Warmongers Caterwauling Over Iran Deal

In the aftermath of Saturday’s landmark deal over restricting Iran’s nuclear program in return for an easing of crushing economic sanctions there has predictably much weeping and gnashing of teeth amongst the crusading Neocon war-mongers. Senators and other congressional swine of dubious loyalty were already calling for even more sanctions before Saturday and the accord reached in Geneva will only reinforce their recalcitrance in acting against the national interest and working desperately to sabotage the deal. Right-wing Israeli strongman Benjamin Netanyahu naturally was bitching the loudest, the deal according to Bibi, a man who is rapidly becoming a cartoon figure  is a “historic mistake” although in the humble opinion of this writer nowhere near the historic mistakes that old Harry Truman made in 1947-48 that started this Middle East madness with the creation of the National Security State or the 1953 CIA overthrow of Iranian president Mohammad Mossadegh that effectively set off the chain of events leading up to the 1979 Islamic revolution to overthrow the U.S. friendly torturing Shah of Iran. Not to mention the "historic mistake" of the electorate in his own country that despite a progressive and rational citizenry continues to vote against their own self interests by not replacing his regime at the ballot box before he completely destroys the relationship with the U.S. due to his paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies. The state-corporate media is bereft of any outside perspective or historical reference other than the flogged to death WW II metaphors were the head of state of any target on the list is dubbed the "new Hitler", any efforts at diplomacy are "Munich" again and those who seek to settle problems through negotiation rather than bombs are "Neville Chamberlain". It is all hogwash and were television lobotomized Americans better informed as a populace it would called out as such.

While extremists in the Israeli government as well as their buddies in the House of Saud were as outraged as their domestic operatives at the deal, especially after the serpent that is Prince Bander (aka Bandar Bush) had coaxed the socialist French into torpedoing the negotiations two weeks ago one aspect had to really rub salt into the wound. It has been reported that the U.S. had been engaged in secret talks since March which would come to nicely serve to circumvent attempts by the usual suspects to scuttle it all and just dial up the airstrikes on Tehran. It was almost as though the old war criminal Henry Kissinger was back in the saddle with his Realpolitick. The revelation of the secret meetings is setting off shockwaves and the charlatans and opportunists are working themselves into a feeding frenzy. Florida Senator Marco Rubio has slithered out from under his rock again and Israeli lickspittle Mark Kirk will be the likely point men for the coming congressional frontal assault that will be used to rouse the rabble and renew the at least temporary derailing of the American war machine. As it is with all of the gutless chickenhawks, they are always eager to send the sons and daughters of others off to die in the asinine wars of their own creation.

There is going to be hell to pay though because Bibi just got punked. In his best interests I would hope that he has been put under suicide watch for the next several days.  The hydra will very quickly reconfigure and no expense will be spared as the warmongers begin to mobilize their media plants, embedded fifth columnists and religious zealot shock troops to besiege fence sitters in D.C. and go all in so that Jesus can come back when the Middle East erupts in flames. There will be much of the same fear-mongering to pander to the "low information voters" (God I love that term) as 2014 is an election year and there is no better sucker bait to harvest the low-hanging fruit than nationalist demagoguery.  To use a WW II analogy of my own it is as  Hermann Göring once said - "the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country". Getting this very basic concept down is a certain recipe for electoral success here in The Homeland.

Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry is basking in the limelight after his successful weekend that is when he wasn't out buying expensive gourmet chocolates for his ketchup heiress wife which resulted in a security staff lock down of the candy shop. An employee of the famous Auer Chocolatier spoke of Kerry that he was “very nice” and spoke “perfect French.”.  The entire thing did not go over well with Senator Lindsey "thank God for France"  Graham who despite the preempting of this week's Meet the Press for a NASCAR race wasted no time in getting together a gaggle of corporate-state media for his inevitable denouncing of the deal and calling for more sanctions. Joining the Palmetto State princess in parroting Neocon talking points was of course Senator John McCain and NRA terrorist supporter Peter King, a trifecta of seasoned media whores always on call to the lazy, career suckups that have so polluted the national press. I expect that by the time that the grease is congealing on the turkey gravy later this week that the aforementioned blood sucking war freaks will be joined by hundreds of others seeking to wave the bloody flag engage in their self-serving blather to get a leg up on next year's mid-terms. The ghoulish thug John Bolton has even emerged from the skeleton's closet of the Bush-Cheney administration to bitch and moan about the "abject surrender" to Iran and to once again psychotically rattle the saber as he is so accustomed to do as  a veteran shill for the war machine.

I do have to give one thing to Graham and McCain in that they both actually served in the military in comparison to the cowardly douchebags who are their colleagues and associates who will never cease to send Americans marching into a foreign meat grinder to score cheap political points or remain relevant on the talk show circuit. The propaganda mills are revving up right now and the lies will soon be as thick as a proverbial biblical plague of locusts as the warmongers desperately work to salvage their feverish wet dream of reducing Iran to ashes while leaving it's citizens with nothing but their eyes to cry with.

With Economy Still in the Toilet there is Always Money for Another War

As the WW I era writer Randolph Bourne once summed it up "war is the health of the state" and the drums were beating over the week yet another one. This will be the granddaddy of them all, the long-promoted but oft-preempted attack on Iran, the country that represents the crown jewel for the Neocons.  With the French sabotage of the past weekend's Iranian talks about the hotly disputed nuclear program delivering yet another humiliation to the bumbling, bloviating fool that is Secretary of State John Kerry there is now an opening into which every effort will be poured on pushing an on the ropes, on the verge of bankruptcy country into yet another ruinous war. This one will be the big one, if there was a good possibility that the aborted Syrian attack of August would have turned into WW III it is a dead certainty that attacking Iran, one of China's top trade partners will do exactly that.

Keep in mind that China holds a good deal of U.S. debt and has the ability to pretty much destroy American dominance as well as the military machine by calling it in. If this happens there is nothing that either Helicopter Ben Bernanke nor Janet Yellen will be able to do to stop it, they can run the printing presses at the Marriner S. Eccles Building until the melt but the era of the dollar will be over. Hell, it's not like we aren't on the way there anyway because even the Fed's schemes have their eventual end point but living in a tent city and foraging for scraps to eat is one thing, doing it while basking in the nuclear fallout of a war to end all wars is another.

Kerry, a lifelong member of Yale's infamous Skull and Bones society was riding high last weekend as he arrived in Geneva to along with the rest of the P5+1 gang put the finishing touches on the deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program and begin lifting economic sanctions was knee capped as the French contingent led by Laurent Fabius after what was reported to be a Saudi bribe from Prince Bandar bin Sultan aka Bandar Bush led to the scuttling of the talks.  The buffoonish Kerry, his latest humiliation sealed his place as the most inept head of the State Department in recent memory, Kerry went into full retreat mode just like the guy who parlayed his opposition to the Vietnam War into a political career who went from antiwar icon to pusher of more wars.  The neocons and right-wing Israeli warmongers then poured it on, using what was announced to be a "delay" in talks to mount a relentless propaganda campaign that would mobilize the craven and bought on the cheap U.S. Congress, specifically the House which is chock a block with the type of lunatics who want a Middle Eastern conflagration so Jesus can come back. On the Sunday morning circuit while South Carolina's Lindsey Graham was pushing for even more crippling sanctions on Iran, at one point lisping "thank God for France" Kerry was being mocked by establishment lickspittle David Gregory.  Kerry at one point in his life dared to utter the blasphemy that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the lone nut that was able to circumvent the tight security of a presidential protection detail and deliver a shot to the head to President John F. Kennedy that crack snipers would have difficulty pulling off and then escaping before being cornered like a rat and eventually murdered by a mob connected loon before he could be tried. There are certain things in this land that just cannot be questioned if you are to remain a political figure of any influence.

But the talks were torpedoed and the march to war is once again on and with Barry in desperation mode after his historic debacle of an abomination of a health care reform program designed solely to keep the insurance parasites supplied with new bodies to milk for profit the man just may finally be ready to go along with it as a distraction. If if wasn't for Putin the lying bastards Obama and Kerry be into the third month of bombings of Damascus and Raytheon stock would be trading at an all time high but they just couldn't close the deal with the American sheeple. Now with the formerly vilified French "cheese eating surrender monkeys" being hailed by the neocons as though they were the second coming of Sir Winston himself, Netanyahu's mustering of his American shocktroops and Kerry's flip-flopping this could finally be the time when the stars are in alignment for what will be the mass suicide of the western world. Obama is clearly screwed now thanks to his own incompetence, the vilified community organizer who has been turned into a fake devil by on the payroll  right-wing stooges seeking to compare him to the great leftist manipulator  Saul Alinsky, a man who Barry isn't fit to carry his coffee cup.  Ironically Alinsky's tactics have been adopted by the right who in their typical asinine, self centered way pay the man no credit. Old Saul must be rolling over in his grave over Obama, he mocked such phonies as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin as not being capable of organizing a lunch counter.

But I digress...

Obama's fraudulence has now brought us to a very dangerous point, with the House of representatives smelling the scent of blood as they haven't since Bubba Clinton made the critical error of blowing his wad onto Monica Lewinsky's  infamous blue dress the tribunals are looming. With Darrell Issa aka Congressman Grand Theft Auto convening his stupid little "kangaroo courts" over everything but the NSA Stasi's unconstitutional spying on Americans the subpoenas are already being printed for the Obama impeachment hearings. The furor of partisan vendettas and settling political scores  is now coalescing with the House Armageddon caucus, take for example the deranged freak that is Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois who is already shilling for Netanyahu's war as are many others in the corrupted and contemptible legislature where 30 pieces of silver buys loyalty to a country other than the one what they swore an oath to.  Justin Raimondo of the FBI targeted Antiwar.com pegged it in his latest column Showdown at the Geneva Corral:

Does Senator Mark Kirk know whom he is supposed to be representing?

One wonders. After an administration briefing to the Senate Banking Committee, held to persuade members to hold off on new Iran sanctions, Kirk had this to say:

"’It was fairly anti-Israeli. I was supposed to disbelieve everything the Israelis had just told me, and I think the Israelis probably have a pretty good intelligence service.’ He said the Israelis had told him that the ‘total changes proposed set back the program by 24 days.’ A Senate aide familiar with the meeting said that ‘every time anybody would say anything about ‘what would the Israelis say,’ they’d get cut off and Kerry would say, ‘You have to ignore what they’re telling you, stop listening to the Israelis on this. They had no details,’ the aide said. ‘They had no ability to verify anything, to describe anything, to answer basic questions.’"

Why is "what would the Israelis say" the first thing out of Sen. Kirk’s mouth? He is supposed to represent the state of Illinois in the US Senate – not the state of Israel. But you’d never know it from his public pronouncements on this issue. Yes, the Israelis do indeed "have a pretty good intelligence service," one devoted to relentlessly pursuing Israeli interests. Those interests are not always aligned with American policy objectives – indeed, these days the two are rather frequently in conflict. And it is telling that Sen. Kirk doesn’t recognize this, or, if he does, chooses to listen to the Israelis rather than what our own intelligence services have been telling us regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

The official National Intelligence Estimate states "with high confidence" Tehran gave up its weapons program way back in 2003. Yet Sen. Kirk chooses to take the Israeli side in an increasingly public and acrimonious dispute between the government of the United States and a foreign entity with a long history of crying wolf over the alleged imminence of Iranian nukes.

Now that Obama's balls are in a sling and the vultures are circling I would imagine that the coming days will bring a new willingness and an increased level of bellicosity towards the regime in Tehran.  It won't save him from the lynch mob that has been restful for the past five years but it could prove to doom us all once the Commander in Chief is able to channel his inane football metaphors from "fumbling" on Obamacare to a "Hail Mary" in the Middle East and lending U.S. backing to the doomsday strike on Iran.

The Chinese curse of "may you live in interesting times" is a bit of hysterical irony coming home to roost in The Homeland.