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John Kerry "Shocked And Humiliated" On First Day Of Middle-East Tour
John Kerry came, saw and as usual made a horse ass out of himself.
Secretary of State John Kerry voiced strong U.S. support for Egypt's new president and signaled that Washington will continue the flow of military aid in an American welcome of the post-coup government.
Mr. Kerry said that the U.S. had recently released $575 million in assistance for Egypt's military and that he was confident 10 Apache helicopters would be delivered to Egypt soon.
"I am confident that we will be able to ultimately get the full amount of aid," Mr. Kerry said in his first stop on a regional tour focused largely on responding to the crisis in Iraq. "I am confident…that the Apaches will come and that they will come very, very soon."
Then from this morning:
Three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced to seven years in jail by an Egyptian judge on Monday for aiding a "terrorist organization", drawing criticism from Western governments who said the verdict undermined freedom of expression.
And then:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that he had phoned Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri on Monday to register Washington's "serious displeasure" with the sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists to seven years in jail.
"Today's conviction is obviously a chilling and draconian sentence," he told reporters in Baghdad.
"When I heard the verdict today I was so concerned about it, frankly, disappointed in it, that I immediately picked up the telephone and talked to the foreign minister of Egypt and registered our serious displeasure at this kind of verdict," he said.
So... Kerry immediately "picked up the phone and talked" to someone upon this latest public humiliation of the "top" US diplomat. Is it the same someone who will be signing the receipt on the delivery notice of the 10 US Apaches, and the confirmation of the $575 million inbound wire from the US Treasury?
Egypt's military-dominated government has delivered a humiliating, public slap in the face to John Kerry, the US secretary of state, by sentencing three al-Jazeera journalists to long prison terms only hours after Kerry personally expressed his deep concern about the case in high-level meetings in Cairo. The snub represents a disastrous beginning to Kerry's already fraught Middle East tour, which took him to Baghdad on Monday for crisis talks about the Islamist extremist uprising.
The verdict, by a court responsive to government wishes, will also be seen as a deliberate, crude signal to President Barack Obama, who criticised Egypt's deteriorating human rights record after the former general, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, seized power in a coup last year. Sisi has since had himself voted president. His elected predecessor, Mohammed Morsi, and thousands of his Muslim Brotherhood supporters remain in jail while hundreds of others have been killed.
In what US officials said were "candid" talks with Sisi, Kerry "emphasised our strong support for upholding the universal rights and freedoms of all Egyptians, including freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association". He noted a number of promises by Egyptian leaders "are yet to be fulfilled", but added that "the United States remains deeply committed to seeing Egypt succeed".
The hollowness of all this careful diplomatic language was exposed for all to see by the court's verdict, which diplomats and observers said was reached without the complication of supporting evidence. It seems clear now that Kerry was wasting his breath; the sentences were pre-determined, intended as a stark warning to Egyptian and foreign media and as a symbol of the regime's determination to demonstrate its independence of Washington.
This is ironic given that, before the talks, the US had made available most of the $575m (£328m) in military aid frozen by Congress after the coup against Morsi. Kerry offered more blandishments in the form of 10 Apache attack helicopters, which he said would be supplied to Egypt "very soon". This is exactly the sort of deadly air power that Iraq's government has pleaded for but has so far been denied by Obama.
Kerry must now be asking himself whether it was entirely sensible to offer such diplomatic, financial and military support to Sisi unconditionally before their meeting and before the court announced its verdict. This is not the way hard-headed, worldly-wise American secretaries of state, such as Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and James Baker, would have gone about it. All old Middle East hands, they would surely have driven a tougher bargain. On the other hand, they would all probably have placed America's and Israel's strategic interest in a strong, stable pro-western Egypt above human rights issues. Perhaps this is what Kerry has done, too.
Whatever his reasoning, Kerry's record in the region has been similarly uninspiring. He invested considerable personal prestige, time and effort in pursuing resumed peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, to no avail. This failure was entirely predictable, given the personalities involved on both sides and the lack of new ideas.
Artist's rendering of John Kerry after said "humiliating, public slap."

As for US "foreign policy", just how many other ways can one describe a flaming, slow and increasingly faster-motion trainwreck?
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What a queermo.
Kerry Krome Horse needs Breathe right Strips across his entire face. good gawd.
Poor fella just wants a carrot.
WTF!!!*
*whinnies through feedbag
How's the depleted uraniam taste asshole? Not u 4th stooging. That was directed at the asshole
"The name's Kohn. John Kohn."
Dear Diebold:
THANK YOU!
Dear John,
Want to be taken seriously again?
"Kerry offered more blandishments in the form of 10 Apache attack helicopters, which he said would be supplied to Egypt "very soon"."
Just deliver the 10 Apaches to Al Sissy guns ablazing.
No more fucking Egyptian problems.
Too bad the F-35s weren't delivered to Isreal in the same manner...
A "Shock and Awe" attack on Bandar and the Saudi Royals in Riyadh and no more AlQaeda/ISIS...
Merika has so many brilliant people. Why does the State Dept have so few of them?
Still No Evidence Has Been Provided That He In Not An ALIEN GRAY...
Secretary of State Lurch probably should hire Cousin IT to handle all public appearances from this moment forward.
This is the kind of great negotiating skill one acquires when one works in government all his life and marries a reich heiress and never works a day in the private sector grinding out a living. What else would anyone expect from this elitist diletante.
John Kerry knows Chumba's pimp hand.
I am Chumbawamba.
Apache gunships as in killing machines???
That's moar ray-ciss then Redskins.
John Kerry walks into an Iraqi pub looking depressed. bartender: why the long face?
The convo went like this:
Bartender: Achallajachjahala?
Kerry: Brbrbrbbrbbrbrbr Whiiiiiny!
PEACE IN OUR TIMES
We did everything we could to support the bloodthirsty thief Mubarak. Then we did everything we could to push him out and install Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. THEN we did everything we could to tear down Morsi and re-install the generals. NOW we're surprised to learn we've pissed off all sides?
Americans: people hate you all over the world. Not you individually, but your government. It would be a much more fun and a whole lot cheaper if you would just leave everyone else alone.
American values:
"and signaled that Washington will continue the flow of military aid in an American welcome " we come in peace, shoot to kill
"Sisi has since had himself voted president." how dare he have himself voted by the people, clearly underhand.
We did everything we could to support the bloodthirsty thief Mubarak. Then we did everything we could to push him out and install Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. THEN we did everything we could to tear down Morsi and re-install the generals. NOW we're surprised to learn we've pissed off all sides?
Americans: people hate you all over the world. Not you individually, but your government. It would be a much more fun and a whole lot cheaper if you would just leave everyone else alone.
until israel gets no more than equal treatment with other mideast actors, including the palestinians, things will get worse for the u.s.
Lurch? More like Mongo in Blazing Saddles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10
Lurch Kohn on his first day of the 'middle-east' tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKVfhZoFKX8
He speaks their language, you know.
One does not need to be a right-wing consipracy nutcase to understand that American politicians are generally incompetent.
Hanlon's razor! lol.
"Merika has so many brilliant people. Why does the State Dept have so few of them?"
They are all brilliant 138 IQ tribe members aka dumb asses. All so special brilliant rich kids living off the peasants, just ask them. We should import more of them from Haiti and Israel. /sarc
Too bad you were born. Oh wait, you weren't born, you were shitted.
I am bit light on my Jihadi protocols.
When al-Qaeda takes delivery of the Apaches, do they have to yell 'Allah Akbar' when employing the weapon systems?
No no... Al Qaeda is only cleared to receive Blackhawks right now...
http://www.usarmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/5-31.jpg
He's got a nice mouth...que banjo music
Only when they deliver the hell-fire missiles up your nan's bum methinks.
now let's not forget important distinctions: isis was kicked out of al qaeda for unnecessary roughness: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/al-qaeda-disavows-any-ti...
I thought there were laws in place about providing aid to nations suffering a coup?
I know, they are just for the little people and not the government.
When people break the law, it is a heinous crime.
When the government does it, the law was misguided or didn't apply to them because they write the laws.
What is that smell, is that Freedom Fries? Umm, just in time for the 4th of July.
pods
"Do as I say, not as I do."
The gov't has a monopoly on the use of force, remember.
On the legal use of force.
Seems at the end they always forget that caveat. idk, nothing surprises me anymore.
pods
The point is well taken sir
Said the Polish foreign minister.
Kerry's just doing his job. Selling arms to help the defense contractors deal with the end of the two wars they profited so handsomely from. Budget cuts here? No problem. Sell stuff elsewhere.
why does Egypt put journalists they don't like in jail?
Because they don't have the IRS
the journalists don't drive hackable Mercedes?
The "law" is for plunder and control.
Next time a gun and badge thug tells you, "It's the law," remember that he is really saying that "The law is my self justification for plundering or murdering you."
Note: For more on the law, see Bastiat's "The Law."
I already have a copy. :)
I'll wait for the movie.
Starring Marky Mark.
Actually The Law is a very short essay, and they have it on mp3 files as well.
Great to read/listen to an actual thinker.
pods
The Ashkenazi interpretation and bastardization like Rand's work?!
No thanks.
Note: My opinion is that the reason they did the Rand movies was to make it hard to quote her without coming off as one of those guys that quotes movies in arguments or debates--debasement.
and lives in . . . .
Laws don't apply to these incompetent, narcissistic cock suckers.
"I love the smell of freedom fries in th mournin.."
Oh, stop, pods, stop....laws? LAWS - you're hilarious!
Frankly I am surprised. I distinctly remember Barry's apology tour and the stop on Cairo where he expressed that he deeply understood the motivations of Muslims globally. I expected that he would short shaft the Israelis and bias towards Muzzie govs.
Instead he has carried Israeli water as much as bush and made the whole ME a fucking plague of subterfuge and dissent. He couldn't have done better job than what he has done if his name had been Obamastein.
Are you serious Clark?
He's supported the MuBro and ISIS for 3 years with guns and money and has fought Netenyahu on every ocassion possible.
Any anti israeli sentiment is kabuki theater and Saudi Arabia, Israel and ISIS all are on the same team. Israel has been ferrying wounded savages to hospitals from Syria for years and as a matter of fact, ISRAELI rations were recently found after an operation to liquidate ISIS rodents was prosecuted by Kurds.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930402001120
Our government is rotten to the core and doesn't represent us. The same can be said for Israelis. It is disgusting but sadly accurate.
Rotten to the core? It is generally agreed that people get the government they deserve. Particularly in your case there appears no reason to refute this adage eh? Eh?
"It is generally agreed that people get the government they deserve."
How democracy essentially functions in a facist scenario:
You get to decide which one of two ungodly trolls gets to fuck you, therefore, you deserve your choice.
Generally agreed on by who?
I stick to the adage that in this day and age if voting made a difference it would be illegal. The west is an oligarchy and any idea that some organic democracy exists here is science fiction. So.. feel free to bay at the moon at your leisure dear friend.
As for My government, I have to stop what I'm doing to free up all my faculties to properly detest the current Canadian regime. Every time I drive by Harper's office in Calgary I give him the Pierre Trudeau Salute.
Our Government is Israeli to the Core.
John Frankenstein Kerry AKA Herman Munster Jr. is an intergalactic embarrassment. The ease at which he lies makes one wonder if he believes his hype or he's a well placed cog in the machine. Logic says its the latter because if the unwashed masses like us know that he excretes nothing but bullshit then he certainly should..
I've said before, the likes of him and McCain inter alia have to be imbued with some sort of demonic influence.
"intergalactic embarrassment" +1
"inter alia" - 2
Otherwise once again dirt's flowery but acerbic prose is most wonderful to behold and here's to spending the subsequent hours whiling away in rapt anticipation of the next installment.
Nice. I like it.
Ain't that Italian for salad dressing?
As someone who was alive during the Carter years, one reflects on that administrations's goofily sincere ineptitude with actual fondness when compared to the aggressively stupid and arrogantly narcissistic clown car brigade that the Obama administration has become. It has been on such a mind-bending downward spiral over the last 5+ years that one honestly wonders how much more the country can stand before it literally implodes.
lol. So true. Just when you think we are at full retard, they manage to up the game a little more.
when the numbers get too high, they just adjust the calculation just like inflation, unemployment, etc...
Obama/Kerry/Hillary... And people are surprised our Middle East policies are in tatters?
And not just that, but our ONLY option as we're told is to put them right back in? Out of a country of 300 million, we're to believe this it they're the BEST we got and now it's the lunatic Hitlerys turn she 'gots next'? WTF?
What if they ARE the best we got? (ZHers notwithstanding)
With respect, but they are just the visible puppets of the DC US' foreign tyranny.
Sort of like blaming the shitty puppet show on the puppets.
"Guillotines free the people."
You break it you bought it. Just a bunch of losers struggling through a lose-lose situation.
Two approaches from here;
Pick a side, Sunni or Shia, then play to win.
Or
Drop the ball, go completely hands-off, and let Allah sort them out.
Of course, that assumes the U.S. actually wants to look afterit's own self interests.
Most likely it'll be more of the same. Play both ends against the middle. That way the MIC sells the most weapons possible.
Pretty clear now that they are just making it up as they go.
I wonder if we can trade our horse (Kerry) for a few of their camels!
As long as it isn't Hillary. I wouldn't want to 'hump' that now...
Well Mongo, everyone knows you have fukkin dynamite in your right hand so get some press credentials and do the world a favor LOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cDfnQD0ws
Mongo's favotite part:-) close 2nd is Cleavon " damn man why you do that to yoself" hehe it's what I was thinking when I saw Kerry's fucked up mug on that last pic!
So.. what do you like to do?
Play chess.. Screw..
Let's play chess..
Double post. Dirtlump went full retard.
im irish treu and tru dun a bit a diggin in me times done a bit a diggin on der kerry of killarney clan.
cante finds a fuckin ting.
der head is not really irish i der and looks about 20 horse hands long from skull cap to cleft chin.
are yer sure hes from killarney?
some ones shuds tie him up for der night and gets him a nose bag of gmo oats.
".....upholding the universal rights of Egyptians.....freedom of assembly....expression... "
That is to say, unless of course the secret service is present. Then its a federal beef.
The hypocricy is palpable.
You are such a doofus. You MUST have missed the 1st amendment zones.
/s
Ah, like that American freedom of speech/assembly--like those fenced off "free speech" areas surrounded by cops? I think Egypt's a little more honest in its attitude towards its citizens.
The only "rights" Mr Kerry is upholding is the right of the helicopter mfgr to sell their articles of death to the next bidder. Or, more to the point, to have american foreign aid pay for the helicopters which are then delivered to the next oppressor in line. Who was it who said "He's a sonofabitch, but he's OUR sonofabitch."
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course..."
How's that Hope and Change working out for ya?
Like a punch in the mouth thank you.
You ain't seen nuttin yet.....wait till they make you bend over..............
Great picture at the bottom...
Bitch slapped like the little bitch John Kerry is!
There must have been pretzels involved...
It is kind of funny because the Pentagon and American military are a bunch of cowards. In Egypt, they threw Obama's Muslim Brotherhood out. The US Military, intel and Pentagon are NWO, Soros Obama's boys and dupes. Cowards. Sending American boys to die for the NWO and Obama.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/06/21/how-egyptians-view-muslim-brothe...
The Egyptian and Syrian Army are not cowards fighting the MB and Al See EYe Aye Duh-ISIS-NWO.
I was at a relatives house this fall and they had a ball game on. I do not watch TV shit. It was Texas AM or soemthing with Johnny Manziel. The stadium is full of these young men in uniform probably ROTC or something. What stupid fux. How stupid and pathetic as they want to be Obama's little cannon fodder bitches because the Military is filled with cowards who fail to protect the Constitution. Sheep.
By the time they graduate they will be the next guys cannon fodder.
American diplomacy at its finest. XD
Good to know that 10 more Apache helicopters will end up in the hands of ISIS!
(What a bunch of jackholes!)
Now you see that's actually good. Conflict in the Middle East boosts oil prices and keeps the arms deals flowing. How are the war profiteers supposed to make money during peace time?
WILBURRRRRRRRRR!
575 million to Egypt of all fucking countries.....
As if we can really afford to throw money around like that
Ya throw it at me. I promise all reporters a fair trial. Wait why is there a trial at all??? That was your first clue John.
It's only a half-billion.
Oh, wait...
As if we can really afford to throw money around like that
it's not real money backed by anything, just change a number in a computer, don't even have to print notes.
lots probably doesn't even appear on any set of accounts.
CIA probably prints as much as it wants.
Poor, poor Secretariat of State......
I thought a horse kicked him in the face as Kerry came up from behind for some felattio
How the hell did COSMOS get down-votes on that? Some of y'all feel sorry for the horse?
The horse probably reminded Kerry of that male Wife he has...
Doesn't matter, he will fly to Mosul and hold a piece of paper and declare "Let me be clear, peace in our time"
This is what happens when you send a horse to do a man's job.
Hate to see what his farrier looks like.
Mr. Ed would be a massive improvement.
Just happy the rest of the country can enjoy the kind of quality work we here in MA have come to expect from the junior senator for the past 30 years. At least he wasn't elected president - yet..
Elected...... Lol. You crack me up.
#ReadyForHillary
Kankles/HorseFace 2016
#Bitchez
May the horse be with you.
Qatar is the font of many of the problems in MENA. The sentences were a message to Qatar. Maybe the journalists should just "man up" and accept their fate?
I would say its more like Qatar wants to switch sides.
The Emir quit and his son took over last year. No more MB and a planned gas pipieline under the Persian Gulf will make themm part of Team GazProm.
Initial results - World Cup 2022 may be leaving. US trade sanctions just announced. Aljazeera, Qatar entity, has their reporters jailed in Egypt for 7 yesrs. Probably more behind the scenes.
military "aid". love the way they phrase things.
war is peace bitchez
John Kerry and his ilk are the crem de la crem. The finest specimen of mankind this nation can produce. If they can't fix this, there is nobody in this nation who can. May God have mercy on our souls.
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His.). -- Arnaud Amalric
Kerry was put in place to be a punching bag and give Hillary temporal space (remember the attention span of the Amerikan public) for her 2016 election.
You would have thought Teresa could have bought a better man.
Maybe he's hung like a horse.
You meant 'she'; but yeah. Teresa's gotta be a man.
Better Man? Yes!
Better connected corrupt sociopath? Probably not. Hillary was already taken.
Shocking!
Give the poor bastard a Nobel Peace Prize. He deserves on as much as Obama, Kissinger and Begin did.
How did this guy got he's job?
A5th grader would do better.
neigh!!!!!!!!!!
You guys stop horsing around! Kerry can't help it but you can!
A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse of course,
Alas, dear lady, it cannot be helped. Somehow it is always funny and never in poor taste to call John Kerry a horse faced Herman Munster or to make other equine comparisons.
It's all we have left...
To know the horse look at his history. In this case, his MKULTRA and Brotherhood of the Bell. I think Vietnam was MK hard for Mr. Kohn, enough so that he obeyed his handlers on command to gtfo, and afterward... to avoid prosecution.
The picture of Kerry at the end post his "bitch slap" was worth reading through the entire article. That slap will leave a mark ...
Obama's Rent Boy - The whole west wing is going to slip him a lenght for the whole season....
Go on pave the road for Hilary AKA the WHORE of BABYLON. You dumb fucker John boy!
52 million for a helicopter?
Why not hire 52 million Egyptians?
Better than what the US does.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/10/al-jazee...
and for additional monday humor...be sure to visit the comment section.cheers
"Germany has decided its gold is safe in American hands.
Surging mistrust of the euro during Europe’s debt crisis fed a campaign to bring Germany’s entire $141 billion gold reserve home from New York and London. Now, after politics shifted in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition, the government has concluded that stashing half its bullion abroad is prudent after all.
“The Americans are taking good care of our gold,” Norbert Barthle, the budget spokesman for Merkel’s Christian Democratic bloc in parliament, said in an interview. “Objectively, there’s absolutely no reason for mistrust.”
Ending talk of repatriating the world’s second-biggest gold reserves removes a potential irritant in U.S.-German relations. It’s also a rebuff to critics including the anti-euro Alternative for Germany party, which says all the gold should return to Frankfurt so it can’t be impounded to blackmail Germany into keeping the currency union together.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-23/german-gold-stays-in-new-york-i...
"By deception..." nevermind
“The Americans are taking good care of our gold,” Norbert Barthle, the budget spokesman for Merkel’s Christian Democratic bloc in parliament, said in an interview. “Objectively, there’s absolutely no reason for mistrust.”
Yes and if the two countries are ever not BFF's I'm sure the USA will send all the Gold right away.
Wait, Bloomberg still allows comments?
In other news, today I learned that the EU is as "good as gold."
If that actually was Peter Boehringer bitch slapping them for quoting him out of context, they may not allow them much longer.
Why is it important for the US that "we" store Germany's gold? Why would it even be a point of contention and delay? It's so freaking obvious.
Exactly!
Stupid and/or dishonest Mainstream Media never ask the obvious questions :(
dewr isis love gold even more than are american virgins.
they goes crazy for the un corrupted pussy but goes bat shit mad fores der gold.
germnay nose dis thats why day let the jewish folks in new york looks after it safely to stiop isis goin in and rapin berliners
Und........ es ist weg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6Y8O-mI-M
@ Kaiser Sousa,
The Germans have just realised that their gold is gone, long gone, and have changed their stance. When sometime, in the possibly not too distant, future the German people (poor sods) get to the truth of the matter the present incumbents of the den of thieves will be long gone with quite a few of them on the payrolls of the Squid and JPMorgue.
What a fucking idiot....but don't worry, team Barry GOT dis shit handled!
Yea right....
Seriously though, can you imagine having a conversation with this pompous bloviating prick? I don't know what would be harder to suppress, the laughter or the urge to punch him in the face.
He is a joke. I would have no laughter to suppress in a conversation with Eric Holder though.
Lily Munster is one tough old broad...Herman can't get a break.
On the positive side ..... he has great hair.
Yeah, but do the curtains match the rug?
Then again, he probably shaves his vagina...so the question is moot.
Motherfucker NEEDS a damn face wig! What in the FUCK is going on in that asschin face area, seriously WTF??
More money pissed down the drain. I there any end to the madness? Is don't think Rand Paul would send the money or the helos to these thugs.