Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release Thursday, 1 June 2017

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au

Mad McCain is a greater global threat than the ISIS he helped create

If US Senator John McCain was in Australia to promote the Glass-Steagall separation of commercial and investment banks, which he sensibly supports, he should be welcomed with open arms. Many people support Glass-Steagall, even City of London and Wall Street bankers, and ardent Thatcherites in the UK, all of whom have been able to acknowledge, after the crash of 2008, that it is after all the only sane way to run a financial system, but it doesn’t make them saints.

John McCain is not here to promote Glass-Steagall, however, and he is certainly no saint. He is an extremist warmonger who fraternises with and supports neo-Nazis and terrorists and who is here to promote the neocon agenda of regime change and permanent war.

McCain proclaimed, on 29 May’s ABC 7.30, that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a greater global threat than ISIS.

Really?

ISIS is a spin-off from al-Qaeda, the Saudi-funded terrorist network responsible for 9/11, the 2004 Madrid train bombing, the 7/7 subway bombing in London in 2005, and many more mass deaths.

ISIS split from al-Qaeda, because al-Qaeda was supposedly not brutal enough! It has imposed a reign of terror across Iraq, Syria and Libya, featuring public beheadings, mass-executions of students and prisoners, sometimes by young children, beheading and burning foreign captives alive, throwing gay men from tall buildings, and kidnapping women to be sex slaves.

It runs a sophisticated online operation for recruiting foreign fighters and directing terrorist attacks in the West, including the Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan and Nice attacks in France, the San Bernardino and Orlando mass-shootings in the USA, and attacks in Germany, Canada, Australia, Russia, and the UK, including the recent Manchester bombing.

What about Vladimir Putin?

While Putin offered the USA full support on the day of 9/11, which George W. Bush acknowledged, he refused to support the fraudulent Iraq war, and warned of the consequences.

He opposed the 2011 intervention in Libya which turned that country into a failed state and a safe haven for al-Qaeda and ISIS, but as he was not Russia’s President at the time (he was Prime Minister in 2008-12) he lacked the authority to use Russia’s veto in the UN Security Council to block it.

He also did not support the push for regime change in Syria which led to the declaration of an Islamic State. On the contrary: he said enough is enough, and at the request of the Syrian government and therefore entirely legally under international law, he intervened to stop al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists and the governments of the USA, Britain and France from overthrowing the Assad government. The same Western governments that everyone knows have been happy to back al-Qaeda and ISIS to achieve their regime change objectives in Syria, and therefore have the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands, then turned around and accused Putin and Russia of war crimes.

As for Ukraine, the USA assured Russia when the Soviet Union ended that NATO would not expand eastwards to threaten Russia, but immediately broke its promise, and NATO expanded right up to Russia’s border. Following the violent overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine in February 2014, Putin deployed troops in Crimea—where they were already legally present, at a leased naval base—as peacekeepers until a referendum could be organised; the vast majority of Crimeans are Russian and voted overwhelmingly to rejoin Russia. For that Putin has been compared with Hitler.

Now let’s look at McCain.

McCain, along with Hillary Clinton, is the leader of the “Project Democracy” apparatus in the USA. It includes the National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiaries such as the International Republican Institute, which McCain chairs. This apparatus ploughs billions of dollars into interfering in the politics of nations that neocons and so-called liberal interventionists target for regime change. More than irony, it is hypocrisy that it is the leaders of this grouping who are screaming loudest that “Russia interfered in the US election”.

McCain championed the Iraq war, which has unleashed hell on earth in the Middle East. He used his authority as a senior US Senator to personally promote, and propagandise for, the 2011 Libya intervention, calling it the Arab Spring. His role included appearing in photos with known al-Qaeda terrorists from the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, to whitewash them for the Western media so they would be reported as freedom fighters. The same LIFG terrorists spawned Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people in Manchester on 22 May. A few months after these al-Qaeda terrorists brutally murdered Libyan president Qaddafi, McCain tweeted this threat to Putin on 5 December 2011: “Dear Vlad, The #ArabSpring is coming to a neighbourhood near you.” Yet Putin is the “threat to democracy”.

Without breaking stride, McCain took the point in the US Senate on making Syria the next target for regime change. Again he appeared in photos with known monsters, including one terrorist whose group at that very moment was holding Westerners hostage. While McCain repeatedly denounced President Assad as a butcher, his al-Qaeda friends from Libya flooded into Syria with the arms that the USA, the UK and France had allowed them to confiscate from Qaddafi’s arsenal. They brought with them their extreme, Wahhabite abomination of Islam funded by Saudi Arabia (which, according to Wikileaks, also funds McCain’s vanity John McCain Institute for International Leadership at the University of Arizona), to superimpose on a secular nation which protects the rights of all religions and equal rights for minorities and women. From this mix emerged the horror of ISIS. Yet Assad is the butcher.

In December 2013 and early 2014 McCain participated in the mass protests in the Maidan square in Kiev, Ukraine, calling for the overthrow of the elected government. He addressed the protests from a public stage alongside Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of the neo-Nazi Svoboda Party, to again whitewash for the Western media the fact that the USA was backing violent neo-Nazis to stage a coup ultimately targeted at Russia. Yet Putin is the new Hitler.

Donald Trump is a very flawed person and president. But he also did not support these Western crimes of intervention in Iraq, Libya and Syria, and in fact has condemned them in more honest terms than any other US politician. He has also expressed a desire for better US relations with Russia. John McCain leads the attack on Trump every time he does something that can achieve peace with Russia and in Syria, but heaps praise on Trump every time he does something stupid and dangerous such as bombing Syria on a fabricated pretext.

McCain is here to encourage Australia to keep with its longstanding foreign policy of supporting every US-UK criminal aggression in the Middle East that has fuelled international terrorism, and to go further: to fully back and participate in the neocon’s ultimate regime change fantasy—against China, our number one trading partner.

McCain is dangerously mad, as is Australia if we persist with our present foreign policy. The good news is he doesn’t speak for Trump, his views hold no sway in China and Russia, and if next week Jeremy Corbyn, whose views are anathema to McCain, is elected prime minister of Britain, there will be no major world leader committed to McCain’s neocon ideology.

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