Bachmann, other Congress members are in Israel this week [privately funded trip sponsored by AIPAC]

[Purveyor]

Source: Star Trubune

WASHINGTON - Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is spending a week in Israel on a privately funded trip sponsored by the America Israel Education Federation (AIEF), her office announced Wednesday.

The AIEF -- the charitable arm of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) -- is also the sponsor of a trip to Israel next week by a separate delegation of lawmakers that includes Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

Bachmann's group left for Israel on Sunday. The 21-member delegation, led by Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., has met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a former prime minister. They are scheduled to meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres today.

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Along with Bachmann and Ellison, the group is sponsoring trips to Israel in the coming weeks for nearly 40 other Republican and Democratic lawmakers, many of them freshmen.



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[Jim Sagle]

1. AIPAC RRRRRAWWWWXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!

:beer:

[Tom Joad]

2. We need alternatives. we should say no to militarism.

www.stopAIPAC.org

[WCGreen]

3. Oy vay...

Such talk...

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. Can They Keep Her? eom

[Thor_MN]

6. With any luck, they will diagnose her insanity and commit her...

[ClintonTyree]

5. And we need to give Israel MORE aid?

Why, so they can afford to bring EVERY American Lawmaker to Israel for the "Road to Armageddon Tour", to assure their support of Israel's war machine? Disgusting. :puke:

[leftchick]

7. Planning an Iran Attack?

and more defense spending? Disgusting.