McCain at AIPAC: Drumbeats of War?

[L. Coyote]

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McCain: Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons poses an unacceptable risk, a danger we cannot allow.

[rucognizant]

1. Not suprised

That viscious hate monger old FART!
Guess I'd better start paying the 43. per mo for Direct TV just so I can watch Cspan! The rest s all garbage!

[bow-tie]

2. Fuck McCain, Israel

and all Israeli supporters in the US. Go to Israel and displace somemore palestinians and maybe you'll get your very own suicide bomber.
McCain could care less about the jews, he just wants their vote.

[Supersedeas]

3. so much for being a Maverick

[JohnyCanuck]

4. AIPAC and the Israel lobby.

And the winner is ... the Israel lobby
By Pepe Escobar

WASHINGTON - They're all here - and they're all ready to party. The three United States presidential candidates - John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Madam House speaker Nancy Pelosi. Most US senators and virtually half of the US Congress. Vice President Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. And a host of Jewish and non-Jewish political and academic heavy-hitters among the 7,000 participants.

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Few books in recent years have been as explosive or controversial as The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, written by Stephen Walt from Harvard University and John Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago, published in 2007. In it, professors Walt and Mearsheimer argued the case of the Israeli lobby not as "a cabal or conspiracy that 'controls' US foreign policy", but as an extremely powerful interest group made up of Jews and non-Jews, a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations tirelessly working to move US foreign policy in Israel's direction".

Walt and Mearsheimer also made the key point that "anyone who criticizes Israeli actions or says that pro-Israel groups have significant influence over US Middle East policy stands a good chance of being labeled an anti-Semite". Anyone for that matter who "says that there is an Israeli lobby" also runs the risk of being charged with anti-Semitism.

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AIPAC keeps a very close relationship with an array of influential think-tanks, like the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Security Policy, the Hudson Institute, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the Middle East Forum, the The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Sprinkled neo-cons in these think-tanks can be regarded as a microcosm of the larger Israel lobby - Jews and non-Jews (It's important to remember that Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser and five other neo-cons drafted the infamous "A Clean Break" document to Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996 - the ultimate road map for hardcore regime change all over the Middle East.)

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF03Ak01.html