Sen. John Kerry called comments about Israel by one of his Senate colleagues “absurd.” The Massachusetts senator and presumptive Democratic nominee for president said in a statement Friday that he disagreed with comments by Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (D-S.C.), in which Hollings said the United States went to war in Iraq because of Israel.
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