They really said that?

[Michael Tee]

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/10/outrage-in-israel-as-us-envoy-mentions-revoking-loan-guarantee/

‘Outrage’ in Israel as US Envoy Mentions Revoking Loan Guarantee
Posted By Jason Ditz On January 10, 2010 @ 6:12 pm In Uncategorized | 13 Comments

<<Israeli officials are riled up tonight after an offhand comment by US envoy George Mitchell in an interview with PBS mentioned that the US could hypothetically revoke loan guarantees to Israel if the nation refused to re-start negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
Members of the ruling Likud Party vowed that Israel would not “give in to threats” while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “everyone knows” the Palestinian Authority is to blame for the stalled peace process. One minister added that it was an empty threat.
Even US Senators John McCain (R – AZ) and Joe Lieberman (I – CT) condemned Mitchell’s comment, saying that Congress would never allow the president to withhold any support for Israel under any circumstances.

<<Mitchell, for his part, quickly backpedaled, insisting that he didn’t mean to suggest that revoking the loan guarantees was at all appropriate and that it was simply a response to an interviewer’s question. A response which has stirred up a hornet’s nest in Israel, where anything short of cheerful endorsement from the US is viewed as a matter of grave security for officials.>>

Mitchell "recants" while Lieberman and McCain tell it like it is.

Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?  Is it somehow a radical and subversive idea that American legislators put American interests first?  WTF is going on here?

[Universe Prince]

Is it somehow a radical and subversive idea that American legislators put American interests first?  WTF is going on here?

Clearly McCain and Lieberman believe support for Israel is in the U.S. interest.

By the way, edit the "print/" off the end of your link. As is, it leads to a page that says "Sorry, you can't link to this directly!"

[Michael Tee]

Sorry about the print in the link - - I went to the "Print" page because it made the article easier to highlight for selection and cutting.  I'll take it out.

I read those lines as indicating that the U.S. interest was virtually irrelevant to the two Senators and I'm sure a lot of others did as well.