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Fifth Column

Cynthia McKinney: 'US lawmakers forced to support Israel'

2011-05-23

[Iran Press TV]

Former US politician Cynthia McKinney says every candidate for Congress has to sign a pledge to vote for supporting the military superiority of Israel.

"Every candidate for Congress at that time had a pledge. They were given a pledge to sign ... that had Jerusalem as the capital city," McKinney said in an interview with Press TV on Sunday.

"You make a commitment that you would vote to support the military superiority of Israel that the economic assistant that Israel wants that you would vote to provide that," she added.

McKinney said that if a candidate does not sign the pledge or perform accordingly, "then you do not get money to run your campaign."

The former Congresswoman said that after she made the pledge issue public "the tactic changed."

"But this is what is done for 535 members of the United States Congress, 100 senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives have to now write a paragraph which basically says the same thing."

He comments came as US President Barack B.O. Obama vowed to sustain Israel's military superiority over its neighbors at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual gathering on Sunday.

"We (the US) will maintain Israel's qualitative military edge"... "We have increased military financing to record levels," Obama said.

Posted by:Fred

#12 You're right as usual, Besoeker.

My apologies to shit everywhere.

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-05-23 22:59

#11 Read, no. Read to, yes.

Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-23 20:09

#10 Atomic Conspiracy, do you honestly think that Cynthia McKinney reads tedious alternate-history potboilers? Hell, I *like* alt-h and I can't get through Turtledove's cookie-cutter "slot stock character A in thinly disguised variant on out-of-period historical event B" books. I think I gave up on that particular series just before the Victorious Opposition, if only because it was getting so that I could have written the outlines ahead of time before even opening the books.

Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-05-23 20:06

#9 #8 Oh, shut up, Cynthia you worthless sack of sh*t.

Please! No more comparisions to manure. Perhaps we could all be in agreement that it serves an organic, useful purpose.

Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-23 19:27

#8 Oh, shut up, Cynthia you worthless sack of sh*t.

Why don't you take a long walk on a short pier.

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-05-23 19:20

#7 Does anyone really still take this flake seriously?

I mean does anyone sane still do?

Posted by: DarthVader 2011-05-23 10:46

#6 That's why Israel supplies USA with replacement organs that we're harvesting from Palestinian children, Cynthia.

Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-23 05:34

#5 WORLD NEWS > [Siasat Daily] US MUSLIMS BATTLE TO BE THE VOICE OF ISLAM.

CAIR need not apply.

* SAME WN > BARACK OBAMA AGREES TO FORM JOINT NATIONAL SECURITY BODY WID UK.

Prelude to future OWG Britusa = Anglo/Amertania
"Regionalism"???

* SAME > LEUREN MORET: FUKUSHIMA [was HAARP] TECTONIC NUCLEAR WARFARE MONITORED BY WORLD PARTNERS.

* SAME > JAPAN WARNS SOUTH KOREANS OVER TOUR OF DISPUTED ISLANDS [South Kuriles].

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-23 02:24

#4 One of McKinney's more bizarre conspiracy claims is that several thousand black convicts were massacred in Lousisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Interestingly enough, her tale bears a striking resemblance to an episode in Harry Turtledove's alternate history, The Victorious Opposition. This is set in the 1930s, in a world where the Confederacy won the Civil War and lasted into the 1940s.

The number of victims is the same, about 5000, and they are almost all men. In both cases, the victims are trucked into a swamp and shot, and their bodies left unburied. In both cases, there is a huge cover-up and dark rumblings in the rumor mill. McKinney attributes this to federal authorities, while in Turtledove's story the atrocity is the work of Confederates launching a Holocaust type genocide against blacks. The Victorious Opposition was published in 2003, two years before Katrina and 4 years before McKinney made her claims.

Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2011-05-23 01:32

#3 So they let her out on a pass?

Is she medication compliant?

Is she still nuttier than a nutmeg crazed squirrel?

Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-05-23 01:15

#2 Cynbat the Sailor

Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2011-05-23 00:59

#1 Sounds like a basic statement supporting the party platform. The Democrats don't openly oppose Israel - yet.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-05-23 00:39

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