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There’s something seriously wrong with America when an old fool like Fritz Hollings can be re-elected every six years to the U.S. Senate by South Carolina voters despite his mental lapses, despite his foot-in-mouth problems, despite his senility, despite his lack of sound judgment and grasp on the facts.
He should be an embarrassment to South Carolina, because he’s certainly an embarrassment to the nation.
The latest senior moment for the senior senator from South Carolina came earlier this month when he wrote a column for a newspaper in his state in which he claimed:
- President Bush acknowledges that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with Sept. 11. (He did not.)
- There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. (Some were found just this week.)
- The U.S. invaded Iraq to secure Israel and please American Jews.
Those are the central points. His incoherent rambling is further evidence the man is playing with a joker short of a full deck. He contends George Bush took office “imbued with one thought – re-election.”
The easy way to be re-elected, Hollings asserts, was to start a war in Iraq to take the Jewish vote away from the Democratic Party.
Now let’s consider this: There are reasonable arguments against the war in Iraq. I have arguments myself with the way it was started, the way it has been conducted and with the ultimate goals for the country. But can any responsible, sane, rational American reasonably contend that a surefire scheme for re-election was to start a war in Iraq or anywhere else?
War is always risky business – they’re much easier to start than they are to win. Everybody knows that.
Bill Clinton thought just the opposite was true. He conspired to withhold information from the American people about terrorist attacks on our soil – some of them involving Iraq – so he could purposely avoid politically risky foreign entanglements and responses to acts of war against this country. Politically speaking, he was probably right. He won re-election. But, strategically speaking, his irresponsible actions led directly to a series of escalating terrorist attacks on America and the inevitability of war for his successor.
About Hollings’ contention that Bush took action against Iraq to win favor with American Jews:
No. 1: The U.S. Jewish vote is very small. In fact, Israel gets far more support within the United States from evangelical voters representing between 30 million and 40 million people.
No. 2: I know of no polling data that suggests American Jews were broadly in favor of the invasion of Iraq. Hollings cites a few Jewish-sounding names among the architects of the plan to invade Iraq. He does not bother to cite any Jewish-sounding names among the many critics of the war – before it began or after.
And that brings us to the central point.
Hollings is not only an old fool unworthy of sitting in the U.S. Senate – let alone casting votes on matters of life and death for U.S. troops and U.S. civilians – he is a blustering bigot. He is a raving racist. He is an inartful anti-Semite. He is playing the old, thinly veiled anti-Jewish card to score political points in an election year.
It’s pathetic.
Not to mention the way he is adding to the demoralization of our troops bravely and heroically fighting right now for the liberation of Iraq and the defense of this nation against the terrorists who have attacked us repeatedly in the past and who will attack us repeatedly in the future.
For that he should be censured or summarily relieved of his duties by his colleagues.
But, don’t hold your breath.
His colleagues in the U.S. Senate also continue to sit alongside even bigger disgraces – people like Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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