From an AIPAC drafted letter, circulated by Steny Hoyer and Eric Cantor.

WinSmith's attitudes, opinions, and aspirations are forged by a desire to cause one-sided notions to be entered into historical fact.

AIPAC exists. Congratulations on confirming that. So do a lot of other lobbying groups.

My point is and remains that, when Israel acts recklessly, they are often criticized by American politicians.

The pathological conspiracy theorist, be it Greenwald's December 2008 rants about how no one in Washington would "dare" to criticize Israel because of AIPAC control or William Luther Pierce's Turner Diaries narratives about Jewish control of Washington and exploitation of the Holocaust to help Israeli interests, always follow the same basic narrative: Hidden Jewish power controls hegemony to force the Nation into self destructive acts. This nonsense is hundreds of years old, and smells just as foul when Greenwald peddles it as when Pat Buchanan peddles it.

Dude, AIPAC is just a lobby group.

They're not the "secret" reason we invaded Iraq, and they won't be able to prevent the Obama team from deserved criticism of the new radical right-wing government and settlement expansions.

This isn't "encouraging," as Greenwald puts it when his pre-determined conspiracy theory narratives collide with real world actuality in Obama's actions.

Another entry of logical trainwrecks and ranting invective from the always self-righteous Glenn Greenwald.

Shorter version "AIPAC is teh Meany BOOOBOOO!!"

First paragraph -- Dictating terms toi Israel is the same as with General Motors because the U.S. Government gives money to both. An argument so utterly facile and ridiculous, it's hard to know where to begin.

In a related story, the U.S. government to begin issuing income tax requests from the I.R.S. to all Iraqis since we're currently helping them to build social infrastructure.

Oh wait.... you mean the I.R.S. doesn't tax foreigners the same way it does its own citizens? That's unpossible!! In both cases, government services are provided.

Moronic, Glenn. It should be faily obvious that dictating terms to foreign governments is one of the most politically explosive and complex actions a nation can take, for obvious reasons. Financial commitments to foreign defense budgets without commitments run as far and wide as the billions we give Israel and Pakistan to the military we provide Japan, Germany and South Korea. In none of these cases do we insert "strings."

To further support this nonsense, Glenn launches the most incoherent sentence this side of a Sean Hannity rant (and just as invective filled):

Does anyone remember what the U.S. did -- and continues to do -- in order to punish the Palestinians for electing the wrong party (in elections that we demanded) and to bring down their democratically elected government:

Hitler was democratically elected, Glenn, you moron. Under what standard does the radicalization of a society deserve deference merely because the radical was "elected"?

Just to follow the Greenwald logic train, Glenn asserts in the first paragraph that we have the right to dictate terms to those countries who receive aid from us, and it's hypocritical to argue otherwise since we did so with the Palestinians after they elected a terrorist group.

Which would be fine, except that Glenn's language clearly states his belief that this interference was wrong.

We "punished" the Palestinians in elections that we "demanded".

So we are hypocrites for doing the very thing that Greenwald now encourages us to do with Israel, even though when we did it with Palestine, it was "punishment" and "bringing down" a democratically elected government. Greenwald logic trainwreck -- here good, there bad, Mongo inconsistent.

Word, Glenn. Awesome.

And then... the evil AIPAC (muhahahahaha!!)

Who dare to consider using the democratic process:

AIPAC is now even issuing veiled threats of a primary challenge to the superb freshman Rep. Donna Edwards for alleged insufficient devotion to Israel.

Veiled threats!!

Insufficient devotion!!

I can't tell if Greenwald is ranting or reviewing the latest Ron Howard movie.

Of course the increasing criticisms of Israel over the past four months from American government officials (due to the Hamas bombings of late 2008 and election of a new, more radical right wing government) fly in the face of the paranoid Greenwald's rants in late 2008 about how no one in Washington could say peep about Israel because of the all powerful puppetmasters of AIPAC, secretly muttering "muuuHAHAHAHA!!!" and twirling their evil mustaches in smokey back rooms of Washington.

Wow, Glenn, how's about that?

Another President, just like Bill Clinton, openly criticizing Israel, pushing Israel to negotiate with Palestine and halt expansions. A Secretary of State joining in those criticisms.

All because of real world events of the past two years -- Israel's turn towards inexcusable bombing responses to terrorism.

What a crazy AIPAC conspiracy is taking place behind the scenes, hidden from view, forcing the government to bow to its will. Except when it isn't.