It's all about who's doing who

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FADED CELEBRITY BARRY O GOT HIS IRAN DEAL AND ALL IT TOOK WAS TWO CLOSET CASES.

HARRY REID, SO RECENTLY ROUGHED UP BY ROUGH TRADE, CAME ON BOARD WHEN BARRY O PROMISED "ALL THE MALE HOOKERS YOU CAN EAT."

AFTER PLYING REID WITH NUBILE BOIS, THAT JUST LEFT CLOSET CASE BARBARA MIKUISKI.

TAMMY BALDWIN IS THE FIRST OPENLY LESBIAN IN THE U.S. SENATE AND BABS IS (HOPEFULLY) THE LAST CLOSETED ONE SERVING.

THEY DIDN'T PLY MIKUISKI WITH FEMALE HOOKERS, THEY JUST THREATENED HER WITH OUTING.

IT'S A SCARY WORLD OUTSIDE THAT CLOSET AND BABS DOESN'T PLAN ON EXPLORING IT.



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The Canadian Press is attempting to actively smear the country's New Democratic Party.  Why?

Because unlike so many -- especially so many in the US -- the NDP can see beyond the bluster and war mania.

CP gets this part right:

The New Democrats would immediately halt Canada's bombing campaign against Islamic State militants and withdraw special forces trainers who have been instructing Kurdish peshmerga fighters, leader Tom Mulcair said Thursday.
The NDP would not wait for the parliamentary mandate — Canada is currently committed to the U.S.-led coalition until the end of March — to expire, he emphasized.
"Canada would put an end to our participation in the combat mission in Iraq and in Syria immediately. We've been clear on that since Day 1."


From there, the CP wants to ridicule and mock the NDP and offer this or that statement by this or that war monger.

Reality -- one that CodeStink and David Swanson and others can't explore because they focus on every damn thing except Iraq -- there is no plan.

US President Barack Obama has bombed Iraq for over a year now and begged other countries -- such as Canada -- to participate as well.

That's the so-called plan.

It's not accomplished one damn thing.

And the ridiculous Medea Benjamin and David Swanson, so busy pretending to Stop The Next War Now!, ignore the plight of the Iraqi people and the ongoing destruction of their country.

They spend their time whoring for a deal the White House wants with Iran.

John Kerry.

John Kerry voted for the war on Iraq and the war on Afghanistan.

He turned against the Vietnam War only after the bulk of Americans did.

John Kerry wants the Iran deal because John Kerry wants war.

Have we forgotten how his sister Peggy treated Cindy Sheehan?

Apparently, we have and we've forgotten that there's not been a war John Kerry hasn't wanted.

The proposed deal is very likely little more than the final negotiation for war with Iran.

Bully Boy Bush wanted war with Iran.

He couldn't get it.

It was too extreme, too horrifying.

Too many wars.

World revulsion to the wars was too high.

But a treaty put in place, one then violated -- or said to be violated -- makes war a lot easier to go down because it's no longer blood thirsty War Hawks screaming for war, it's a document, you understand -- a clearly outlined agreement and, golly, the chance was offered but now the penalties kick in.

There is nothing in a crooked agreement with an imperialist government for so-called members of the peace movement to support.

But that's what they spend their time on -- the David Swansons and the Medea Benjamins.


They don't spend their time helping the Iraqi people.

The NDP is being attacked for noting the obvious, there is no peace from bombing.

The NDP would cut the combat mission and instead focusing on the root causes of the problem -- which was what Barack said, June 19, 2014, he was going to focus on.

David Swanson and Medea Benjamin have never held Barack accountable for his failure to work on a political solution to the crises in Iraq.

But don't worry, they've enlisted in whoring for him.

The NDP's statements and actions are met with attacks from the Canadian Press precisely because the NDP can see beyond the bluster and offer a way out.

Barack's plan or 'plan' is not working.

So the 'answer' is to give it more time?

To let it continue and continue until shortly after the next President of the United States is sworn in?

Iraq is seeing a record exodus right now.

Iraq which, by 2007, had set the record for the largest refugee crisis in the Middle East since 1947.

And now the country is seeing such destruction that even more Iraqis are fleeing -- those who've stuck it out through the ongoing chaos since 2003.

Iraq Times estimates 400,000 Iraqis have fled the country in just the last two months.

And where's the US peace movement?

Applauding 'reforms' by Haider al-Abadi that aren't reforms.

Al Mada reports activists gathered in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Wednesday to protest the lack of any real action to address their demands.

Activist Jassim Hilfi outlines the demands as follows: reform the political system, address the corruption and prosecute the corrupt and third address the lack of public services.  Hilfi notes that Haider's announced 'reforms' do little to nothing and don't address the demands of the protesters but these actions of Haider's are, yes, unconstitutional.

They're unconstitutional actions which are consolidating power within the office of the prime minister.  Of course the White House supports that.  They demanded loser Nouri al-Maliki get a second term in 2010 because they wanted a strong-man (despot) in charge of Iraq.



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Fake Ass Bernie Sanders, the Chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee when the story that the VA was keeping two sets of books on appointments -- one (the false one) showing they were meeting the deadlines and the hidden one (the real one) showing they weren't.  How did Bernie respond to this scandal -- which resulted in the death of veterans waiting for care?

By insisting at a hearing as the story broke that the scandal not be talked about because acupuncture was a much more important topic than the VA lying and veterans dying.

He then shamelessly whored for the VA.  So bad did he whore for them that he was called out on air during a CNN interview.

That's fake ass Bernie for you.

The US senator who couldn't call out then-VA Secretary Eric Shinseki -- despite Shinseki's non-stop failures.

Today, Fake and Shake Sanders took the floor of the Senate to denounce those opposed to the Iran deal US President Barack Obama is forcing down the throats of Americans.

Those who have spoken out against the Iran agreement, including many in this chamber, and those who have made every effort to thwart the diplomatic process, are many of the same people who spoke out forcefully and irresponsible about the need to go to war with Iraq, one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of our country.


First off, it's English, it's basic, learn it if you're going to be a public speaker.  "The same people who spoke out forcefully and irresponsible about . . ."  That would be forcefully and irresponsibly -- those are the words you use, even if you're an elderly idiot suffering from old man stink.

Second, go to war with Iraq?

With?

What opponent of the Iraq War says "with" Iraq?

Check the archives, we say war "on" Iraq.

We say that often.

Only the imperialists lie and say "with."

But then, that is what Bernie is.  He's no peace activist.  He's not really called out war and has frequently voted for it.

What's smelling up the room is wafting off Bernie and it's not just his old man stink, it's also his hypocrisy.

People can be opposed to the deal and not be supporting war.

Equally true, the deal doesn't mean no war.

That lie's been pimped to shut down discussion.

The Yalta Conference was diplomatic and going to solve everything, right?

Then how the hell did the Cold War follow that?

The 1919 Paris Peace Conference, which resulted in the League of Nations, was going to bring about peace as well, right?

Peace didn't come, did it?

And the League of Nations is a laughable relic of the past.

The reality is that leaders of major countries bring war.

They don't bring peace.

The people may bring peace.

Usually, it's the people who struggle for peace after the war is declared by the leaders -- who lie, all of them lie, I.F. Stone had it right and when your wet dream Barack is out of office, suddenly, so many leftists will remember that -- too late -- but always the fool, always the whore for some lying politician.

The Iran deal does not promise peace.

It promises war as the history of any US treaty demonstrates going back to the various treaties with the Native Americans.

You have to be a real two-bit whore for Barack, one who can't keep your hands off out of your pants in public, to pimp the lie that some new contract -- with conditions for Iran (there's no conditions for the US, idiots, read the damn thing) will result in peace.

There's penalizations for Iran, there's this for Iran, there's that for Iran.

Most likely, the contract will be used by those lying politicians to start a war on Iran -- or "with" to use liar Bernie Sanders' term.

Barack has lied -- and some idiots bought it instead of calling him out for fear mongering -- that if the deal/treaty does not pass, there will be war.

He fear mongers and he lies just like Bully Boy Bush.

Jim Webb, who is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, was against the Iraq War and is against the Iran deal.

It can happen.

Many Democrats in Congress who were for the Iraq War are now supporting the deal.

Hillary Clinton, also running for the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination, most closely resembles the TV character Fonzie from Happy Days -- for those who've forgotten, Fonzie struggle to say he was wrong just like Hillary.

Hillary voted for war on Iraq in 2002.  Today, she favors the deal.

All that really demonstrates is that the spineless do whatever they're pressured to do.

There are some good things in the deal but clearly not enough.

Were the deal solid, the President of the United States would not repeatedly insult his opponents on the deal with immature remarks so embarrassing that the White House spokesperson had to walk them back.

Were the deal solid enough, the myth that opponents are just neocons who supported the Iraq War would not still be being used as a 'logical' argument for the deal.


The deal's never been fought on its own merits because the whores in Congress and the whores in punditry can't argue for the deal.

We've not take a stand for or against the deal.

My job is not to whore for the White House -- regardless of what idiot being elevated to the rank of modern day Jesus temporarily occupies the White House.

Any statement by a member of Congress opposing the deal that's been mailed to the public e-mail account has been posted at this site.

Some have been thoughtful and shown real exploration.

None of the response has been the same.

David Brock is the cancer on the left.


In the 90s, as he lied and bullied, we knew (on the left) his actions were wrong.

But we elevated the little whore because he told us the right was mean (after he could no longer advance further on the right because he was a closeted gay man whose hags -- Ann Coulter, etc -- would only tolerate so much from him).

And then we decided the David Brock playbook was the way to go.

And we've lost whatever ethics we had in the process.

In February 2003, I began speaking out against the Iraq War publicly (it would start in March).

Any of us who did can tell you the problem was that we were shut out of the debate, that points we made were ignored, that the 'argument' for the illegal war was shut-up-and-go-along-with-what-we-say, etc.

The Iraq War deserved debate and exploration before it started.

That didn't take place.

War Hawks (chiefly on the right but also on the center-left) and corporations saw to it that the discussion would be shut down.

Today, the Iran deal proponents act in the same manner and think that's a good thing.

Apparently, in a democracy, we don't need debate when you want your side to win.

Thing is, that's not a democratic principle.



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Starting with the sadly laughable US State Dept where, today, spokesperson John Kirby moderated a press briefing today.





QUESTION: But it seems bizarre that you find Iran’s role in Iraq as kind of positive. I have heard Secretary Kerry saying that whoever kills ISIS is kind of – is positive. And then on the other side, Iran and Assad are kind of the same – different sides of the same coin in --




MR KIRBY: What we’ve said about Iran’s involvement in Iraq is – and nothing’s changed about that, that – and we understand they have concerns, they got a border there, and certainly we’re not unmindful of the fact that they provide some measure of support to some of the Shia militia inside Iraq. But our message has been the same to Iran as it is to every country in the region, and that is: If you’re going to get involved in Iraq, you need to do it through the Government of Iraq and – officially – and don’t do anything that’s going to further inflame or arise sectarian tensions.


Really?

John Kirby said what?

"If you’re going to get involved in Iraq, you need to do it through the Government of Iraq."


Hmm.

No, they didn't say that to "every country in the region."

Sorry, John, you're wrong.

No one said that, for example, to Turkey.


Let's drop back to the July 28th snapshot for an extended memory jog:


The Daily Sabah notes that Turkish F-16 war planes continue bombing northern Iraq.

In related news, the US State Dept noted today, "There is NO Daily Press Briefing."

Of course not.

No way could they send John Kirby back out to face the press after yesterday's embarrassing performance.

For those who missed it, we noted this in Monday's snapshot, Kirby prattled on and on about the rights of the Turkish government.


Yes, it was embarrassing but, as we noted, what about the rights of the Iraqi government?

Kirby created a 'right' where Turkey can bomb any country in the world.

He just didn't recognize Iraq's sovereignty.


Not everyone plays it so stupid.

Haider Al-Abadi ‏@HaiderAlAbadi 14h14 hours ago

1. Council of Ministers considers Turkish airstrikes on Iraqi territory a dangerous escalation and a violation of Iraq's sovereignty (1/3)

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Haider Al-Abadi ‏@HaiderAlAbadi 14h14 hours ago

The Council stressed commitment not to allow any attack on Turkey from Iraqi territory and called on Turkey to respect good relations (2/3)

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Haider Al-Abadi ‏@HaiderAlAbadi 14h14 hours ago

Council of Ministers also called on Turkey to increase water discharge to Tigris and Euphrates in accordance with bilateral agreements (3/3)

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Haider al-Abadi is the Prime Minister of Iraq.

In the US government's rush to embrace the bombings Turkey is carrying out, they forgot (a) that Iraq's supposed to be an ally and (b) that these bombings had previously outraged Iraqis.


It's a reality we were noting in Saturday's snapshot:

The Turkish government -- probably like many others -- is using the pretext of the Islamic State to attack Iraq.
In doing so, it is violating Iraq's sovereignty yet again.
This didn't work out well before, for any who paid attention.
The Turkish warplanes, announcements swore, killed 'terrorists.'  Reality, they bombed farming communities and killed civilians.
This didn't endear them to the Iraqi people.
There was outrage, naturally.



The US government is now scrambling to craft a 'position' on the strikes -- hoping to approve of Turkey's bombings while still pretending to respect Iraq's sovereignty.

And that's why there was no press briefing today.

But there's a good chance that, had the State Dept held a press briefing today, the press would have ignored the issue of Iraq's sovereignty.


The press ignored it in Monday's briefing.

And while we've raised the issue every day (here for Sunday and you can also read Third's "Editorial: Turkey attacks Iraq"), the western press has avoided it.


Now that the prime minister of Iraq has weighed in publicly, the western press may have to cover this aspect of the story.

Or maybe not.

It was maybe not.

Listen to me, don't walk that street
There's always an end to it
Come and be free, you know who I am
We're just living people

We won't have a thing
So we got nothing to lose
We can all be free
Maybe not with words
Maybe not with a look
But with your mind
-- "Maybe Not," written by Chan Marshall (also known as Cat Power), first appears on Cat's You Are Free.



And today John Kirby was insisting that, "If you’re going to get involved in Iraq, you need to do it through the Government of Iraq" -- but that was never the policy for Turkey.


The US government gladly ignored Turkey violating Iraq's sovereignty and gladly ignored it again today.



AFP  reports,  "Turkish forces crossed into northern Iraq to pursue Kurdish militants Tuesday after the deadliest rebel attacks in years left dozens dead as the decades long conflict escalated. Thirteen Turkish police were killed Tuesday in a new attack by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants as violence in the east threatened to spiral out of control."

Turkey's allowed to repeatedly violate Iraq's sovereignty and even when Iraq's leaders -- including the prime minister object -- the US government just looks the other way.

If Mexico was bombing parts of California or Texas and launching ground raids, you better believe this same US government would be screaming its head off about national sovereignty being violated.

There's also the harm that these raids can cause in the battle against the Islamic State.  AP observes, "The operations however, threaten to complicate the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq. The PKK, which maintains bases in northern Iraq, has fought against the extremist militants in Iraq alongside Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces which are allied with the United States."


But State Dept spokesperson John Kirby just pretends nothing is happening.





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Hannah Allam, the joke of all US reporters covering Iraq returns to the topic.

For those late to the public embarrassment, Hannah not only writes for McClatchy but operates a little-read Twitter feed.  Yet she grandstands publicly, for years now, about Iraqi refugees at various events -- how they need help and attention.

But she never writes or Tweets about the topic.

She's become a useless joke.

At this point, the human punchline returns to the topic of Iraq to scribble:


 Iraq’s ability to fight Islamic State extremists who control roughly a third of the country is hampered by a financial crisis that’s left the Baghdad government operating “hand to mouth,” Iraqi Ambassador Lukman Faily warned this week.
The inability to pay salaries on time to the soldiers and militiamen fighting the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has hurt morale and hindered progress in operations to retake key hubs that were captured by the jihadists, Faily said in an interview Thursday. And belt-tightening measures such as consolidating government ministries threaten to exacerbate ethnic and sectarian tensions by upsetting the delicate power-sharing quota system that’s been in place since the U.S.-led occupation authority took charge following the invasion of 2003.
“This goes back to not making your support conditional,” he added, referring to Iraqi officials’ frustration with the Obama administration’s reluctance to bail them out last year unless Baghdad first made reforms to address the corruption and ingrained sectarianism that softened the ground for the extremist takeover of Mosul in the north and most of Anbar province in the west.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/article34194438.html#storylink=cpy

Is that what it goes back to?

Oh, Faily thinks the whole world is as stupid as he is -- or Hannah is.

She then talks to Iraq Oil Report where, no surprise, it's Nouri's fault.

Unlike Iraq Oil Report, we've slammed Nouri al-Maliki since the summer of 2006.  We were never taken in by the thug.  Iraq Oil Report had to wait until he was out of power to really slam him (2014).

They're cowards.  The world is full of cowards.

We still slam Nouri for his actions today.

For his actions.

Nouri hasn't been prime minister since August of last year.  Haider al-Abadi is prime minister.


If there are budget woes now, that's on Haider.

I loathe Nouri al-Maliki.  He's a thug and belongs in prison.

I'm comfortable slamming him for anything he's done.

But today's budget woes are not Nouri's problems.

Past corruption is Nouri's problem.

Not today's corruption.

Here's some basic reality that was too much for Hannah, the  World Bank ranks 185 countries based on GDP (Gross Domestic Product).  Iraq comes in at 75 while Madagascar is ranked 173.


The most recent numbers for Madagascar's GDP is $22 billion in US dollars.


That would be a country closer to struggling.

Iraq?

Saif Hameed (Reuters) reported last January, "Iraq's parliament approved a budget worth 119 trillion Iraqi dinars ($105 billion) on Thursday, made possible by improved ties between Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region, but contrained by plunging global oil prices."

The price of oil fluctuates, that's nothing new.  As this week wound down, it was $46.75 per barrel at one point.  As Hameed noted in his January report, the budget approved was based on a $50 per barrel price.

The price per barrel only dropped below $50 at the end of July.  It had been above $50 per barrel since the start of the year with it being nearly $70 mid-April.  Barring any economic disaster, oil will average a price per barrel of greater than $50 for the year.

In the meantime, the CIA estimates 37 million Iraqis in Iraq.

In what world can a $105 billion yearly budget not guarantee the protection and security of 37 million people?

That's the question that idiots and liars like Hannah have ignored year after year.

The hard questions, the ones journalists are supposed to ask, have gone ignored under Nouri al-Maliki.

Now that he's out, Iraq Oil Report can criticize him to Hannah but, here's the thing, now that he's out of power, he's no longer responsible for the ongoing corruption.

McClatchy Newspapers did little to nothing for Iraq.

When they bought Knight-Ridder, they thought they could buy Knight-Ridder's pre-Iraq War reporting image.

But only idiots (hey, Lambert) fell for it.

McClatchy existed before the Iraq War started.

It did not expose the lies leading to war.  That was Knight-Ridder.

Buying Knight-Ridder and then absorbing it in the summer of 2006 did not make McClatchy a truth teller in 2002 and 2003 when it, like the New York Times and so many other outlets, just parroted what Bully Boy Bush, Dick Cheney and others said.

In all her time 'reporting' on Iraq for McClatchy, Hannah never wrote one story that mattered.

That tells you a great deal about Hannah and about McClatchy.

Today, she writes an idiotic piece about Iraq struggling with finances but fails to tell you their 2015 budget, fails to tell you the population -- we're talking about 37 million people and a 105 billion dollar budget.


There's no extreme math skills needed to see this problem.

But apparently, Hannah lacks whatever skills are necessary to point out this basic problem.

Those skills might include honesty because she's never come off as very honest to me.

When you have a corrupt government and US reporters fail to report on the corruption, I'm failing to understand how a reporter like Hannah can be characterized as anything but corrupt herself.


All Iraq News reports, "The Supreme Religious Authority called for pursuing the top corrupted officials as a basic step towards reforms."  Press TV adds:

"One of the essential steps for reform is to hunt the big heads among the corrupt and hold them accountable, to retrieve all the stolen money," Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said in a sermon delivered by his representative Ayatollah Ahmad al-Safi in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala on Friday.

He added people "have long suffered from corruption" and they want "this mission to be implemented without procrastination and delay".

His call would have more power if amplified by the world press.  Instead, 'reporters' like Hannah Allem provide cover for the corruption and the corrupt.


What the Hannahs of the world do 'report' is the statements of people like Haider claiming that they will do this or that.


Report it as fact and with no follow up.

Leave it to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to point out what the press refuses: Iraqi officials making statements to the media are not enough, actual actions are needed.



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