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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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Rand would do what he was told to do, just like the rest of them. To think that politicians actually call the shots on these decisions is naive and laughable.
Rand Paul is a neo-con cum rag for the MIC!
Kerry him out!
Quick, get some Senators some posterboard and markers so they can make hashtag signs demanding their release.
that was John Kerry's photo after his "hockey accident".
Funny how it affected both eyes and not his nose. Go figure
Didn't he have his jaw broken in order to look more human?
....and this is the guy 'from the free world' also dealing with Moscow?!?!?!?!
Why not send Gomer Pyle....sorry Gomer!
If the Egyptians really had the" freedom of expression " that Kerry and his ilk are so keen on, I'm sure, nay
certain, they would have told him to " fuck off "
The Egyptian militayr already has massive amounts of military hardwre from the DC US and otherwise.
So Mr. Kohn gave the DC US MIC another $575 million bone--"Boeing, your EBT card has been topped off."
"When it stops making sense, is when it does."
Those would have been delivered far earlier with the MB gov...
The Egyptian and Syrian Army's had the guts to stand up and fight when their country was being taken over. The US Military did nothing. The US Military, Spec Ops and intel are all like General Betray-Us. Slimy little cowards.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/06/21/how-egyptians-view-muslim-brothe...
Betrayus is a little 5''9" general pussy and coward.
Why stand up when you can sellout.
"They sold out, but they also got free tickets for rides on my guillotine."
In disguise, Barry and Reggie ran through the nighttime docks, looking for a hiding spot between the big ships and warehouses....
"I did everything ValJar told me too, Reg. Now the MB and TPTB are after me."
"I know, baby. Look: a dumpster we can hide in! Quick!"
He forgot that your not supposed to talk about fight club. ESP when your a loser
Can someone please explain to me why we play footsies with countries for which we comprehend little or none of their culture? Yeah, I know...oil. Last I heard these loons traded all their oil for Sphinxes.
Oil, certainly, is part of it, but war is a very profitable endeavor for the banksters and MIC, and since they actually make our foreign policy decisions, there's your answer. It's a profit thang.
Kerry, go home!
I thought you did not want him back !
Oh, well, he DID call and register our displeasure at the journalists' sentences, and they DID listened to the phone call, so go ahead and send those helicoptors ASAP.
Kerry....Why the long face?
ISIS? SISI? Someone here has dyslexia?
Isis is also the Egyptian Goddess of the Throne...
Babylon :)
These fuckers love their ancient mysteries.
Barry and his followers - the soccer ball supply for the other world cup.
Free kicks for everyone - you can even free kick Moochelle.
"Free kicks for everyone"... For a second there I thought you said, Free kids for everyone!... My bad... Thinking about another scandal...
I feel bad for journalist, assuming they were journalist and only displaying the courage to investigate and report honestly and fairly as their job would dictate.
However, perhaps John Kerry and this administration should look in the mirror and consider their own behavior towards journalist before casting aspersions and judging another country's treatment towards journalist and citizens in general. While this administration hasn't openly jailed journalist they have made it clear that journalist will be wire tapped, followed, intimidated and even subject to one car accidents on a deserted roads if they do not "play ball" in the manner that the administration sees fit.
At what point does the US government put all of their focus inwardly, on America and the american people? The taxpayer, the american citizen, deserve no less than 110% of their elected officials energy, focus, ideas dedicated to the betterment of the 50 states that make up the union, not to mention every single taxpayer dollar dedicated to rebuilding our country. The notion that the US government tosses around trillions of dollars around the globe without even a second thought as to where the money comes from meanwhile complaining that the american taxpayer isn't giving enough and continues with the tired old mantra of "we need to pay our fair share".
It amazes me that the party of Kennedy, the camelot and standard to which democrats have identified with since the day he was shot, actually ESCHEWS one of the most repeated and admired phrases from his inaugruation speech in which he emphatically states "...ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country...". Yet when it comes to politics, these democrats dare not ask half the population to "ask not...." Apparently that applies only to a select few when it comes to governing the country and campaigning and vote seeking.
Instead these guys, who came in with "hope and change" platitudes are no different, no better, and in fact actually manage to be worse than their opposing predecessor that they hated to their very core. I place no blame for anyone voting for the man in 08. It was a crazy time that appeared to need shaking up. However, 2 years in, if those people didn't at least start second guessing themselves and to this day openly defend and support this administration then the intellectual dishonesty knows no bounds.
Lurch: Enraged:
"What? You gave them 7 years, Sisiboy? We liquidate them in the US! Here, look at these two stories on Breitbart and Hastings. You guy have to get with the program!"
the children this monster is eating clearly are not from good clean stock.
the blood of the kinder seems to be depleted uranium contaminated thus poisoning the gut of this horsey secretary of state.
moral of the story clean food inwards good digestion proper gut health reflected in a normal face outwards.
general electric du is melting the face of the jewish oirish head secretary of whatever.
pity the children for some are the food supply for this satanic israeli crew.
Relax. Kerry's sole mission is to make us remember how much better things were during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State.
Lurch could always find a job with a remake of the Adams Family.
John Forbes Kerry Heinz
http://youtu.be/cMRgv11fIjA?t=13s
It's a House Of Cards
In the mean time 99.9% of the Christan churches are burned and luted in Egypt! So that makes the USA a muslim sympathyzer corporation! Nice move Obama fukkers!
Wow, they play lute while it burns? How enchanting yet sociopathic and horrific.
Nero would be proud.....
Secretariat of State, horsing around at foreign policy.
Does Kerry remind anyone else of the cartoon charactor Clutch Cargo, or is it just me?
His mother held him by the tip of the nose and dipped the rest of his face in botox.
Secretary of State Herman Munster!
Because it's always funny:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-09-03/its-time-neocon-munsters
Truly a classic !
"upholding the universal rights and freedoms of all Egyptians, including freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association"
Those same rights and freedoms do not apply to the US people and anyone else in the world!
Someone needs to throw a horse shoe at him
LURCH !!...! STOP FLYING AROUND WASTING MY TAX DOLLARS !!!!
Lurch is much hotter. Euuuuuughhuhuhuhuhuh!
Everytime I see his picture I think of what someone on this board said " He is a haircut looking for a brain." Makes me laugh everytime.
Why the long face Seabiscut, someone give him a bag of oats.
Kerry to Egyptian military in private: "See our Crime Syndicate Feudalism is in the pandering, pacification mode. When we run low on funds we will rely mostly on force as well. Until then we still must put up a front. No offense, right?"
Poor John Kohn. Poor, poor John Kohn.
Is there anyone in DC doing anything for the American people or should we just rename the "U.S. Government" the "Government of the World"?
The U.S. Government declared war on the American People on November 23, 1963.
A coup was accomplished using the institutions and miniions of the U.S. government by the federal money counterfeiters. JFK was not the first U.S. President to go down under bullets paid for by the international banksters.
Now that he has become worthless, you can look for Ovomit to be martyred soon.
Long live King Biden and his bed-boy Juan Oboehner.
I, too, suspect Bath House may now be.....expendable.
Mooch could be the new Coretta Scott King!
Look at this picture of Nixon, Prescott Bush and Jack Ruby and try and tell me it wasn't a conspiracy! H.W. Bush, while a CIA spook, offed Kennedy.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=webhp&tbm=isch&source=hp&ei=qhK...
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/noaa-and-nasa-data-alterat...
Off topic but holy shit NOAA has been changing past data to make case for warming.. Lets just hope its peer reviewed by other liars. .sarc for Flaks sake..
Too bad it wasn't:
America's dead-horse-faced secretary John Q. Kerry was sentenced to seven years in jail by an Egyptian judge on Monday for aiding a "terrorist organization".
............and list Ovomit as an unindicted co-conspirator.
As if being a "kept man" his entire adult life isn't humiliating enough. When I think of Kerry, I think of what my ADI said to me at Parris Island in 1969.
"Laddie Buck, I wouldn't follow you into a whorehouse."
Did you ask him "Because of my big dick and your little one?"
ADI's love funny jokes.
You can pin purple hearts on a horse, but it's still just a horse.
Kerry's fussing over the 7 year sentences? How much would the US give Snowden, if they granted him due process and put him on trial?
"Kerry's record in the region has been similarly uninspiring. He invested considerable personal prestige...."
Kerry has considerable personal prestige? Who knew?
Well, considering that his household's total income tax was 11%. (on a several billion dollar fortune, as disclosed in the 2004 presidential primary campaign)
sarc: It is obvious it is his reputation -- and not his money -- that will turn this around.
Goes to show you can be wealthy and that doesn't remove stink.
"Wealthy" also does not remove ignorance and the stink of evil... But then, I just repeated your post...
I remember fondly the good old days when Israili settlements were the biggest Mideast headache.
Just because you are part of the fascist oligarchy doesn't mean you are smart...but then, guess you don't need to be.
What a horror show. Zombie visiting the middle east. He better play golf like Obama.
Kerry should have brought Biden's boy with him - he's an expert on the area.
"I am confident…that the Apaches will come and that they will come very, very soon."
Followed by the Blackfoot, Sioux and Cheyenne!
Lyrics by Steven Sondheim:
Isn't it rich? Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground and you in mid-air
Send in the clowns
Isn't it bliss? Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around and one who can't move
But where are the clowns? Send in the clowns
Seven years in prison. Interesting. I wonder how long a secret American court would have disappeared Edward Snowden for if he hadn't fled the country. I bet it would be a lot longer than that. An unintended consequence of Obama's war against American exceptionslism is that you recognize the tyrant next door first.
Kerry flies 6,000 miles to say "Gee Whiz....."
This is a guy who wrote HIMSELF up for 3 Purple Hearts on his faux 3-month Viet Nam deployment and also brought his own video camera to film himself at the time, purely in anticipation of a future political career. He is a total shyster and fraud.
One of the foremost of the eletist/faux Hebrew Decepticons.
How many Apache Helicopters can a yacht hold?
AutomaticEarth had a great piece on this one.
Debt Rattle Jun 23 2014: The Truth Goes First, Then The Morals
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/debt-rattle-jun-23-2014-the-truth-goes-first-then-the-morals/
Its all Kabuki theater. The fix is in. I can not believe the talking point that ISIS is so bad that Al Queda kicked them out is said with a straight face. This goes with the throwing babies out of incubators for an appeal to the lizard brain. Chances are the same folks are behind the script.
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2014/06/middle-east-explanation.html
How can we call Helicopters Apache! Thats racist in my world view!
Apache????!!!! This is sooooo insulting!!! Where is the patent and trademark office when we need them.
As the lies and scandals are exposed and the wheels come of the train....more and more stupidty to hold this wet sack of shit together will become more obvious.
Kerry played a game of front hand/back hand.....He asked for both and got it.
Ahh Kerry, he's worth every dime of the taxpayer's money.
Does it really matter in that I would bet a months pay that no more than 10% of the US population could even name the US Secretary of State. Probably no more than 10% could name said entity as a department within the federal government. An ignorant public gets what's coming to it. I'm just sorry that I and my family will have to suffer due to such willful ignorance.
America is going to reap exactly what we have sown....good and hard....
First Obama's gov't openly supports the Muslim Brotherhood's revolution, then openly chastises the Military's counter-revolution, and now Obama's gov't via this sociopathic cretin supports the new strongman. Why would any gov't trust anything coming from such a third rate bunch of punks, except that they have control over thousands of nuclear tipped missiles.
USSA Foreign Policy has devolved to a Big Stick -
ever since Kerry ate the carrot...
ugly tree
"The species of flora from which ugly people come"
"Look at that whore she musta fell out of the ugly tree, hit every branch and twig on the way down, smacked her head on the ugly rocks, got mauled by the ugly bear, dragged through the ugly forest, tossed in the ugly river and floated out towards the ugly sea"
Frankie, I know you thought what you saw was him er, eating the carrot, but, uh, this is an Obama administration. He is pretty ugly (dare I say butt ugly) and I see how you made the mistake, I really do but, uh...
[Gosh I just don't know how to break it to Frankie, this is so embarassing, can someone help me here]...
There fixed it for you.
Domino's Pizza NOID Commercial 1987 "The Dome of Quality"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j696bHtrYTM (0:29)
Dominos Pizza - Avoid the Noid ad from 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bri0SA7FTf4 (0:30)
No surprise here John, you can't buy your friends in Egypt as easily as you can buy them in D.C.
Kerry's motto on diplomacy is, I raise my tail and let the gas blow - sometimes things get more hot and steamy - but I stood in the room and pushed my agenda - so the shovel is in their court.
To be honest it's too easy for him to be a horse's ass. All he has to do is turn around.
Spaceballs - PIZZA THE HUT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33n-IS8a1S4 (1:33)
I'm embarassed and humiliated that a shitstick like this is the diplomacy face of my country. He's actually starting to make Hillary look good. OK, maybe not.
You still think it's your country?! Whatever gave you that idea?
FUCK no.
Lurch...Mister throw someone else's medals in sissy protest ....Mister Married Rich Skullfucker and Bones douche, is the male equivalent of Cuntalry...
Lower his doseage.
John Kerry came, saw and as usual made a horse ass out of himself.
an ass
Is it possible that the US (foreign policy dicks) actually agree that Egypt should send a strong message to Qatar, and thus that they are supportive of efforts to suppress Al Jazeera, and that Horsey just made that statement so the US could look weak and stupid, and the military regime in Egypt could pretend that they aren't cooperating with the US? Just a thought, as the US is supporting the junta, to the tune of $575M and a dozen helos... whereas talk is cheap, and journalists not under our control are enemies. Remember if all the markets are rigged, perhaps all our news is rigged too. Hmmmm
Fishhawk
Al Sisi is from a Jewish family. The muslim brotherhood wanted to send the Egyptian army to fight Syria which, just guessing did not go over too well with the army. Sisi stepped in with full endorsement of Israel to calm things down.
Conclusion:
Takeover of Al Jezera must be complete and it is entirely infiltrated and under control. Therefore it is a slap in the face. Remember a few years ago we were unhappy with Al Jezera?
To be fair, Al Jazeera journalists may deserve to be imprisoned if for no other reason that sub-par media content. And while we're at it, let's throw in an equal share of Fox and CNN journo's and the entire staff of MSNBC.
Al Jazeera (Arabic: ??????? al-?az?rah IPA: [æl d?æ?zi?r?], literally "The Island", abbreviating "The [Arabian] Peninsula"), also known as and (Jazeera Satellite Channel), is aDoha based broadcaster owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is funded by the House of Thani, the ruling family of Qatar.[2
Aljazeera had great coverage of the Mavi Mamara flotila attack and Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Aljazera's problems have to do with the fact thst they are a Qatari company. Qatar had fallen out of favor with anti-Syria coalition after the emir stepped down and his son took over. Qatar may put a gas pipe under the Persian Gulf to Iran. Qatar does not need the Syrian war.
So, in recent succesion, 2022 World Cup to take place in Qatar is thrown into doubt. USA imposes trade sactions related to immigrant labor safety. And now their reporters get 7 years in an Egyptian jail.
Probably taking some unseen shots behind the scenes as well.
Lurch's part in this is all theater.
back door deal, 1million bottles Hienze 57 Ketsup.
Military aid for the builders of the weapons mre likely.
Imagine you are at a party, and in the door walks somebody you have despised for years. The guy is arrogantly offensive and when he's not re-dousing himself in cologne, he's telling lie after lie about all of the girls he's been banging lately and how he's killing the market. Eyes dart around the room and everybody who's pained to witness this grandstanding piece of shit knows that every word coming out of his mouth are absolute lies.
It didn't have to be this way. He was the high school quarterback and had the world by the balls if he just kept his head on straight. But a little blow led to a symphony of destruction and somewhere between steroids and the combover was a life of miss-steps and best intentions. Now he's the backroom joke, the guy left off of the invitation list who keeps re-inviting himself in overt and humiliating drive-by's where nobody has the guts yet to tell him he's uninvited.
We all know him and feel sorry for him. His name- USA
Gee, too bad he does not support these same ideals for the US.
Fucking Lurch.
"Willllburrr!"
Mr. Kerry has a warped few of our republic and the Constitution. If he can't make sense of of those 2 things, it is no suprise he is worthless dealing with those that don't believe in the freedoms we (try) to have. He has no rudder or brain.
People still vote for the guy though?
Why the hell is Kerry doing all this in the first place? Does he really think being on camera so much -- while accomplishing so little -- is gonna help him get nominated for Prez in in 2016? BS. I just don't see what he gets out of it and frankly, I think he should get out of it. Let 0bama appoint a Republican (if he can find one willing) so in a couple of yahren the Dems can quietly blame everything on a Republican. At that point, 0 can take one for the team, confessing to "bad judgement in appointing a Republican", since he's not gonna be running for anything any more.
Fortunately, the Dems don't have the sense to do that. At least not until after November of his year.
US policy has fallen apart with Poland too. ' Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, has proven his “political realism” by comparing his country’s relations with the US to unrewarding oral sex, the Russian Foreign ministry commented'
He said something like the people running Polish foreign policy were going to get them in a war with Russia and/ or Germany and all they will get from the Americans (presumably when they call up DC for help with their situation) is a "thanks for the blowjob".
Congadulations to the truth talking Polish guy.
Give Kerry a apple,then throw his ass back into the boxing ring. We still have 8 rounds to go.
Horse face, horse's ass: it just makes sense.
What? He couldn't get the ISis sunni's to come together and sing Kum-by-ya with the shi'ites? Amazing.
He just needs his swift boat back and then everything will be fine.
Obummer will make it illegal to have a different opinion and all will be well.
Hitlery will finally stop being so damn poor all the time and the ME will be ok.
I said it three times! It must be true.
Re: ISIL.
You know what? The Brits learned this in the 19th Century, but they've forgotten it. The Yanks never learned it. However powerful you might be, militarily or economically, you *never* ride roughshed. Ever.
People are proud. However little they have to be proud about, they still are proud. You may have nukes, the courts, the boots on the ground, the press, the airforce, and the navy. Everything. They will still fight you. And nobody, however powerful, can fight everyone.
Britain was the hegemonic superpower in the 18th and 19th centuries. We were humbled by the dumb Dutch farmers of South Africa, just like America has been humbled by the dumb farmers of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But that wasn't the end of it. What destroyed Britain was the First World War which bankrupted it. Then the US saw its chance and has spent the next 100 years crushing the UK into the dirt. Now UK Prime Ministers are cock-sucking whores of successive Presidents (all except Obama who doesn't need his cock sucked by jaded prostitutes (he has the Polish Government to do that)).
The US isn't down, but it has its WWI experience to come -- probably with China, or perhaps Russia -- the 21st Century versions of the Kaiser's Germany. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme -- as ZH is fond of pointing out.
Welcome to the scrap heap. It takes decades to adjust from being the alpha male to being the also-ran. Ask any Englishman how that feels. God bless America. You'll need it.
The Phone Call
US Sec. John Kerry: Hey you... I’m seriously displeased here!
Minister Shukri: Come on John, don’t be like that. I give you twenty thousand Camels for those Apaches...
US Sec. John Kerry: Uuuummm.....? Okay I’ll take the cigarettes....
Boy, that Stacy Keibler sure is popular...
Shocked and "Ahh; duh." sounds more like it. ...IF You believe this poorly acted farce.
Why does it seem no one takes a US politicians word seriously anymore?
At least he won the Triple Clown.
What monstrosities and grotesque smiegels we parade around. We probably got a bearded lady laying around, some new current whore of Babylon this week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbLqOXmJ04&sns=em
Sammy shooking had a beautific smile on his face after the meeting.
Kurry was wiping the jizz from his chin after performing a masterful BJ.
One bright spot, it wasnt the camel cunt hilarious clit that was over there