From The
Idiot Factor:
Mike Pompeo has been are real rising star from my home state of Kansas . He is
overwhelmingly popular with Kansas Republicans. He is also a war criminal.
According to McClatchy:
“He’s ruled out a U.S. Senate run in 2020. But on the eve of Pompeo’s first official
visit to Kansas
He has real support from a real conservative state. President Donald
Trump has taken more than one of his conservative stooges from the state of Kansas . All of that
promotion has made Pompeo one of Kansas Republican’s most popular politicians.
Again, according to McClatchy:
“Republicans in the state think that means
one of two things — a bid for Senate or the governor’s mansion in 2022. That is, if
Pompeo doesn’t decide to run for president in 2024 instead.
He’d be well placed for a run in Kansas
According to Stars And Stripes:[1]
“The United
States will revoke or deny visas to International
Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other
abuses committed by U.S.
forces in Afghanistan or
elsewhere, and may do the same with those who seek action against Israel
Pompeo, acting on a threat delivered in
September by U.S. national
security adviser John Bolton, framed the action as necessary to prevent the
international body from infringing on U.S.
WOW! Does that say a lot about US conduct in a foreign country?[2] Pompeo
will not allow anyone to go into a foreign country that the US occupies and check on
allegations of torture or other forms of war crimes. He also included Israel . This
statement contains an amazing confession that the US
sees Afghanistan as a part
of the US
and not a sovereign nation of its own. The US
invaded Afghanistan
shortly after September 11, 2001 and has stayed there ever since. The US has
installed a puppet government and has used US military troops to prop it up
over all these years.
Stars And Stripes goes one to
say:
"We are determined to protect the
American and allied military and civilian personnel from living in fear of
unjust prosecution for actions taken to defend our great nation," Pompeo
said.’
Of course that means that the people who live in Afghanistan do
not have the same rights and if they have been tortured or harmed in some way
there isn’t anything they can do about it. We can also see some of that “America first”
type policy” of Trump’s in this part of the article:
“U.S.
officials have long regarded the Netherlands-based ICC (International
Criminal Court) with hostility, arguing that
American courts are capable of handling any allegations against U.S.
The US
has championed putting people from third-world countries, such as Ugandan rebel
leader Joseph Kony, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, and Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi on trial for their alleged war crimes. All of these
people are from small, poor and backward countries. No leader from any first-world
industrialized country has ever been investigated or accused of any war crime.
It is ironic that Trump and his people don’t trust the ICC. To claim the US can handle
“any allegations against US forces” is laughable. Imagine if Gaddafi had made
that argument?! It would make as much sense.
There are a lot of Republicans and conservative Kansans who really
aren’t bothered by human rights abuses in foreign affairs. They couldn’t care
less about the people who are harmed in such countries as Afghanistan .
But some of us find it disturbing that such a man, with such an abysmal record
on US human rights wants to
come back to Kansas to resume some kind of a
career representing the worst that Kansas
has to offer. Pompeo’s statements show an outright disrespect for any kind of
sovereignty for the people of Afghanistan .
Pompeo was elected to the Fourth District House of Representatives in
2011. That is a staunchly Republican district that hasn’t had a Democrat in it
since before Republican Todd Tiahrt beat long-time Democrat incumbent Dan
Glickman, in 1995. Pompeo ran against Tiahrt in 2014, for that same district
and I didn’t realize how much worse he could be. But Pompeo has been a blatant,
all out imperialist.
For many of us, Pompeo would do best to stay out of Kansas . We don’t need nor want him here.
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