GOP Delegation In Israel Contradicts U.S. Policy

[babylonsister]

GOP Delegation In Israel Contradicts U.S. Policy

JEN THOMAS | 08/ 6/09 05:13 AM | AP


JERUSALEM — The Obama administration's policy on Israel is misguided, puts too much emphasis on the issue of settlements and ignores the bigger threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, a U.S. delegation of Republican congressmen visiting Israel said Thursday.

Led by minority whip Eric Cantor from Virginia, the only Jewish Republican in Congress, the delegation of 25 Republicans say their weeklong mission to Israel is designed to show solidarity with the Jewish state and promote Mideast peace. A group of Democratic congressmen are expected to visit next week.

Cantor said that instead of focusing on issues such as Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank, Obama should concentrate on "the primary issue of import ... and that is the existential threat that Iran poses not only to the state of Israel but to the United States."

The congressman said he is "concerned about what the White House has been signaling of late."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/gop-delegation-in-israel_n_252998.html

[gratuitous]

1. The existential threat of Iran, Rep. Cantor?

Wow, how does someone with such a low estimation of the United States become a member of Congress? Iran poses an existential threat to the United States? Really? Does Rep. Cantor lose sleep at night, worrying about Iran wiping our country off the face of the earth? What a wuss.

[annabanana]

2. Where's the outrage? They're undermining our President's foreign

policy initiatives!

What happened to respect for "the water's edge"??

[babylonsister]

3. No kidding. This really annoys me. Do you remember

when Pelosi went over there and all the flack she got from the GOP? I'm steamed.

[City Lights]

6. I also remember how much our beloved corporate media helped the GOP dis Pelosi.

Now I'm hearing crickets.

:argh:

[BlooInBloo]

10. I suspect they would say something lke "dissent is patriotic"...

Lord knows we've certainly heard that plenty.

[godai]

4. Arrest them for treason when they try to return to the US.

Seriously...There should be at least some official discussion of what possible crimes they're committing. Someone needs to push back to scare the crap out of them.

[babylonsister]

5. Someone needs to teach them a lesson. This is just wrong. nt

[MidwestTransplant]

7. But I thought you can't go overseas and criticize the President?

[babylonsister]

8. I don't know if that's a 'rule', but it seems in very bad taste to me. nt

[MidwestTransplant]

9. The Freepers woudl get all up in arms if somebody went overseas and criticized Bush or US policy.