John Kerry tries to resuscitate Iran deal

| May 5, 2018

According to the Boston Globe, John Kerry is occupied doing what he does best – conduct US foreign policy discussion when he has no authority to do so. He did it in 1971 with the communist North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Talks. Now he’s trying to resuscitate the dying Iran deal, the crowning foreign policy achievement of the Obama Administration.

With the Iran deal facing its gravest threat since it was signed in 2015, Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to preserve it, using his deep lists of contacts gleaned during his time as the top US diplomat to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside. President Trump, who has consistently criticized the pact and campaigned in 2016 on scuttling it, faces a May 12 deadline to decide whether to continue abiding by its terms.

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“It is unusual for a former secretary of state to engage in foreign policy like this, as an actual diplomat and quasi-negotiator,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution. “Of course, former secretaries of state often remain quite engaged with foreign leaders, as they should, but it’s rarely so issue-specific, especially when they have just left office.”

Kerry declined to be interviewed for this story. The quiet lobbying campaign — by him and others — is being conducted below the radar because he and his allies believe a high-profile defense of the deal by prominent Democrats would only backfire and provoke Trump, making it more likely the president would pull the United States out of the deal.

While it may be unusual for former secretaries of state, it’s certainly not unusual for John Kerry. He stuck his nose in the Syria business while the Bush Administration had their own policy dealing with Assad, he did the same meddling in Afghanistan with the Karzai cartel.

The Trump Administration is prepared to reimpose sanctions on Iran if they are found to be in violation of the agreement, and Kerry would prefer that we just ignore the fact that Iran hasn’t abandoned their nuclear weapons program, just to keep his agreement alive and preserve the appearance of success, disregarding the national security implications.

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Ret_25X

This is the true gift that keeps on giving. When a Republican SECSTATE retires they go to work at a think tank and you rarely hear from them again. When Democrat is voted out, retires, or their term ends, they think they retain the job and keep right on doing anything they can to make America the USSR they all miss so dearly.

After all, without Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc, who will murder the world for them?

Ret_25X

In other news, NYT, Kennedy Center, and Cuba Propaganda ministry team up to present “Artes de Cuba”.

We all knew that the NYT is a serial communist apologist platform and that the Kennedy Center is nothing more than a Clinton Foundation without any scrutiny, but what is new is that they no longer feel they have to hide the fact that they just regurgitate the propaganda without even proofing it.

sj

Kerry – Fonda. Same Same GI.

26limabeans

Fonda is a cunt, Kerry is a pussy.
Other than that yeah, same same sj.

rgr1480

Welll ….. she’s better looking than Lurch. Loved her in Cat Ballou — but that was before she got political.

I’d probably try to watch Barbarella … but just can’t get past her politics.

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E-6 type, 1 ea

Why would they continue to trying to build their own when we gave them enough money to buy plenty of them from cash-starved North Korea?

AW1Ed

Plenty of collusion (the real kind) between Iran and the Hermit Kingdom concerning nukes. I rather suspect it will be a topic in the upcoming US-North Korea summit.

sbalm

Rumor is it he is going to pull out all stops and have James Taylor sing “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight.”

“Do me wrong, do me right
Tell me lies but hold me tight…”

AW1Ed

Because nothing says steely resolve like sending a stank-ass hippy drug addict, with his flying machines in pieces on the ground.

Major league loser.

Ex-PH2

Does this mean that sKerry still thinks he has some kind of authority?

Maybe it’s time he was given a well-deserved and brutal set-down and his cronies/contacts along with him.

oldgeezer

Once a traitor always a traitor. They don’t change their spots.

A Proud Infidel

John “Lurch” Kerry?

Fuck. Him. Like Das Hildebeast, he keeps popping back up like a shitty vase of Herpes.

sj

A “vase of herpes”? Damn, that’s brutal! But true. /smile

AW1Ed

A perfect place for that “bouquet of smashed assholes” we keep hearing about.

A Proud Infidel®™

Kaybroad error and not proofreading, “…case of Herpes…”

AW1Ed

“Vase of herpes” is now in the TAH lexicon, API.

A happy accident; no harm, no foul, and an opening for a couple more comments.

A Proud Infidel®™

AND I wasn’t even trying…

Thunderstixx

Golf clap !!!!!

Skyjumper

A little John Kerry poetry to start out your day. 🙂

The wounds that John Kerry got
When he was in the Viet Of The Nam War
Where he thought he had been shot
Only made a very tiny sore.

It has festered so much
During the years since
It has infected his brain
And his cells are all minced.

He’s too wishy-washy
And often changes his mind
Our country would be better
Without him or his kind.

https://youtu.be/MgSnsAbBsNQ?t=22

SSG D (ret)

I love you guys, but there are seriously a lack of facts that we have access to, before making bold statements. Jonn, I know you fact check every phony to extensive levels, however, we are not able to view the same details as POTUS does. So to say they’re still making nuclear weapons is an ambiguous statement. Sorry to be the nay-sayer, that’s on potus and Congress to determine

rgr769

Jonn didn’t say they “are still making nuclear weapons.” He said Kerry would prefer we “ignore the fact Iran hasn’t abandoned their nuclear weapons program.” It seems pretty obvious they haven’t since there is no way to know they have done so, and they lie every time their lips move. Iran will never abandon its nuclear weapons program without it being destroyed, period. As long as their regime is determined to dominate the middle east and destroy the “little Satan” and the “great Satan,” Iran will continue its nuke program.

AW1Ed

I’ll just leave this here.

Logan Act

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

Legal Dictionary Link

David

The definition apparently omitted an apparent exception, that if you’re a Democrat, it’s OK.

Thunderstixx

Especially if you are an incredibly ugly, steyoupid, inept, incompetent, lying klutz that thinks they will “do it smarter, better and with more rewards than anyone else in history…
Why can’t these people just shut up and go away. They are all sooooofuckingstupid I swear if they had a cold they would recycle their cheap toilet paper and use it to wipe their noses when covered with their own shit…
These people are just plain rude…

Mason

I was thinking Logan Act when I was reading that as well. Never been tested with actual charges though. However, if he is putting pressure on the administration “from the outside” as the article puts it, then he is clearly trying to usurp the duly elected administration.

OWB

Since he has never been called for (as far as any of us can prove) or charged with his previous violations of the Logan Act he has no reason to believe that he would be now. Yes, he is a traitor, always has been and continues to be one. No, he has no intention of going quietly.

Bill R.

John Kerry doing this IS a violation of the Logan Act, that is pretty much indisputable. BUT, the Logan Act, although it has never been tested in court, is itself unconstitutional. A free citizen cannot be tossed into jail for speaking to anyone, anywhere, about anything. The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees our God given right of free speech and while the demoncrats have tossed about the Logan Act a few times against Republicans, there is a reason it has never been used to charge anyone. Now if the charge were espionage, conspiracy, or something along those lines, it would be a whole new ballgame.

IDC SARC

perhaps finding out if he’s leaking classified information….oh, he’s a Democrat, never mind.

I admit that I find the idea of just arresting him on a Friday, so he has to in-process and spend at least the weekend in jail, more pleasurable than I probably should. 🙂

AW1Ed

…with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States…

I think this would pass a Constitutional challenge; at least get it into the courts and settle it once and for all.

26Limabeans

Kerry served in Viet of the Nam.
He has purple hearts. BFD.
Kerry called us baby killers. All of us. Stood there and lied. I saw it live because I’m old and I remember this guy. I remember quite a few of his friends also. Oh the names I could throw out there that made the news back then.
It’s tough growing old and seeing the NFG eat this shit right up without a clue.

rgr769

Me too. Saw him on the news running around in a fatigue shirt with a ribbon rack pinned on it. What an effing lying tool of progtardism. After he illegally met with the North Vietnamese when he was still a reserve officer in the Navy, he came back to the U.S. and parroted all their peace demands and was a loud, proud propaganda tool for them (the enemy). At any earlier time in history, his efforts would have had dire consequences for him.

RetiredDevilDoc8404

Lurch, baby how can we miss you IF YOU WON’T GO THE F*** AWAY? Just get on your girlie bike and pedal the hell off into the sunset with the ketchup lady and Hanoi Jane and just disappear. Eddie Murphy once said herpes was like luggage, you keep that shit forever – I’m beginning to think you’re more along the lines of anthrax spores you come to life when you’re wanted/needed the least. Not really nice to say, but Lurch go have a nice tall glass of Agent Orange and wash it down with a Blue and Purple chaser, do us all a favor…please.

rgr769

They should put his picture (preferably this one on the girl’s bike) in the Urban Dictionary next to the definition of “blue falcon.”

Sparks

This piece of shit called me and all those who served in Vietnam vile names and labeled us in the most defiling of terms. I remember his broad brush testimony and public statements of out and out lies from then, when he was making the name he wanted for himself at the time. Then when it suited his purposes, he used he reissued medals as credentials to be a politician. He is, always has been and always will be just a hero wannabe because he never was one, and he’s never been more than a self serving pile of scum. Fuck him forever.

OWB

One thing that he and his supporters do that always confuses me is call us all baby killers and other vile, disgusting things. It doesn’t seem to matter where you served, you are still a baby killer. While part of me is flattered to be included with everyone else who ever served in the military, my reality is that I was never in a position to kill any babies and would have chosen not to, given the choice.

(Lately, my response to anyone calling me a baby killer is to say, “You support abortion and I am the baby killer?”)

AW1Ed

Baby killers? Ask him to explain partial birth abortion.

A Proud Infidel®™

BUT WAIT, John “Lurch” Kerry threw his medals over the White House fence – no wait, he threw a friend’s Medals over the fence for him…

HMC Ret

Safety first, you piece of shit. Wear your pink helmet. (Although, really, I would prefer you take a header w/o a helmet. Nothing personal, you understand. I simply despise your fucking lying guts.)

Rosalee Adams

Lurch sold out April 22 ’71…….
Following his lullaby, to the Senate Foreign Relations committee, he joined Hanoi Jane on the trail
THAT all defined him for me.

A Proud Infidel®™

Let’s see, he had a failed bid for the US Presidency, the only thing missing from the bicycle he’s riding is some girly pink tassels on the handlebars, compare that to the pic I saw of VPOTUS Pence and his wife riding their Harley, I bet that John “Lurch” Kerry emits enough bitch fumes to choke an entire stadium!

HMC Ret

Well, at least he has a zero carbon footprint, except when he farts, which I’m thinking is often since he’s full of shit.

Guarantee we’ll see his hat in the ring in 2020. Guar-n-tee.

rgr769

Then let’s hope we will see John O’Neil come out to “swiftboat” him again on his legend of lies and traitorous conduct during time of war. Maybe Traitor Jane would like to run as his VP.

26Limabeans

We missed having him by a RCH last time.
We missed having Hillary by a thick black one though.
I hope he runs. The far left will back him with riots in the streets.

A Proud Infidel®™

Maybe he’ll hook up with a scumbag sue-aholic ambulance chaser like Edwards?

26Limabeans

KERRY/SANDERS 2020!
A New Vision for America

IDC SARC

Boot to the head!