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Originally published by ZeroHedge
John Kerry, who is Biden’s special presidential envoy for climate, came up against rare pushback when he tried to issue the usual invective and talking points on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Putin’s aggression while speaking on French television in Paris.
But a French TV anchor wasn’t having it, and confronted Kerry over US hypocrisy, given Washington has mounted multiple invasions of sovereign countries in recent decades, especially since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Well-known French journalist Darius Rochebin during the Sunday night interview on news channel LCI posed the following: “We have to judge Putin for crimes of aggression, of course. But you, the Americans, you committed the crime of aggression in Iraq.” Rochebin then asked Kerry: “These countries of the Global South say, should we judge George Bush? Why isn’t Bush judged in the same way?”
Kerry simply tried to reject the comparison, without explanation, shooting back “no”. Rochebin quickly interjected, “Why?”
“Because there’s never even been a direct process or accusation or anything with respect to President Bush himself,” Kerry deflected. “Have there been abuses in the course of that war, yes.”
Rochebin didn’t let go after this nonsensical attempt to appeal to a legal “process” and mere “abuses” (in a war that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians). The journalist pressed: “Was it not a crime of aggression to enter into Iraq on the basis of a lie?”
“No, no, no,” Kerry said. “Well, we didn’t know it was a lie at the time. You know the evidence that was produced, people didn’t know that it was a lie. So no, again, I think, you’re stretching something. That’s not a constructive way —”
“But he lied,” Rochebin said of Bush. “He lied. He lied.”
A flustered Kerry, who had also served as Secretary of State under the Obama administration, then said, “Sir, I’m not going to re-debate the Iraq war with you here right now. We spent a lot of time doing that previously. I was opposed to going in, I thought it was the wrong thing to do. But we gave the president the power, regrettably, in the Congress, based on the lie. And when we knew it was a lie, people stood up and did the right thing.”
Rochebin came back with: “I get that. But you understand that for the countries of the South, of course, justice, equality, principles, it’s their impression that there is a double standard. And that weighs today, including on the debate of the climate,” Rochebin said.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald later observed of the interview, in which a humiliated Kerry was clearly unprepared to be challenged and called out so directly, “The complete lack of self-awareness on the part of the US establishment sometimes shocks me, despite the contempt I harbor for them.”
darius rochebin is not his real name. his name is : darius khoshbin. he is from ianian orgin and he speaks french but he is from switzerland. btw i agree with him, he’s right.
france is a dead country, real french have been wiped off paris since a decade now.
great interview and interviewer, putting that hypocrite nazi against the ropes
because the new world order announcement in 1989 by the pedophile and chief of the united $tate$ of anarchy “is in control”!… and the u.$.d is the only defacto world re$erve currency in which to buy and $ell anything!
and unless or until putin or his replacement separates from the un ca$in0, that double standard has no snow ball chance in hell of being changed!
mr. putin. or (your replacement) “tear down this post-911 wall”!…
tear down the federal reserve and the house of the dollar.
when the russian federation resigns it’s membership in the current un with the u.$.a. still in charge that will happen. but until then…
you can’t ask a war criminal such questions , that’s preposterous
i dont even speak french and i can tell you that this is a better political interview than anything american or british television has had in the last 20 years
“newfound jewish roots gave kerry a ‘deep’ bond with israel
secretary of state, who only learned his grandparents were jews in 2004, says he understands israelis’ reluctance to sign a deal”
seems to be like some connection to the force it gives you power, makes you spezial and lets you ignore every law you did not make yourselv.
“we didn’t know it was a lie’. what a lie that is. doesn’t he have a clue as to who scott ritter is? that he told them there were no wmds in iraq? that they tried to ruin him for it? kerry is the heir to a fortune he had nothing to do with making…but he sure fits right in with the rest of the thieves. the 1st gw was a put-up sham as well. they set saddam up to start the war on terror, and the 9/11 inside job clinched it.
kerry is the reason i stopped using heinz ketchup!
the biggest lie is the holocaust…. usa and russia are part of it. but as jewish banks : it’s too big to fall.
and others besides scott ritter told them. they perfectly knew. it was just an excuse to escalate their terrorist campaign against the middle east, while keeping the usa mic rich and motivated
ye..the deep state….they have fouanother way to liquidate &monize as their ‘archene as “aggressor states”.. those they peve as…comment too long
trying to steal my name, eh nafo? but it’s certainly not with a small pee like yours. which says a lot about nafo and their small pees. 😆😆😆
he is not gonna debate. of course he’s not going to. he is there to parrot his cheap propaganda and obtuse proselytism. not for anything productive.
you never debate when you know you’ll lose. he lost before he got started. but i did enjoy that deer-in-the-headlights look. he forgot he wasn’t in the us where that would never happen. just another owned traitor.
great journalism.
because bush murdered for the us establishment some 20+ years ago when they instrumentalised the right. and now it’s joe biden murdering and plundering and the very same establishment uses the left. and the only way for the population to win this game is to finally get rid of them. all of them.
what about the lies re russia, the lies were not confined to iraq. scott ritter and many called out the lies, in the uk 1m marched against this. the pope tried to stop the war. it was also syria, what about the oil theft by the us in syria? then there is libya, the coups like in ukraine…iraq is not the only example of us uk france -nato hypocrisy.
f uk us. how appropriate.
maybe biden’s special presidential envoy for climate should stick to climate matters, which he also knows nothing about. but then again, the quest isn’t the climate. it’s the scams associated with the un climate change nonscience for which he is perfectly capable of handling. once a crook, always a crook. the whole thing is a sham, as was the invasion of iraq & libya, and afghanistan, & syria.
troll 🧌 isn’t saying anything they don’t say all the time.
john kerry swift boat coward in nam. starting to look like frankenstein monster/lurch.
i wonder why kerry’s hiding his real name cohen?
us criminals and clown. and he is not the worst
when a kakistocracy, such as the putrefying anglzionazi empire of shit, is in its death throes then the caliber of “leaders” that we now see as in slumville ussa, with its panty pooping cadaver-in-chief and horse head vacuous clown ketchup “kerry” then all the signs are there that the evil house of cards is already tumbling down. the rump ukrap rout in the coming weeks and months will make that obvious to even the most rabid dogs in the anglozionazi pack.