Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills)

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

The subject of a federal investigation

Above is Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Hillary's Reaction To Losing West Virginia To Bernie" about Hillary's huge loss in West Virginia.

Yes, another primary that she's lost to Bernie Sanders.

Even though she's the 'front runner.'

How many primaries do you have to lose before they strip you of "front runner" status?

Hillary's a crook and a liar.

Julia Boccango (CBS NEWS) reports:

FBI Director James Comey told a group of reporters Wednesday that the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server is more than a "security inquiry," a phrase the Democratic presidential front-runner and her campaign use instead of "investigation" to describe the FBI's action in the case.
"I don't even know what that means," Comey said. "I'm not familiar with the term security inquiry."
Just this past Sunday, in "an interview with John Dickerson on Face the Nation," Hillary Clinton used this characterization, saying "I don't think anything inappropriate was done," she said. "And so I have to let them [the FBI] decide how to resolve their security inquiry.

So we were right and Kevin Drum, Bob Somerby and Media Matters were wrong?

Of course, we have C.I. on our side.

She's a better resource than any paper.

She can make a few calls and find out what's what.

Which is why we have repeatedly pointed out that Hillary is the subject of an FBI investigation.

That's what she is and if you ever doubted us, there's your proof.

Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, the deadliest bombings in Iraq for 2016 so far take place today, Nancy A. Youssef uses the term "ethnic cleansing," War Hawk Down in West Virginia as Hillary Clinton loses another primary to Bernie Sanders, and much more.

Bombings slammed Iraq today. Jane Onyanga-Omara (USA TODAY) reports, "Three different car bombings in Baghdad Wednesday killed at least 93 people and wounded upwards of 165 in one of the deadliest days in Iraq this year, according to media reports." Jomana Karadsheh, Joshua Berlinger and Ashley Fantz (CNN) explain, "The Sunni terror group ISIS says it's behind a series of attacks in Iraq's capital Wednesday [. . .]" AL MADA notes they're the deadliest bombings in Iraq so far this year. GULF DIGITAL NEWS includes the reactions of some Iraqis:

"The state is in a conflict over (government positions) and the people are the victims," said a man named Abu Ali. "The politicians are behind the explosion."

Abu Muntadhar echoed his anger. "The state is responsible for the bombings that hit civilians," the local resident said. The politicians "should all get out".

Ban Ki-Moon is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. His Special Representative for Iraq, Jan Kubis, stated:

These are cowardly terrorist attacks on civilians who have done nothing but going about their normal daily lives. Such acts of terrorist violence are certainly against all the principles of decency and humanity, and as such must be strongly condemned. I call on the authorities to do their utmost to quickly bring the perpetrators to justice, and express my deepest condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and wish the injured a speedy recovery.

Human Rights Watch's Joe Stork declared, "Once again ISIS has carried out a devastating attack designed to inflict maximum death and suffering on ordinary Iraqis. The presence of some militia – even if true – cannot possibly justify this latest ISIS atrocity." NATIONAL IRAQI NEWS AGENCY adds that Iraqiya leader Ayad Allawi condemned the bombings-- including the one in Baquba -- as terrorist actions.

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The bombings?

First, BBC News notes, "A car bomb at a crowded Baghdad market has killed at least 64 people, officials say, in one of the worst recent attacks in the Iraqi capital." Sinan Salaheddin (AP) describes the scene, "The street was stained red with blood in many places and the facades of several buildings were heavily damaged. Smoke billowed from ground-level stores which had been gutted out by the explosion."

Mustafa Al-Khaqani ‏@Khaqani_M 5 hours ago

More images from Sadr City bombings in Baghdad. Conflicting reports on number of martyrs. #Iraq

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The bombing took place in the Sadr City section of Baghad -- also known as "slum" by some outlets. It's where Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr's Baghdad followers live -- in squalor. XINHUA reports that, in addition to the 64 dead, there are at least 87 people who have been left injured. The already alarming death toll could rise further depending on how severe some of the injuries are.

‏@Khaqani_M

Iraqis gather to donate blood for the wounded following the wave of deadly bombings that swept across Baghdad. #Iraq 

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ITV adds, "The second exploded at the entrance to Baghdad's Kadhimiya district, killing at least 15."

Third, Kareem Raheem and Ahmed Rasheed (REUTERS) report, "Another bomb went off at a checkpoint on a commercial thoroughfare in a predominantly Sunni district of western Baghdad, killing eight and wounding 20."

‏@Khaqani_M

Locals light candles at the scene of the bombing that took place in Sadr City, Baghdad. #Iraq 

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‏@jenanmoussa

The amount of daily killings in #Iraq is staggering. Sadly only few care, majority can't be bothered.  

CBS NEWS notes the climate the bombing took place in, "But CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata reported the tension that erupted in the Green Zone had been building for months; simmering anger at the government over charges of corruption and criticism that they appear unable to stop ISIS from carrying out terror attacks in the capital city and elsewhere." Jomana Karadsheh, Joshua Berlinger and Ashley Fantz (CNN) add, "Experts have said that a security vacuum has opened in Iraq amid the political turmoil the nation has been facing lately. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi struggles to firm up a government capable of battling ISIS and, at the same time, continue to address problems related to Iraq's long-standing economic and political wounds from years of war. "

NATIONAL IRAQI NEWS AGENCY reports MP Samira al-Moussawi has called for Parliament to deliver a vote of no confidence on Haider al-Abadi. Should such a vote take place and the Parliament withdrew confidence, it would trigger immediate elections. She noted his failures including his failure to resolve the political issues and she declared he was now part of the political crisis in Iraq. Samira herself is a petroleum engineer and has Chaired Parliament's Women, Children and Families' Committee in Parliament.

She is not the first MP to call for Haider to step down. Mustafa Saadoun (Al-Monitor) noted:

On March 2, Hanan al-Fatlawi, member of parliament (MP) and head of the Irada block -- and independent block that has no governmental position and only one parliamentary seat -- demanded that Abadi, her former colleague in the State of Law coalition, should either resign from his position as head of the government or declare a state of emergency and ask the parliament to vote on it.
She noted in a press statement, "Abadi came up with the ministerial change to distract the Iraqi street and waste time until the end of the current election round. The current ministers in the Iraqi government are not working seriously, and the ministries are almost paralyzed because of the anticipated ministerial change sought by Abadi."

Earlier this week, Baquba was the site of a bombing. RUDAW reported, "A car bomb in the town of Baquba in Diyala province killed 12 and wounded 40 others on Monday evening."

ALL IRAQ NEWS notes Haider met with his security heads to discuss today's bombings.

Nancy A. Youssef (DAILY BEAST) reports:

The carnage not only shocked the capital, but also raised questions about whether Iraqi security forces are capable of reclaiming Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, which has been occupied for almost two years by the self-proclaimed Islamic State.

One obvious question is how Iraqi security forces can retake and secure Mosul if they cannot protect Baghdad from three suicide bombings in a matter of hours. But the picture is more complicated, and indeed, more problematic even than that.

The bombings targeted Shia neighborhoods in what appears to be part of the continuing ISIS effort to provoke a frenzy of ethnic cleansing similar to that of a decade ago. As one U.S. official immersed in the anti-ISIS war puts it, “Sunnis see ISIS as their protection—their wall against Shia revenge.”

Do me a favor and read that excerpt again.

Okay?

Notice it?

"Ethnic cleansing"?

We called it that in real time here.

Nancy didn't.

Writing for MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, she wasn't allowed use the term. It's seldom noted -- except by us -- but Nancy, writing for KNIGHT RIDDER on the last day it existed (MCCLATCHY bought it out and slapped their name on it), broke the story that the US military was, in fact, keeping a count of the number of Iraqis killed -- something the White House had denied.

At KNIGHT RIDDER, she could break news and write truthfully.

MCCLATCHY was for more restrictive.

Hopefully, DAILY BEAST will continue to be less restrictive.

It was ethnic cleansing.

She's wrong about it "restarting."

It's already in Iraq and we've named it here.

The Shi'ite militias are targeting the Sunni civilians -- not the Islamic State, but Sunni civilians.

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Iraqi Sunni civilian burned , tortured and killed by shia militias in #IRAQ  #warcrimes  oh my God

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#IRAQ شمرية العراق ‏@moonnor27 14 hours ago

shia militias crimes نداء استغاثة من الفلوجة اجساد العوائل السنيه بدئت تنهار جوعا الحشد الشيعي يمنع عنهم الغذاء

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Shia militias crimes عاجل مليشات الشيعه تحرق قرية نوفل السنيه بديالى وتختطف ابنائهم والعوائل تستغيث اين الاعلام

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On Mosul, Martin Chulov (GUARDIAN) reports:

For a few days early last month, the offensive looked like it already might be under way. But that soon changed when the Iraqis, trained by US forces, were quickly ousted from al-Nasr, the first town they had seized. There were about 25 more small towns and villages, all occupied by Isis, between them and Mosul. And 60 miles to go.
Behind the Iraqis, the Kurdish peshmerga remained dug into positions near the city of Makhmour that had marked the frontline since not long after Mosul was seized in June 2014. The war had been theirs until the national army arrived. The new partnership is not going well.
On both sides, there is a belief that what happens on the road to Mosul will not only define the course of the war but also shape the future of Iraq. And, despite the high stakes, planning for how to take things from here is increasingly clouded by suspicion and enmity.

There were other bombs in Iraq today -- including the ones dropped by US war planes. The US Defense Dept issued the following:

Strikes in Iraq
Fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted nine strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:

-- Near Baghdadi, two strikes struck an ISIL beddown location and destroyed an ISIL mortar position.

-- Near Rutbah, a strike produced inconclusive results.

-- Near Fallujah, two strikes destroyed an ISIL vehicle bomb, two ISIL tunnel systems and an ISIL weapons cache.

-- Near Kisik, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL assembly area.

-- Near Mosul, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL vehicle.

-- Near Sinjar, a strike destroyed an ISIL bulldozer.

-- Near Tal Afar, a strike destroyed an ISIL excavator.

Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target. Ground-based artillery fired in counterfire or in fire support to maneuver roles is not classified as a strike.

Staying with deadly US actions, noted War Hawk Hillary Clinton is running for president. Unable to run on her record -- it doesn't exist other than support for bombing countries -- she's running on her husband's record and her own gender.

It doesn't always work.

Like yesterday when West Virginia held their primary.

Hillary ended up losing yet another primary to Senator Bernie Sanders.

‏@BernieSanders

Not only do we get a lot of the Democratic votes, we get a lot of the Independent votes. Our campaign is best suited to beat Donald Trump.

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‏@BernieSanders

Thank you to the people of West Virginia for the tremendous victory they gave us today.

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martin chulov

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

And that about says it all

This is from Peter Phillips (COUNTERPUNCH):

The presidential primaries offer a single choice for both Democrats and Republicans to vote for empire and permanent war. This year’s entertainment spectacle, what we call democratic elections, is a particularly gross circus of meaninglessness, misinformation, sound bites, and lies. Both parties are in support in the continuation of the US/NATO global empire of permanent war and the protection of the capital of the global 1%. Even Bernie Sanders calls for drone strikes and continued war on Isis and other evil terrorists.

And that pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it?

Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Monday, May 9, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, the Iraq Inquiry gets a publication date, a Hillary whore self-disgraces in public, the selling of the Iran deal demonstrates nothing has changed since the selling of the Iraq War, and much more.

Today, the US Defense Dept announced:

Strikes in Iraq
Attack, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 16 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:

-- Near Baghdadi, a strike destroyed an ISIL bunker.

-- Near Albu Hayat, a strike destroyed an ISIL weapons cache and an ISIL fuel cache.

-- Near Beiji, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit.

-- Near Fallujah, five strikes struck five separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed four ISIL fighting positions, three ISIL weapons caches, 20 ISIL rockets, six ISIL rocket rails, an ISIL recoilless rifle, an ISIL vehicle bomb, an ISIL artillery piece, an ISIL vehicle, an ISIL staging area and an ISIL front-end loader.

-- Near Habbaniyah, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit.

-- Near Hit, a strike destroyed an ISIL fighting position.

-- Near Kisik, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL assembly area and an ISIL tunnel.

-- Near Mosul, three strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit, destroying four ISIL rockets, six ISIL rocket rails and an ISIL vehicle and suppressing an ISIL mortar position.

-- Near Sultan Abdallah, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL assembly area and an ISIL mortar position.

Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target. Ground-based artillery fired in counterfire or in fire support to maneuver roles is not classified as a strike.

Those bombings took place as Liz Sly (WASHINGTON POST) reports:

In an attempt to ramp up the tempo of the war, the U.S. military is escalating its engagement, dispatching an additional 450 Special Operations forces and other troops to Syria and Iraq, deploying hundreds of Marines close to the front lines in Iraq and bringing Apache attack helicopters and B-52s into service for the air campaign.
The extra resources are an acknowledgment, U.S. officials say, that the war can’t be won without a greater level of American involvement.

The Iraq War has not ended.

Whores started it and whores continue it.

And whores actually make the news for their whoring today.

First up, too old to be a himbo, John Aravosis. By his own account, he failed as a blogger. He bid it farewell in a post most noted for the use of "I" and "me" -- in fact it may have set a record for the number of times those two words appeared in a blog post. He was off now, he insisted, for a new road, a new career with the United Nations.

He wasn't successful there either.

So now he's returned to blogging.

And he's whoring for Hillary because he's just that trashy.

And to whore for Hillary who voted for the Iraq War in 2002 and publicly championed it for years afterwards and only came out against the surge -- as former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed in DUTY -- because she thought it would look good for her politically, to help vanish Hillary's huge Iraq problem, John Aravosis decided to Tweet that he didn't even remember where he stood in 2003 on the Iraq War.

As Ben Norton (SALON) details, that whorish lie was greeted with at tremendous backlash.

An array of Twitter users criticized the blogger for allegedly forgetting what his position was on the critical historical moment.

“I joke that pundits have suffered brain damage,” comedian @Trillburne said, but Aravosis should “see a doctor.”
Trillburne followed up writing a “timeline of Proper and Serious opinions about the Iraq War,” a satirical chronology depicting how the commentariat whitewashed the U.S.’s illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign country, destroying Iraq’s government, leading to the deaths of at least 1 million people, destabilizing the Middle East and creating a sectarian civil war that gave rise to extremist groups like al-Qaeda and eventually ISIS.

The dirty whore got caught without his clothes and the whole world laughs.

AL BAWABA reports on it and notes:

Aravosis's Twitter followers immediately pounced.

"You were for it. If you were sentient & against it, you'd never forget," wrote one.

"Not to be rude, but, serious question: are you in the wrong business?" wrote another, which apparently angered Aravosis.

The whole world is laughing at him.

That's what happens when you get caught whoring with a politician.

He is now a disgrace.

And he brought it on himself.

Another issue of whoring?

Ben Rhodes may be the Deputy National Security Advisor but no one ever outranks him when it comes to ego, that's always been his problem.

And he's shot off his mouth again, specifically about selling the Iran deal to the American public.

We created an echo chamber. They [the press] were saying things that validated what we had given them to say. [. . .] In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this. We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.

He made the remarks to David Samules (THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE -- a supplement in the Sunday paper -- a more long winded version of PARADE).

Kathleen Hennessey (AP) explains, "The White House on Monday worked to contain the damage caused by one of President Barack Obama’s closest aides, who, in a seemingly candid, behind-the-curtain magazine story, ripped the Washington press corps, boasted of creating an 'echo chamber' of supporters to sell the Iran nuclear deal and appeared to dismiss long-time foreign policy hands, including Hillary Clinton, as the Blob."

Thomas E. Ricks (FOREIGN POLICY) writes a stinging rebuke to Rhodes which includes:

Rhodes and others around Obama keep on talking about doing all this novel thinking, playing from a new playbook, bucking the establishment thinking. But if that is the case, why have they given so much foreign policy power to two career hacks who never have had an original thought? I mean, of course, Joe Biden and John Kerry. I guess the answer can only be that those two are puppets, and (as in Biden’s case) are given losing propositions like Iraq to handle.

Fact check: Obama’s hasn’t been an original foreign policy as much as it has been a politicized foreign policy. And this Rhodes guy reminds me of the Kennedy smart guys who helped get us into the Vietnam War. Does he know how awful he sounds? Kind of like McGeorge Bundy meets Lee Atwater.

Senator John McCain also weighed in:

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today released the following statement on the President Obama’s approach to foreign policy as described in a New York Times Magazine piece last week:
“Last week a New York Times Magazine profile of the aspiring fiction writer serving as one of President Obama’s closest aides provided a troubling glimpse of the White House spin machine that has put sustaining 'the narrative' above advancing the national interest. The truth of that narrative is evidently of secondary importance, as the article exposed how the White House manipulated and, in some cases, manufactured facts to sell the reckless Iran nuclear deal to the American people as a prelude to large-scale disengagement from the Middle East.
“Worst of all, the article revealed the stubborn arrogance of a President that refuses to allow reality to interfere with his pre-conceived notions about the world. For seven years, President Obama has been guided by a cheap fatalism about America’s role in the world shrouded in realism. Even as the perils of indecision and inaction grow clearer by the day – Russian and Chinese adventurism, the rise of ISIL, terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States, and hundreds of thousands dead in Syria – the President remains unmoved, his narrative unchanged.

“President Obama has taken great pains to set himself apart from his predecessor. He has succeeded in at least one respect by failing to find the courage to challenge his own assumptions, admit mistakes, and chart a better course. The nation is paying a heavy price for this prideful exercise in legacy-making, but at least the narrative will be consistent.”

Daniel W. Drezner rushes to insist it isn't true -- look at the polling -- Americans increased in opposition to the deal!!! And yet the issue did not have traction!

Drezner writes:

Opponents of the Iran deal massively outspent and out-advertised proponents. Furthermore, contra Samuels, this blitz had an effect; in polling, the Pew Research Center found that there was an appreciable increase in opposition to the deal over the summer. But Pew also found something else: despite the blizzard of advertising and media coverage surrounding the Iran deal, respondents stated that they knew less about the contours of the deal two months after the debate started. Why? Because the issue “had not resonated widely with the public.”

No, that's not what they said and your really a stupid idiot to think you could get away with that lie.

The American people did not know less about it because it "has not resonated:"

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Sept. 3-7 among 1,004 adults, finds that the contentious debate over the Iran agreement has not resonated widely with the public. In fact, the share saying they have heard either a lot or a little about the agreement has declined from 79% in July to 69% in the new survey. The share saying they have heard “nothing at all” about it has increased nine percentage points, from 21% to 30%.

It did not resonate because the details were not explored.

The "has not resonated" goes to what THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE article exposes: the selling of the deal.

The deal was not properly vetted by the press.

Go back to the archives and you'll see we did not take part in the echo chamber and I even note that friends at State are attempting to get me to come out for it.

I did not come out for it. I did not come out against it. We did not pimp the deal here and anytime any member of Congress had criticism of it and we were notified we ran their critique in full.

I say at one point that I don't have the time to become an expert on the deal.

And I didn't.

Nor did the American public, nor did the White House set out to inform the public.

They sold it as emotional.

They pressured people to go along -- again, I received the same pressure. 'Don't you want peace? Don't you want to stand with history?'

That's how they pressured people. (No, I'm fine standing all alone, thank you very much.)

Then they sold it similarly with all the usual screaming mimis insisting that you went along with it or you were for war.

And back before Hillary was the front runner, no one wanted to be for war.

Barack and company lied to sell the deal. They appealed to emotion.

That's why the polling reflected little knowledge of the deal.

Erik Wemple (WASHINGTON POST) offers his balanced take on the whole thing here.

Iraq War supporter and cheerleader, megaphone for the powerful and eternal drama queen Jeffery Goldberg turns the entire issue into a referendum on himself and votes himself innocent. (Even a jury would, at best, only find him not guilty.)

The issue is an indictment of the press -- Okay, Jeffery, everyone but you -- and the way they bow to an administration.

Iraq was sold to the public not because the US press is Republican or loved Bully Boy Bush or worshiped Hillary Clinton but because the US press caters to the powerful. They cater to Barack because he's in the Oval Office. They pivot from one extreme to the next based on whose in power. And they loathe questioning those in power. They prefer to parrot the official line and, should it backfire, take cover in the 'we were all wrong' argument.

Nothing has changed since 2002. (And it predates the Iraq War but our focus is Iraq.)

On Iraq, Hollie McKay (FOX NEWS) reports:

The government of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north, eager to counter the devastating effects of Islamic State’s religious and ethnic cleansing, is making clear to Jews that they have a home in the ancient Babylonian land where many of their ancestors once lived peacefully. They are even urging thousands of Kurdish Jews living in Israel to come and make their homes in a land that has not always been so hospitable to them.

“Jews would be surprised to find that they are freer and safer here than in certain European capitals,” Sherzad Omer Mamsani, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s first-ever Jewish representative, told FoxNews.com.
On Friday, the KRG officially marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a first-ever ceremony in its capital, Erbil. The occasion came against the somber backdrop of past suffering as well as the current, U.S.-recognized genocide against Christians, Yazidis and other minorities taking place just 50 miles away in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul.

US Secretary of State John Kerry looks like an idiot -- and it's not just the botox.

Back in March, Kerry groupie Elise Labot joined with Tal Kopan to jot the following for CNN:

Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the United States has determined that ISIS' action against the Yazidis and other minority groups in Iraq and Syria constitutes genocide.

"My purpose here today is to assert in my judgment, (ISIS) is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control including Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims," he said, during a news conference at the State Department.

As we've noted for over a year now, the Yazidis are being helped by a right-wing pro-war US p.r. firm that's tasked with selling more war. And Johnny thought he could do the same.

But he forgot he was from Boston.

He forgot his roots.

The Yazidis will not get sympathy from the Christian community in the US. They may get an "oh my" but no one's going to yell for the country to go further into war for the Yazidis.

Christians believe in and worship Jesus Christ -- "Christian" comes from Christ.

The Yazidis worship a fallen angel that is seen -- even in Iraq -- to be the devil, Lucifer.

These are not hidden facts.

You were never going to play this community up successfully to US Christians.

Know who you're selling to.

And all the foolish and elderly fop John Kerry has done is remind the world how the White House has bent over backwards for the Yazidis.

They suffered in 2014.

Iraqi Christians?

They've suffered throughout the Iraq War, been targeted throughout the Iraq War.

Katie Mansfield (UK EXPRESS) speaks with Father Douglas Bazi:

The priest, who was based in Baghdad, was speaking to a church in California when he said: “To be Christian in Iraq, it’s an impossible mission.
“But even so, I’m not actually surprised when they attack my people. I’m surprised how my people are still existing.”
Father Bazi was captured and tortured for nine days by al-Qaeda on his way home from a mass in Iraq in 2006.
He said: “They destroyed my car, they blew up my church on front of me. I got shot by AK-47 in my leg. The bullet is still in my leg. And I had been kidnapped for nine days.

Dale Gavlak (CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICES) explains:

Iraq's Christian population numbered about 1.4 million during the rule of Saddam Hussein, but figures now hover between 260,000 and 300,000 as political instability and persecution by Islamic State militants have drastically reduced their numbers. Other religious minorities, such as the Yezidis, also have been targets of vicious persecution by the extremists.
Half of the remaining Christians in Iraq struggle to remain true to their faith or flee to other countries due to dangers the Islamic State poses, including forced conversion to Islam. Every year, the Christian population decreases by 60,000-100,000, according to the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, in a report issued late last year.

Again, this persecution pre-dates the creation of the Islamic State.

And the US government -- under Bully Boy Bush, under Barack -- refused to call it genocide -- and it clearly was genocide.

The Iraqi Christians have been driven from their homes. Easily half a million are dead or out of the country since 2003.

And foppish John wants you to lament the genocide of the Yazidis . . . oh, and he says it's bad what was done to the Iraqi Christians as well.

I don't think he realizes how unpopular he's become with his former constituents.

Moving over to England, supposedly the Iraq Inquiry will finally publish their report on July 6th.

dr nick ‏@ManMaun 22 minutes ago

Chilcot .... 5 years and what will we get? An unacceptable delay, waste of taxpayer money and the usual establishment whitewash. #WMD #Iraq

‏@ahmedversi

Judge Chilcot's #Iraq Inquiry's 2.6 million-word page report cover's #UK's involvement in 2003 Iraq war  http://tinyurl.com/j7rezdr 

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And we'll close with this Tweet:

‏@KRG_USA

Our deepest condolences to family& friends of Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV, who gave everything fighting IS savagery

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Please note, the KRG government did what John Kerry would not -- note the death of a US service member in Iraq.

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