a military that want to seize control of the power for them selves.
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The term for this is a Guardian Group, which is when someone, ex the military takes over to protect the country from the government. In some nations this is actually one of the assumed duties of the military.
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The funniest thing was people were saying "Oh but Morsi was democratically voted in" yeah an Hitler was voted in too, these guys had their shot at doing the right thing.
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Why do people keep saying that?
Actually Hitler was appointed Chancellor, he lost the election of Reichspräsident (President) to von Hindenburg. von Hindenburg appointed him to be Chancellor as a way of appeasing the Nazi party which had some 30% of the vote in that presidential election. On the death of von Hindenburg Hitler abolished the presidency, an illegal act which no one in the government opposed making him de facto leader of Germany.