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Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker: John Kerry should be on a plane to Baghdad (VIDEO)
Pundit Press ^ | June 17 2014 | Dan Butcher

Posted on 06/17/2014 12:48:09 PM PDT by PoloSec

John Kerry is too busy spreading BS about climate change to worry about the Middle East going up in flames.

On Tuesday. former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said that “Secretary Kerry, in my view, should be on a plane right now for Baghdad.”

“Diplomacy is what is crucial right now.

“We need to work with the Iraqis at the highest level. That would be Secretary Kerry, backed by the president, so that they can demonstrate the national unity, Kurdish, Sunni and Shia, that is going to be essential, if there is going to be any hope of turning back the ISIS threat.

“I would have liked to have seen more sustained high-level diplomatic engagement with the Iraqis. This is a very young democracy that has a lot of challenges. We are hard-wired into their political system. We helped create it, we can’t walk away from it.

“So I would have preferred, since 2011, to see us more deeply and intensively engaged at the highest levels of government. I don’t think it’s too late, but we better move now,” Crocker said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baghdad; iraq; kerry

1 posted on 06/17/2014 12:48:09 PM PDT by PoloSec
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To: PoloSec

Traitor in the 70s

Traitor in the 80s

Traitor today.


2 posted on 06/17/2014 12:49:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: PoloSec

He’ll probably ask for a Swift Boat to take him on a cruise up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers instead of talking diplomacy with Melaki.


3 posted on 06/17/2014 12:50:29 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: PoloSec

Reporting for duty .....

4 posted on 06/17/2014 12:51:31 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: PoloSec

Can it be only a one way ticket?


5 posted on 06/17/2014 12:51:34 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: BenLurkin

And a dullard in between.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 12:52:10 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Servant of the Cross

This can’t be a new picture of Kerry because his face is bigger and Blank today


7 posted on 06/17/2014 12:53:11 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: PoloSec

Unless FUBAR is the desired outcome...


8 posted on 06/17/2014 12:53:32 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: PoloSec

Sounds good, as long as there is no return ticket.


9 posted on 06/17/2014 12:56:01 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: PoloSec

Can’t say I blame him for not going. He’s fully aware of what happens to diplomats in embassies under seige with this admin.


10 posted on 06/17/2014 12:59:45 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: edpc
As then-Senator Kerry put it so eloquently, “Nothing bad happened in Viet Nam after we left.”
11 posted on 06/17/2014 1:07:34 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: PoloSec

If that ever happened, Kerry would probably desert, be held hostage by ISIS and then traded for all Guantanamo detainees.


12 posted on 06/17/2014 1:13:29 PM PDT by Corporate Democrat
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To: PoloSec

Where is Jon Carry anyway?


13 posted on 06/17/2014 1:15:59 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Servant of the Cross

Looks like a big condom; if you are implying that JohnF#ckingQueery is a D#ckhead you are absolutely right.


14 posted on 06/17/2014 1:22:07 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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