Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Derwinski can't give satisfactory answers, he should be disqualified from service in Bush's cabinet. Even if he isn't anti-Semitic, an inability to explain his silence would signify that he condones others' anti-Semitism. This is almost as reprehensible...
...person who publicly condones anti-Semitism has no place in government. Those in government should not be willing to single out anybody for mistreatment because of their race or their religious background. Such practices deny citizens the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. The Bush administration cannot have someone with the potential to discriminate in the government, especially in a department which so directly touches individual lives...
CRITICS have suggested that Derwinski is so staunchly anti-communist that he willingly ignores anti-Semitic and fascist, as well as racist, tendencies in other anti-communists. Such a practice, if continued in the Veterans Affairs Department, could leave World War II veterans wondering whose side he really takes...
...these veterans, along with the rest of America, will have to wonder what Bush was thinking when he made the appointment. Is he, too, so anti-communist that he is willing to brush over anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi pasts? Or does he condone such thinking in his Administration as long as it remains buried in the obscure new Department of Veterans Affairs, safely out of public view...
Bush can't afford to mess this up. He did a good job of distancing himself and his campaign from those with anti-Semitic backgrounds. But his refusal to do the same now would imply that his former actions were politically, not ethically, motivated...