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07/11/2007: "Whatever AIPAC Wants, AIPAC Gets"

In November, the American electorate repudiated Bush's
Iraq Debacle and established Democratic majorities
in both the House and Senate promising to bring this
"flawed policy wrapped in illusion" to a decisive end.

In the end, though,
37 Democratic senators capitulated and gratuitously gave
the President his $100 billion no-strings- attached blank check.

Curiously, all of the Traitor Democrats were
huge career recipients of funds from the Israeli lobby.
If we took 10 Democratic apostates and compared them
to ten Democrats who stood by the voters,
pro-Israeli PAC contributions were "ten times"
greater for the turncoats than those who stayed
with their constituencies ($322,000 versus $34,000 on average).

To be specific:
Carl Levin, outspoken critic of the war and, we thought,
a loyal supporter of the new regime to end it, defected and
blithely turned his back on his Michigan support base.
Despite his strident anti-war rhetoric, the Grand Rapids
Independent reports Levin has supported Bush all the way

"consistently funding the war and not introducing
any meaningful legislation to bring it closer to an end."
Practically unknown to his constituents, Levin is one of
the largest beneficiaries of Pro-Israeli PAC funds
collecting $600,000 in career contributions
according to the Washington Report on Mideast Affairs.

Barbara Boxer, Denis Kucinich, and Earl Blaumenauer,
all opponents of the war, collectively got $73,000,
but turncoat-democrats, Dan Durbin, Max Baucus, and
Frank Lautenberg scooped up in excess of a Million $$
- Plus untold benes like travel funds.

[ This is from a liberal outfit that's mad about Israel and other special interest groups running US policy with their dollars to fat, corrupt congresspeople. ]

http://www.counterpunch.org/kroth07102007.html