Blasphemy! Kerry Slips Up and Criticizes Israel

If you have to five one thing to the babbling ass who is the sitting Secretary of State of the USA! USA! USA! he is certainly is consistent. During John "Skull and Bones" Kerry's five show whirlwind tour of the Sunday morning propaganda circuit to gin up support behind a coordinated campaign to frame Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on Thursday the man with the ongoing and incurable case of diarrhea of the mouth slipped up in the worst possible place - Fox News.

Kerry has inflamed pro-Israel sentiment by daring to drop the proverbial turd in the punch bowl that has at least temporarily spoiled the fun in murdering women and children in Gaza like shooting fish in a barrel and will now have to take a break from his lying about Putin's alleged culpability in the jetliner catastrophe to engage in damage control - ass-kissing and prostrating himself before Bibi Netanyahu, the Israel amen chorus in the US Congress and the media - over his unspeakable blasphemy.

Fox of course pounced on the off-camera gaffe as the propaganda arm of the Republican party would be inclined to do, particularly in an election cycle and when there is a chance to even further enrage the chicken fried motherfuckers and their bastardized version of Christianity to goose-step to the polls come November. It is yet another opportunity to smear the Obama regime as being anti-Semitic, insufficiently loyal to God's chosen colony of racist, pogrom conducting, mass-murdering lunatics that is the festering wart on the ass of all of humanity under it's current extremist leadership. Mondoweiss has the clip of Kerry's off-camera goof as well as the reaction of Fox Sunday's host Chris Wallace pouncing on it like a dog devouring a piece of meat that is dropped from the dinner table.

Netanyahu Racks Up the Body Count of Dead Children While Israelis Cheer

The Guardian offers this account of hurricane John's mortal sin in a story entitled "Unguarded comments suggest Kerry frustration at civiliantoll in Gaza" from which I excerpt:

The secretary of state, John Kerry, on Sunday appeared to criticise Israel’s claims about the targeted scope of its attacks on Gaza, as a open microphone caught him talking to an aide ahead of a TV interview.
 “It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation, it’s a hell of a pinpoint operation,” Kerry, who was appearing on Fox News Sunday as part of a tour of all five main US talkshows, said to an aide on the phone, in a frustrated tone.
 It was not the first time Kerry's private criticisms of Israeli policy have emerged in public. In April, the Daily Beast reported that he had warned a closed door meeting of world leaders that Israel could become an “apartheid state” if a two-state solution was not found and that if peace talks failed there could be a resumption of Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens.
 Israel has launched air strikes, artillery fire and a ground operation in Gaza. According to health officials in the Palestinian territory, 340 people have been killed, nearly 2,400 wounded and tens of thousands displaced in 12 days of fighting.
 Ahead of his interview with Fox News Sunday, Kerry said: “We’ve got to get over there. Thank you, John. I think, John, we ought to go tonight. I think it’s crazy to be sitting around.”
 In his interview on CNN's State of the Union, Kerry said President Barack Obama would ask him to go to the Middle East soon to aid in efforts to secure a ceasefire.
 Earlier, speaking on CNN, the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said Israel’s response to rocket attacks from Gaza had been “very measured and trying to be as pinpointed as we can”.
 “What choice do we have?” Netanyahu said. “We have to protect ourselves. We try to target the rocketeers, we do. And all civilian casualties are not intended by us but actually intended by Hamas who want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because somebody said they use telegenically dead Palestinians for the cause. They want the more dead the better.”
 The Fox host Chris Wallace confronted Kerry about his comments and asked if he was implying that the Israeli government had gone too far in its Gaza operations. Kerry said Israel had a right to defend itself but stood by his comments.

Obama has to be pulling out what remains of his rapidly graying hair over his top diplomat's latest fuck-up and especially now right when he is ready to avenge the infliction of injury upon his massive ego inflicted by Putin by pinning the blame for MH17 on him. Now he is going to have to deal with the bleating of the pigs about his secret Muslim agenda and underlying hate for Jews - hell, the Republicans may even drag out old tapes of Reverend Wright to run during the mid-terms against Democrats. Obama really should demand Kerry's resignation - not for the little morsel of truth that accidentally slipped out today but for his ongoing incompetence in managing foreign policy which over the last year has been as fucked up as it was at just about any time during the Bushreich with the exception of the Abu Ghraib Prison torture pictures getting out to the public. Then Obama should do the right thing and resign himself but only after issuing one last executive order cutting off ALL US military and economic aid to Israel.

Lynch Mob Rule: Hailey Idaho Surrenders to the Terrorists

This is a pretty dismal day to live in America or more accurately to live in The Homeland. The America that we knew has been gone for quite some time now although enough remains, at least in cosmetic terms to pretend that one day it may come back – it is never coming back. The vicious, sleazy and most of all cowardly attacks on Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the man just released from five years as a prisoner of the Taliban in Afghanistan are evidence that any vestiges of a free and fair country are now gone. The haters have always been there but this disgusting display of venom is a place where even a cynic like myself didn’t think that they would go so completely anti-American, even Naziesque that it will leave a coating of toxic scum upon all of us long after Bergdahl’s name has faded from the media and the never ending carnival of perversion that are the professional political assassins have found newly vulnerable prey to ambush and rip apart.

The collapse of our political system has been evident for quite some time now – any country that manages to not only elect but to re-elect loathsome charlatans such as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama is one that is thoroughly fucked. Throw in a corrupt gaggle of incompetents, perverts, clowns, criminals, lobbyists and religious fanatics as the US Congress is comprised of and top it off with the cherry on the shit cake of a Supreme Court that is a rubber stamp on corporate looting, torturing people, mass warrantless surveillance and the freedom of the press and you have a land destined for the scrapheap of history. The problem is that the journey there is going to be long, painful and if the past five days of 24/7 “Two Minutes Hate” piled upon Bergdahl and his family it will be one that must be navigated through a gauntlet of state worshipping fascist filth who will make Hitler’s brownshirts look like pikers when the shit hits the fan and they are the ones who are brought in as muscle to protect the corrupt system.

The nadir of our post September 11, 2001 descent into the abyss of fear, loathing and financial and moral bankruptcy is that the berserkers – as instigated by the Neocons and their fully weaponized media have intimidated Sgt. Bergdahl’s home Idaho hometown, Hailey to cancel his welcome home celebration after threats of violence became too much of a danger to the citizenry. The small mountain town, with a population of around 8,000 faced the very real possibility of being descended upon by hordes of revved up to the max right-wing goons who would not have been satisfied until Hailey were burned to the ground. While I can’t blame the municipality for calling off the event – the safety of residents is first and foremost – it sets a very dangerous precedent in that this time the terrorists won and when a wild animal catches the scent of blood it will keep on running rogue and killing until it has been stopped by the use of equivalent force which is not going to happen. The thugs are far too valuable to the oligarchy to reign them in now, especially with the potential for social collapse if the US-EU-NATO Axis of Aggression continue to push for a war with Russia.

But I digress.

The predatory attacks on Bergdahl, a proxy for the hated Obama has been building to a crescendo all week with absolutely no resistance from any national leadership figures, religious leaders or rational voices within the system. They have been content to continue to pour more gasoline on the fire to see just how much that it can burn. This is sheer vengeance and the real reasons behind this horrific bursting of a festering, pus-filled wart on the ass of America is explained pretty well by Antiwar.com’s always excellent Justin Raimondo whose recent column entitled “Hating on Bowe Bergdahl” exposes the arsonists behind this latest and greatest pyre of hate. I excerpt the following:

Embittered by double defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, driven out of both countries with their tails between their legs, the War Party is looking for scapegoats, and has found one in the least likely place – the ranks of the US Army. That’s right: the "support the troops" contingent is now intent on re-torturing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a 26-year-old Idaho native held captive by the Taliban for five horrific years.

A concerted campaign, stage-managed by "Republican strategists" – i.e. Richard Grenell, former Romney foreign policy consultant fired for being too gay – is pitting some of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s former comrades against the just-released prisoner-of-war. The former claim Bergdahl is a "traitor" who deserted his post: a 2012 Rolling Stone piece by Michael Hastings implies as much. Yet we really don’t know what happened: in a Taliban propaganda video Bergdahl says he was caught after he "lagged behind" on patrol. And this US government cable posted by WikiLeaks contains intercepted Taliban communications hailing his capture and claiming it occurred in the course of an attack on Bergdahl’s base while he was using a latrine.

We don’t yet know the circumstances of his capture, and so these calls for prosecution are premature, to say the least. Not that legal niceties like evidence matter to the baying wolves of the neocon media: they want vengeance for the war they lost and were widely blamed for. Having lost on the battlefield in Afghanistan, the War Party is seeking a victory on the home front.

The persecution of Bowe Bergdahl is just the first chapter in the neocons’ ongoing revisionist history of the Afghan war. And we know the theme of this work of fiction from the very first act: it’s a tired replay of the old "we-were-stabbed-in-the-back" myth promulgated by failed Napoleons in every country. In the American version, they said – and still say – the same thing about the Vietnam war – we were prevented from winning by squeamish liberals and anti-American war protesters, who secretly (and not so secretly) supported the Commie cause.

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What we do know is that Bergdahl was radically disenchanted with the US military and the war itself: we also know he witnessed at least one specific incident in which a young Afghan girl was run over – deliberately? – by US military personnel. What other atrocities did Bergdahl witness – and was, perhaps, forced to take part in? If these are the facts, then his seemingly crazy decision to set off into the Afghan countryside begins to make at least a modicum of (moral) sense.

In this context, it’s hard to imagine the administration prosecuting him for desertion: does the US State Department really want Bergdahl to testify how US soldiers in an armored truck laughed as they ran down an Afghan girl? As for the Fox News crowd, this could backfire on the War Party, big-time – remember that old adage about fools rushing in? Well, it wouldn’t be the first time, now would it?

They’ll rush in anyway, because this is the kind of thing they enjoy. The Fox News bleach blondes and radio screamers are practically frothing at the mouth: they point suspiciously at the prominence of Robert Bergdahl’s beard, sure signs he’s a "Muslim convert" and Taliban sympathizer! That’s the level of demagoguery we’re seeing around this issue – and, I warn you, it’s going to get worse.

As usual, the tone-deaf Republicans – eagerly seizing on this as their signature foreign policy Benghazi-substitute issue – are their own worst enemies. While the burning question of "who lost Afghanistan?" may be a hot topic of conversation on their busy little blogs, out in the real world the country is sick unto death of hearing about Afghanistan.

The very last thing the American people want to see is some poor kid who got snookered into fighting that worthless war get pilloried for the sins of US policymakers. Yet what we are about to witness, I’m afraid, is the disgusting spectacle of an Idaho farm boy crucified by a gaggle of partisan Pharisees.

And it is the usual anti-Muslim, anti-American hatemongers like the insipid shreiker Pamela Geller as well as the bottom-feeding scum at Front Page Magazine, the Stormfront for neocons that along with FOX News are leading the pack in working to incite pogroms in the USA. Some Republicans who are principled actually hailed the freeing of Sergeant Bergdahl until the Khmer Rouge enforcers of the Red Elephant Team forced them to purge any such sentiment or face exile or worse. Pol Pot Palin - who thrives on being the high priestess of dumbed-down American cultural populism has predictably crawled out from under her rock to whore herself out to the hate machine and the Canadian born Ted Cruz, the textbook example of the sleazy political opportunist is pounding the pulpit over new legislation barring any further transfers from the American death camp at Guantanamo Bay. The haters eat it up too and the very real prospect that they are finally getting close to the peak of their long, hard fought struggle up the American political Mount Everest now that they have found their Führer has them in a supremely orgasmic state.

In the ongoing vilification of Sergeant Bergdahl and his family we can see all that America has been transformed into by travelers, ideologues, war profiteers and the swine who serve them as they eat away at this once great country like a column of ravenous termites. America has failed the moral test of modern times of simply preventing the spread of fascism - which on the eve of the 7oth anniversary of D-Day begs the question why so much blood has been sacrificed in vain only to allow what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers defeated in World War II to take root in The Homeland? That will be a question that will keep historians busy for decades.

As for the right-wing lynch mobs -  when it all comes down to it and if Bowe Bergdahl did walk off his post that only makes him a deserter which in the hierarchy of "patriotism" towers above the chickenhawks who never had the guts to serve in the first place.