May 22, 2004
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Hollings defends his statements on Israel
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — In a column, published this month, U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings wrote that Israeli officials had known there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
“With Iraq no threat, why invade a sovereign country? The answer: President Bush’s policy to secure Israel.”
He also wrote that Bush “came to office with one thought — re-election. Bush felt tax cuts would hold his crowd together, and spreading democracy in the Mideast to secure Israel would take the Jewish vote from the Democrats.”
Hollings also named three people as particularly responsible for Bush’s zeal to invade Iraq — Richard Perle, the former chairman of a board that advises Pentagon leaders; assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer. All are Jewish.
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