Three Jewish Democratic congressmen criticized a Democratic colleague in the Senate who cast the Iraq war as a ploy to help Israel. A letter from Reps. Barney Frank (Mass.), Tom Lantos (Calif.) and Henry Waxman (Calif.) to Sen. Ernest Hollings (S.C.) rejects the analysis that the senator offered in a column last month. “We believe this is bad analysis, bad history, and an extremely inappropriate singling out of one element in a very complex mix for responsibility,” they wrote.
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