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Mr. Kerry, You Are Such A Liar

It is nothing new that politicians are mostly liars and full of crap….but recently the king liar award goes to our Sec of State, John Kerry.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes interviewed John Kerry about the Saudis war on Yemen.  He mentioned the recent belated decision to block the transfer of cluster bombs to the Saudis, and pressed Kerry on why the U.S. was arming the Saudis. Kerry’s answer is notable for its repetition of a shamelessly pro-Saudi line:

Saudi Arabia was literally threatened by virtue of the Houthi placing missiles along the Saudi border aimed at Saudi Arabia, and there were cross-border incidents taking place in a way that threatened Saudi Arabia. And they together with other countries and ourselves felt that it was important…and so there was a reason for a coalition to respond to that.

It is very important to understand that what Kerry said here isn’t true. This never was a war of self-defense, and it compounds the U.S. disgrace of aiding the Saudis’ war to claim that it was. The Saudi-led coalition intervened specifically to reinstall the deposed president and drive the Houthis out of the capital, and it did so shortly after Hadi had fled to Riyadh. The goals of the intervention were always far more ambitious and sweeping than what Kerry says here, and it is unfortunate that he wasn’t challenged on this point. The issue fourteen months ago was not that the Saudis were actually threatened by the Houthis, but that their preferred ruler had been driven out of the country and they wanted him to be reimposed. The Saudis and their allies chose to make Yemen’s conflict their own, and this administration chose to help them do that. The U.S. is still helping them batter and starve Yemen today.

With all his tap dancing all he really did was give the Saudis a pass……

John Kerry this week waved off concerns about U.S.-supported Saudi-coalition airstrikes in Yemen that have indiscriminately bombed civilians and rescuers, and instead blamed the Shiite Houthi rebels for the bulk of the civilian casualties.

“There have been a lot of civilian casualties, and clearly, civilian casualties are a concern,” Kerry told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “I think the Saudis have expressed in the last weeks their desire to make certain that they’re acting responsibly, and not endangering civilians.”

Source: John Kerry Gives Saudis a Big Pass on Indiscriminate Bombing of Civilians in Yemen

The typical dance of a yes man bureaucrat…in other words…he was lying through his capped teeth.

But then what would you expect from a DC insider given the reins of the State Department?

17 thoughts on “Mr. Kerry, You Are Such A Liar”

  1. Kerry has eaten too much Apple Pie…it’s coming out of every orifice.

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      2. Kerry was part of the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta…my old stomping ground…did I know him…no but I did know of Chuck Hagel we were there at the same time in the same division….a good guy…never made it above E-5 a NCO…my kind of guy.

  4. I liked Kerry a lot better when he was a young “traitor”.

    But even if every word he said was true…and it isn’t….so what? Why does America have to help this utterly worthless piece of shit Monarchy (that attacked America on 9/11) in any way, shape, or form?? Unlike Israelistan, it’s not a (quasi-)democracy with human rights (for some). There’s just no valid excuse for helping them, or even condoning their actions.

    If anything, this is an “invasion of Kuwait” moment.

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      1. Yeah, how many people is Kerry sending to die in an unwinnable war? Or whatever his famous (now highly ironic) Vietnam quote was.

      2. That is why I liked Hagel…at least he had reservations about using troops indiscriminately.

      2. He would make a great portrait…the same reason as ego freaks have their teeth capped…it is about appearance not substance.

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