Lawrence O'Donnell's anti Clinton propoganda last night

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111. I'm sure many American Jews opposed the Iraq invasion

But the perception was that most of the Jewish community was in favor of it. This article from Salon back in 2002 represents the way I remember it:

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, of course, has made it policy to support whatever Bush decides to do on Iraq. But even some liberal Jewish leaders favor invading Baghdad. Rabbi David Saperstein, a liberal Washington lobbyist who heads the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, which represents 1.5 million American Jews, usually acts as a bulwark against the excesses of the right. Yet about a war with Iraq, he says, “The Jewish community would want to see a forceful resolution to the threat that Saddam Hussein poses.”

There’s near-unanimity among mainstream Jewish groups about the need for the U.S. to confront that threat. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, says, “In the American Jewish community, there’s a great deal of support for the president’s stand.” And David Harris, deputy executive director of the American Jewish Democratic Council, argues that American and Israeli interests on Iraq mesh: “What’s good for Israel is good for America, because it lends stability to the region and because it’s a strategic ally.”

Support for the war from the leaders of a traditionally Democratic bloc creates a potentially perilous situation for any Democrat tempted to oppose the administration’s Iraq plans. In fact, among Jewish lobbyists in the Beltway, support for the impending war is almost taken for granted — several are puzzled by the very suggestion that any kind of strenuous opposition to an Iraq invasion might emerge. This pains some old-school Jewish lefties, who see the weakening of a traditional constraint on Republican excess and who fear that Jews will take the blame should the war go wrong.

http://www.salon.com/2002/09/14/jews_iraq/