https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/u-s-senators-are-nearly-all-stooges-for-israel/

There are 58 Senators who are now co-sponsors of the bill S. 1881: Nuclear Weapon Free Act of 2013. This bill makes war with Iran more likely and peace less likely. Its aim is to jettison the successful negotiations between the U.S. and Iran that have already occurred and make further progress less likely. This bill has war against Iran as its underlying aim.

AIPAC is a very prominent anti-Iran lobbying organization.

55 of the 58 Senators who are co-sponsors of this pro-war bill have received money from AIPAC totaling $7.3 million (2007-2012). 39 non-sponsors have received AIPAC money too, their total being $5.4 million. These amounts are drawn from a list of the top Senate recipients of AIPAC funds. The per-Senator average money is almost the same for the two groups. It’s $132,795 for the sponsors and $138,024 for the non-sponsors. These distinctions are not that important, because we know that in 2012 the Senate voted 90-1 on an anti-Iran resolution and 94-0 to tighten sanctions. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to observe that the co-sponsor group, who tend to be the most vocal and hawkish and the most willing to promote war, is the group that has been paid the most money by AIPAC.

I’ve been writing articles against the U.S. policy on Iran for 7 or 8 years now. I have to admit that when the current administration began talking with Rouhani, I thought that this pretty much ended the threat of war. Never did I dream that the American warmongers, right and left, would meet these negotiations by attempting to pass new sanctions! Never did I dream that the neocons and Israeli interests had such influence in the U.S. Senate that they would seek to counter a peaceful foreign policy conducted by a sitting President. The hand that they have chosen to play has surprised me, but that’s because I did not fully appreciate the perfidy of the neocon policies. Having seen them already in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, I should have known better than to think that reason and the interests of the American people might prevail for a change. It is crystal clear at this point that we are looking at evil policies being promoted with unremitting vigor. They are every bit as evil as the expansionist and anti-communist policies of Adolph Hitler. We are looking at large numbers of traitorous Senators promoting very dangerous ideas that are expansionist and interventionist in nature. They have built up a structure of lies, falsehoods, exaggerations, false enemies, false threats, impossible aspirations for dominance, and misperceptions. We are looking at people who feign respectability, reasonableness, honesty, loyalty and intelligence but who, when they promote war against a President who is succeeding in bringing a degree of peace, must be counted as among the lowest of the low, people that we must revile and reject as “leaders”, people that we must see as enemies of the interests of the peaceful pursuit of happiness. These same people will, by and large, turn their guns against the American people and be most supportive of the national security state.

The following senators are Senate co-sponsors of this bill. Beside each name is the dollar amount of AIPAC contributions to that senator in the years 2007-2012.

Mark Kirk $925,379

John McCain $771,012

Mitch McConnell $430,925

Robert Menendez $344,670

Kirsten Gillibrand $326,937

Mary Landrieu $296,409

Benjamin Cardin $267,542

Charles Schumer $248,149

Robert Casey $192,550

Roger Wicker $158,861

Mark Warner $149,151

Susan Collins $139,518

Mark Pryor $138,250

John Thune $123,725

Roy Blunt $120,500

Joe Manchin $117,110

Pat Roberts $116,900

Bob Corker $114,770

David Vitter $112,619

Kelly Ayotte $111,899

Michael Bennet $109,126

John Cornyn $107,000

Saxby Chambliss $103,650

John Barrasso $99,050

Orrin Hatch $91,500

Jeff Sessions $86,550

Marco Rubio $86,200

Lisa Murkowski $85,900

Lindsey Graham $84,515

Daniel Coats $82,733

Richard Blumenthal $80,640

Joe Donnelly $72,911

Dean Heller $71,100

Richard Burr $70,850

Robert Portman $68,815

John Hoeven $67,535

Mike Johanns $63,635

James Inhofe $60,000

Charles Grassley $57,600

Jerry Moran $53,400

Thomas Coburn $47,445

Michael Crapo $45,750

Mike Lee $45,030

James Risch $41,750

Patrick Toomey $40,500

Ted Cruz $39,354

Mark Begich $36,727

John Boozman $34,250

John Isakson $31,600

Michael Enzi $31,600

Richard Shelby $27,250

Deb Fischer $26,400

Chris Coons $20,774

Tim Scott $15,310

Ron Johnson $10,400

1:22 pm on January 14, 2014

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