[Piranha]

I know that you are sympathetic to Israel, because I've read your posts before, so we can take that off the table.

I think that it takes a lot of courage fore Sen. Lieberman, a Democrat, to say waht he said on the committee. It seems (just from reading the posts) that he said it better than any of the Republicans who are there.

As someone else wrote above, he always has been a strong supporter of the war on terror. There are many Jews who are not, and there ar emany Jews who are dismissive of, or even opposed to, Israel (Adam Shapiro of ISM comes to mind).

When you take his statement and dismiss it by saying, essentially, he is Jewish and therefore a supporter of Israel, so he will help President Bush, I think that you are tarring him with a very broad brush. He should have the right to be taken at face value unless you have support for the idea that he is a mole for Israel in the US Senate.

[cajungirl]

well, I do not think he is a mole. He is a supporter of the War. He has always been outspoken. He is able to be so today because he is a dem and is not liable to be attacked and run out of town by saying what he said. But I am not meaning to use any disparagement or broad brush on him and if you saw it that way, well, that was not my intention. And BTW I sort of like Jews who look out for Israel. I don't see them as "moles" and think that whole line of thinking is bigoted.