[twigs]

Lieberman is Jewish and probably feels the immediacy of Iraq's threat more than the run-of-the-mill democrat. Didn't he also have a distant relative, also named Lieberman, die in Israel in the last several years?

[The Great Satan]

Sounds vaguely familiar. And, yeah, he would would have more reason to be aware of Saddam's threat as a Jew, although there are certainly plenty of liberal Jews who don't get it. Recall, too, that abiding leftist hostility to Israel was a big factor in driving many formerly left-wing Jews into the conservative camp.

[SmithW6079]

It was a cousin, I think. Last year.