Republican Warmonger Busted Showing Fake Photos Of Ukraine War During Senate Speech

[kpete]

Republican Warmonger Busted Showing Fake Photos Of Ukraine War During Senate Speech
AUTHOR: RANDA MORRIS FEBRUARY 15, 2015 12:09 PM

During a speech given on the floor of the U.S. Senate, GOP Senator Jim Inhofe presented a series of fake photos, which he claimed show Russian troops advancing in the Ukraine. Inhofe used the fake photos as justification for his senate bill, which would authorize the U.S. to provide “lethal military aid” to the Ukraine.

Inhofe said:

“We have the Russians in there with the Separatists doing horrible things, things that are just as bad as the things that are taking place in ISIS, Syria and other places.”

To demonstrate his point, Inhofe claimed he “brought back” a group of photos from a trip to the Ukraine. He goes on to claim that the photos are evidence of Russian tanks in the Ukraine.

The photos Inhofe used are not what he claims. Two were taken in 2008, during Russia’s war with Georgia. The other, which was taken in October, shows Russian-backed separatists in the Luhansk town of Krasniy Luch.

Inhofe is the author of Senate Bill 452, which would authorize the U.S. to provide “lethal military aid” to the Ukraine. He introduced the bill on February 11, 2015, using the fake photos to illustrate why the United States must provide “lethal” weapons to the Ukraine.

In a February 11 press release, published to his official website, Inhofe states:
http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/inhofe-authors-bill-to-arm-ukraine-with-lethal-military-aid

These photographs were given to me by Lt. Col. Semen Semenchenko, the commander of Donbas Volunteer Assault Battalion and newly elected member of the parliament of Ukraine, during our meeting on 13 Nov last year.

The first set of pictures show Russian troops in T-72 tanks, BTR armored personnel carriers, and BMP infantry fighting vehicles entering eastern Ukraine, waiving Russian flags. This is not simply supporting separatists – it is an invasion of the Ukraine by Russia.

The second set of pictures were taken by Ukrainian soldiers on the front line in eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials deny providing Inhofe with the photos. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL):

Yuriy Bereza, a parliamentarian who also leads the pro-Kyiv Dnipro battalion in eastern Ukraine, says that when he and a Ukrainian delegation met with Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe’s staff last November, he provided them only with photos taken by his men between August 24 and September 5.

“Those photos were taken during [the battle] for Ilovaisk, then after Ilovaisk events in Piskiy and Mariupol — three places” he told RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service. “I never gave photos from 2008.”

Wondering just how similar the images were?



In his best attempt to impersonate war crazed Senator John McCain, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma released photographic proof of Russian solders in Ukraine in order to push forward his bill to provide U.S. arms to Ukraine. Or so he thought…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-13/thirst-war-sen-inhofe-releases-fake-photos-russian-troops-ukraine

MORE plus VIDEO:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4528166/senator-inhofe-shows-fake-photos-ukraine-war
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/15/jim-inhofe-fake-ukraine-photos-video/
http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/inhofe-authors-bill-to-arm-ukraine-with-lethal-military-aid
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-senator-inhofe-fake-photos/26849852.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. Six months off without pay for the Senator? The traditional media must be outraged, right?

[Panich52]

2. Probably plenty of pix could illustrate his point, yet he fakes them.

Preaching to his choir since they're the only ones who'd not bother to do a fact check. Sheeple.
..

[mopinko]

3. i dont support term limits or mandatory retirement, but

some sort of screening for senility would be good.
jeebus. that guy is soooo out there.

[stillwaiting]

4. I have no idea how he can sleep at night. None. Whatsoever. nt

[Egnever]

5. Inhofe no surprise there.

Quite possibly the biggest tool in congress.

"With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it." —July 28, 2003, speech on the Senate floor

"Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind." — July 29, 2003, Tulsa World interview

"This has become a culture. These people are absolutely crazy." — Jan. 13, 2004, Tulsa World interview, referring to supporters of warming theory

"Is global warming causing more extreme weather events of greater intensity, and is it causing sea levels to rise? The answer to both is an emphatic 'no.' " — Jan. 4, 2005, speech on the Senate floor

[rhett o rick]

6. Was he called to task on the Senate floor? And there is no truth to the rumor that HRC was heard

saying that she would support the war, any war.

[turbinetree]

7. Impeachment

Must be nice to be standing in the Senate, proclaiming a LIE and then having the audacity to lie to everyone's face and the public so that we will foot the bill on these shenanigans, just resign, what a jerk, or he should be Impeached.
And if anyone gets up in the senate and says my dear friend or my colleague across the aisle they are just has corrupt has he is and have no, nada, zilch moral character

[calimary]

8. The more discouraging problem is - WHO SENDS THIS IDIOT to the United States Senate????

WHO IS IT back home who thinks this guy is just great, certainly senatorial material, he speaks for them, and they find his representation of them to be just okie-dokey because they keep on voting for him!!!

THEY are the real problem. I'm sorry to say that! There are wonderful people in Oklahoma. But it seems they are either few and far between - or else they just don't go out and vote in every election. That the voters find him acceptable, repeatedly, just leaves me scratching my head. I'd expect that anybody with half a brain would know enough not to keep rubber-stamping this guy.

He makes you look like SHIT, Oklahoma! You deserve BETTER!!!!!!!

[onenote]

12. Senators can't be impeached

They can be expelled. But that's not happening either.

[G_j]

9. K&R

[Gothmog]

10. Inhofe is an idiot

Why is anyone surprised at this?

[KoKo]

11. Because he's a dangerous Idiot but sadly has Dem allies on US Arming Ukraine....

Opinions--Washington Post
Give Ukraine the weapons it needs for self-defense

By Carl Levin and James Inhofe October 19, 2014

Carl Levin, a Democrat, represents Michigan in the Senate, where he is chairman of the Armed Services Committee. James Inhofe, a Republican, represents Oklahoma in the Senate and is the ranking minority member on the committee.

When Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke to a joint session of Congress last month, he thanked the United States for its assistance in confronting Russian aggression, and indeed, our country, along with our NATO allies, has done much. But Poroshenko asked us for more. “Blankets, night-vision goggles are also important,” he said, “but one cannot win the war with blankets.”

We believe now is the time to add defensive military aid, including weapons, to our support of Ukraine.

This is a cause worth supporting. The Ukrainian people face a heavily armed insurgent force — equipped , trained and supported by Russia — and, more recently, Russia’s own military forces, seeking to establish by force the political and economic dominance Vladimir Putin desires. This aggression undermines peace and stability not just for Ukraine but also in all of Europe, and it sets the wrong precedent for international relations. That is a threat to U.S. interests. As we saw with the tragic downing of a Malaysian jetliner reportedly by ­Russian-supported forces, the impact of Putin’s reckless aggression is global.

It’s important to remember what sparked Russia’s intervention: the peaceful, democratic protests of the Ukrainian people that unseated a corrupt, Putin-friendly regime. Supporting Ukraine’s desire for peace, freedom, territorial integrity and democracy supports values Americans hold dear.

We and our NATO partners have taken significant steps to support Ukraine by providing more than $100 million in military assistance (including an additional $46 million of assistance announced during Poro­shenko’s visit), deployments to Eastern Europe and increased military cooperation. And most important, we and our European partners have imposed biting economic sanctions that have damaged the Russian economy, plunging it toward recession and signaling to Putin that he cannot benefit from European economic strength on one hand while endangering it on the other.

Continued at.........

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/carl-levin-james-inhofe-give-ukraine-the-weapons-it-needs-to-defend-itself/2014/10/16/06da647a-4fe2-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html

[nilesobek]

13. He should be jailed for this.