Israel

This press release sums up my views on the topic. This is the darkest side of our political system. I'd
fight to establish a $200,000 earning and spending cap on all candidates. This would put a check on
AIPAC's power (and all lobby groups) over our political system. I would not abandoning an allie in a
real situation, I'm talking about weeding through the bull. No more unnecessary war for a special
interest group. This must never happen again:

-- AIPAC executive director Howard Kohr told the New York Sun in January 2003: "lobbying Congress to
approve the use of force in Iraq was one of AIPAC's successes over the past year."

-- In a New Yorker Magazine profile of Steven Rosen, AIPAC's policy director during the run-up to the war
on Iraqi, he stated that "AIPAC lobbied Congress in favor of the Iraqi war".

-- Compare it with a 2007 Gallup study based on 13 different polls, according to which 77% of American
Jews were opposed to the Iraq war, compared to 52% of Americans. Walt and Mearsheimer contend "the
war was due in large part to the lobby's influence, and especially its neo-con wing. The lobby is not always
representative of the larger community for which it often claims to speak."

Jimmy making the
requisite 48 hr pilgrimage
to take this photo and sign
the papers of allegiance.
Next congresssional
candidate waiting in the
hall - step right in for your
photo.

You won't find me waiting
in the hall. I pledge
allegiance to one country
and one country only.

Lee

Apparently Himes is in
good company click on the
link below by a former
congressman. This is what
is wrong with our country.

"More dangerous than the
Islamic extremists are the
extremists down in
Washington - the powers
that be at AIPAC and their
right wing faction the
Neoconservatives. They
do not represent
mainstream American
Jews. American Jews are
highly-educated and
peace-loving. They were
less-likely than the general
population to vote for war
in Iraq..."

- Lee Whitnum