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This is simplistic moralism. Letting Saddam grow more powerful may be trading an absence of conflict now for a larger, more destructive conflict in the future.

Note that Carter’s Left-wing Iran policy started the troubles with Iraq. The fall of the Shah emboldened Iraq to invade Iran; the war that resulted cost around one million human lives.

Blaming the country which tries to maintain order rather than the country which is destabilizing its part of the world is just another version of appeasement.

FORMER US President Jimmy Carter is backing the Daily Mirror's Not in My Name campaign.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the only US president since 1945 never to order American soldiers into war, endorsed our stance on war with Iraq, saying: “You're doing a good job. I am glad about that. War is evil.”

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He said: “Some very embarrassing things have happened in this country.

“Time magazine in Europe did a public opinion poll on its website and over 350,000 people responded to the question, ‘Which country poses the greatest threat to world peace?’

“North Korea received seven per cent of the votes, Iraq received eight per cent and the United States received 84 per cent.”

False memories have been used to “solve” crimes, but in some cases have led to disastrous results, particularly in cases involving child abuse.

Scientists have planted false memories into people's minds in a study that demonstrates just how easy it is to for police to convince people they have witnessed something that did not actually happen.

More than a third of people are susceptible to false memories, according to studies by Elizabeth Loftus, professor of psychology at the University of California. Her experiments could explain why so many people in Washington DC said they saw a white van near to the scene of last year's sniper shootings. In fact, the snipers used a dark Chevrolet Caprice and no white van was involved.

The Left simply refuses to recognize that Saddam will be deposed by force if he refuses to comply with the U.N. resolution.

European leaders, trying to end their bitter dispute over Iraq, warned Saddam Hussein on Monday he faces a “last chance” to disarm, but gave no deadline and said U.N. weapons inspectors must have more time to finish their work.

Insisting it had healed the rift over U.S. calls for military action against Iraq, the EU emergency summit nevertheless left significant divisions, with some states saying the United Nations could still disarm Iraq peacefully.

“War is not inevitable. Force should be used only as a last resort. It is for the Iraqi regime to end this crisis by complying fully with the demands of the Security Council,” the 15 nations said in a statement.

This could be a really bad idea. Since the media is part of the Left, they will be likely to repeat their performance in the Vietnam War and report only the negative stories. Having a hostile foreign network like Al Jazeera with our troops is an even worse idea.

If World War II had been covered like the Vietnam War we’d be speaking German now.

For the first time since World War II and on a scale never before seen in the American military, journalists covering any United States attack on Iraq will have assigned slots with combat and support units and accompany them throughout the conflict.

The media mobilization, requiring vast logistical planning of its own, involves at least 500 reporters, photographers and television crew members — about 100 of them from foreign and international news organizations, including the Arab network Al Jazeera.

It promises to offer the American public and the world at large a front row seat to a war that could begin within weeks. It also raises complex new questions about journalistic rules of engagement, like how to make sure a family back home does not get the first notification that a relative has been wounded or killed by seeing it on television.

The governor of Illinois didn’t grant clemency on a case-by-case basis, and by doing so he let murderers escape their sentences.

Bono is presumed to be part of the Left, which confuses “peace” with appeasement.

Given that previous winners of the Nobel “Peace” Prize include Martin Luther King, Jr. (backed the Communist victory in Indochina), Le Duc Tho (knew his country would break the treaty for which he received the award), and Jimmy Carter (foreign policies led to a string of wars), this award should no longer be considered prestigous.

OSLO (Reuters) - The governor of the U.S. state of Illinois who spared all inmates on death row, Pope John Paul, a Cuban dissident and Irish rock star Bono are among a near-record 150 nominees for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.

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This was true in the Vietnam War as well; the leaders of the so-called “anti-war” demonstrations wanted the Vietnamese Communists to win. The Communist victory for which they demonstrated resulted in ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and genocide rather than the peasant democracies the thought would replace the “puppet” regimes.

In this conflict there are only two sides: On the one side stand Saddam and his regime, on the other the peoples of Iraq. When you stand with one you necessarily stand against the other. The “antiwar” label doesn't change that fact. Let us recall that the same label was used, by the same naïve souls misled by the same scoundrels, when the world was debating the use of force to liberate the peoples of Bosnia and Kosovo. And the same trick themes, used then, are used now. “Let's give diplomacy another chance,” Francois Mitterrand urged for much of the 1990s. During that time a quarter million Bosnian Muslims were massacred, and a million driven out of their homes. Diplomacy was also given “another chance” while the Rambouillet Treaty was negotiated with Slobodan Milosevic. The price? Up to 10,000 Kosovar Muslims dead.

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I believe that Chelsea Clinton is studying for her masters at Oxford, but I doubt that she’s participating in this movement.

OXFORD, England--A specter is haunting college campuses--the specter of student activism. But this isn't quite what you might think. To be sure, the most vocal activists are those who oppose the use of force to disarm Iraq and enforce the will of the United Nations. But there is also a growing student movement dedicated to the promotion of democracy and human rights in countries where brutal tyrants crush the human spirit. As the founders of the Oxford Democracy Forum (OxDem), we think the time has come to let both America and its allies know where the next generation stands.

 The Pro-Saddam Mob

We know we’re going to get complaints about that headline. But if you think “antiwar” is not pro-Saddam, kindly answer Barbara Amiel’s question: “If this were a genuine anti-war demonstration, why, along with demands on the British and Americans, would there be no demands of the other party to the conflict--Iraq?” These people may say they think arms are for hugging, but the inescapable logic of their position is that thugs are for arming.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq on Sunday gloated over the global outpouring of opposition to the U.S. threat of attack, saying anti-war demonstrations in dozens of countries signaled an Iraqi victory and “the defeat and isolation of America.”

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Granted, not all protesters are consciously pro-Saddam or anti-American. Indeed, to judge by the placards on display, a significant number of the self-styled peaceniks are totally insensate. A Reuters photo shows someone in London's Hyde Park holding a sign that reads PEACE IN OUR TIME--apparently oblivious to the historical meaning of this phrase, which was Neville Chamberlain's slogan for appeasing Hitler. …

… Blogger Mark Aveyard shows a Tallahassee, Fla., protester's sign (second photo) that reads WHO NEEDS OIL? I RIDE THE BUS. Notes Aveyard: “Apparently the buses in Tallahassee run on magic pixie dust.” …

… And the Right-Thinking.com blog (scroll down about two-thirds of the page) shows a guy carrying a placard that reads (quoting verbatim): “Killing Baby's and Woman With Lazer Guided Missiles is Stupid. No Smart Bombs Please.”

Thus showing how clueless these people are.

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 The Pro-Saddam Mob

Canada's National Post manages to find perhaps the dumbest man alive, a guy who thinks dogs are human. The Post reports on Gustavo, a dog that is in Baghdad along with a group of “human shields,” far-right (or is it far-left?) nuts who've gone to Baghdad to protest against the liberation of Iraq. The paper quotes one Kenneth Webb, “a dreadlocked vegan and fellow human shield,” who says: “You know, I personally don't agree with a dog as a human shield. I mean, what choice does it have?”

Graham, Patrick. “‘I mean, what choice does it have?’: Gustavo the ‘canine shield’ is conscripted into protest.” National Post (Canada). February 17, 2003.

Reckless endangerment at a minimum; and, if the shooting starts, cruelty to animals.

Better idea: take a rottweiler to bite Saddam’s backside.

 The Pro-Saddam Mob

But there was a lot of undisguised anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, too. In New York, Daily News columnist Michael Daly reports, some protesters taunted city firemen, calling them “fascists.” The Right-Thinking.com album shows one sign declaring "Israel Is the Problem" and another with a Hitler-style mustache drawn over a photo of President Bush.

Calling the heroes of 9/11 “fascists” sounds about right for these types, who see anyone who opposes socialism as “fascist.”

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Sister sites FranceStinks.com and GermanyStinks.com are chock full of weasel news, humor and even an online store where you can buy shirts emblazoned with a logo showing the Eiffel Tower or the Brandenburg Gate with a slash through it. The sites are urging Americans to participate in a “tea party” by flushing French and German products down the toilet at the stroke of midnight on March 4, Fat Tuesday (“no ‘Mardi Gras’ around here”).

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London's Daily Mirror, the hysterically pro-Saddam tabloid, visited Jimmy Carter in Plains, Ga., and reports Carter “is backing the Daily Mirror’s Not in My Name campaign.” Quoth Jimmah: “You’re doing a good job. I am glad about that. War is evil.” The Mirror describes Carter as “the only US president since 1945 never to order American soldiers into war.” Some of us are old enough to remember the wages of this wimpishness: the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the mad mullahs’ victory in Iran, among other things.

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While the birth rate of white Europeans is below the replacement rate, Duke’s snake oil isn’t the solution for anti-white sentiment.

Libertarian and socialist is an oxymoron.

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My day in New York City began in much the same way as it would end several hours later. Around 11 a.m. Saturday, I arrived at the First Avenue site of the massive “anti-war” rally organized by the Communist peace-front organization United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ). The expressed sentiments that I heard and read within my first three minutes there, would be echoed time and again by the many guest speakers addressing the crowd that day. …

Among the many items available was Proletariat Revolution, a 24-page socialist pamphlet whose very first sentence was a harbinger of everything that would follow during that afternoon: “The working class and every opponent of imperialism must join in action to stop the murderous attacks on Iraq by the US imperialist war machine.” …

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In the speeches that followed, this abhorrence of Bush was closely paralleled by a vehement hatred directed against the United States; a belief that our country has historically been, and continues to be, uniquely evil; a conviction that America, more than any other nation, threatens peace and justice on earth. Among the first to speak was a Christian minister who said, “We are the only nation to use an atomic bomb against another nation. For that, Lord, we ask your forgiveness.” He did not, of course, mention the historical context in which that weapon was used; the ferocity of the unyielding Japanese enemy we faced at the time; the alternative of sacrificing the lives of perhaps a million more Americans, not to mention ten to twenty million Japanese. …

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Shortly thereafter, NAACP chairman Julian Bond took the microphone to denounce, in plain English, America’s “pursuit of empire, not world peace.” He called Bush’s Iraq policy “a political strategy designed to win the recent mid-term political elections.” Bush’s talk of launching a pre-emptive strike, he said, is “erasing our moral standing across the globe.” …

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Next, Phyllis Bennis of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies proclaimed, “The war that George Bush is threatening is not a war against weapons of mass destruction. If it happens, it will be a war for empire and for oil.” …

The crowd was then treated to the oratory of New York City Councilman Charles Barron, the self-described non-racist who recently announced that he would like to slap a white person “just for my mental health.” As is his wont, Barron chose to assess the Iraq situation from a “black” perspective. “I want to say on behalf of black youth in New York and the Latino youth of this nation, we will not go to war for a selected president who wasn’t even elected!” “We don’t care if you [Bush] put forth Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell,” he continued. “They do not represent the black community.” In the eyes of Barron and his ilk, Rice and Powell are mere mascots exploited by racist Republicans, inauthentic blacks who are traitors to their race. …

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Every rally has its superstars, of course, and this was no exception. It was now time to hear from the mastermind of the Tawana Brawley fraud; the man whose vile rhetoric and frivolous charges of racism are legendary; the man who referred to the late Khalid Muhammad, whose racist diatribes were even too incendiary for Louis Farrakhan to condone, as “a very articulate and courageous brother.” Yes, presidential candidate Al Sharpton stepped to the podium to warn that Bush “is pursuing a manifest destiny plan that will not secure America, but will put the whole world at risk.” It is wrong, he said, “to send our children to foreign soil to protect oil interests.” It is immoral, he emphasized, for Bush to pursue his “philosophy of international domination.”

Congressman Dennis Kucinich was also on hand. …

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee spoke next. …

For a slight change of pace, a Muslim American Society representative complained about how “tired” he and his fellow Muslims are “of being discriminated against” – not in the oppressive Islamic world, of course, but right here in the US. …

A short time later, UFPJ co-chair Leslie Cagan, who had not been expected to attend the rally due to illness, made a surprise appearance and, with a raspy voice, managed to shout a stream of invectives against New York’s mayor and police department for having denied her request to stage a protest march, rather than a stationary rally. “Shame on the police department!” she shrieked.

Before long, it was time for the denunciations of U.S. foreign policy to expand far beyond the borders of Iraq. Harry Belafonte took the occasion to condemn America’s past military actions specifically in Vietnam, Grenada, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, “and many [other] places in the world.” Thereafter, two speakers representing New York’s People of Color Against War extended their “warm, militant greetings” to the crowd, and spoke about “the impact of US militarism on freedom in the Philippines.” A Colombian woman named Vividad Cordoba proclaimed, “I’m coming from a country that is a victim of US foreign policy.” Still another speaker blamed America for its “unjust” policies in “Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Grenada, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia.” The director of the Southern Peace Research and Education Center said that not only should the US not attack Iraq, but that it was now time to put the Saddam issue behind us and “lift the sanctions on the Iraqi people.” America’s “three vices [of] militarism, materialism, and racism,” she said, preclude our country from claiming any moral authority to decide who should possess the weapons of genocide.

… The day’s loudest, most frenzied greeting was reserved for the infamous Communist and black revolutionary “Sister Angela Davis,” as she was introduced. …

… Actor Danny Glover received many rousing ovations during his scathing denunciation of the US, particularly when he asserted, “Our right to dissent . . . has been hijacked by this administration of liars and murderers” …

There were numerous others who spoke as well, including folk singer Pete Seeger, actor Ossie Davis, and playwright Tony Kushner. A representative of the Socialist Organization of New York was received especially well, as was the International Secretary of the Black Radical Congress. Susan Sarandon introduced a man who, though he lost his son in the 9/11 attacks, exhorted President Bush to “stop the headlong rush to war, anger, and destruction.” Though he did not explain why a twelve-year wait for Iraq to comply with its obligations should be defined as “a headlong rush to war,” he chastised America for not promoting “the equitable sharing of the world’s resources among all peoples.” …

Reverend Martin Luther King III added his voice to the cacophony of clichés, reminding us that “you do not stop terrorism by terrorizing others”; “only nonviolence can stamp out violence”; and “just because you have the biggest gun does not mean you must use it.” Larry Holmes of A.N.S.W.E.R., the “peace” front linked to the socialist Workers World Party, said, “We don’t want to fight a war for oil. We don’t want to fight a war for colonies. We don’t want to fight a war for imperialism.” As an aside, he added, “We [also] got to get that blockade against Cuba down.”

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The overriding anti-American venom pervading the entire rally manifested itself not only in the rhetoric, but also in the remarkable dearth of American flags. I observed only one such flag on display at any point during the day, whereas I saw tens of thousands of placards denouncing the US and the Bush administration.

“Proletariat” is a term for working people used by Karl Marx and his ideological successors.

The belief that America is responsible for all the evil in the world stems from Lenin’s theory of imperialism, possibly by way of Franz Fanon’s anti-white The Wretched of The Earth.

Julian Bond worked for the Vietnamese Communist victory in the Sixties. Note the use of the term “empire” to describe a world of constitutional democracies and free market economies.

Barron is probably one of those people who think that antisocial behavior is an authentic expression of black culture. His anti-American remarks and attitude validate the segregationist assertion that the civil rights movement was communistic.

No surprise that Sharpton showed up.

If the American Muslim clergy would denounce the terrorists it would help to dispell this stereotype. Unfortunately, around 80% of the mosques here are funded by Saudi Arabia.

Communist Cuba nearly started World War III.

The Chilean constitution had no legal way of removing Allende from office, even though he had lost the consent of the governed. Had he stayed in power Chile would be another Cuba instead of a prosperous democracy.

Angela Davis is a Sixties retread. My recollection is that her advocates back then said she wasn’t a Communist.

MLK, Jr. worked for the Communist victory in Indochina, so his son is merely following in his footsteps in supporting the “progressive” cause of keeping Saddam in power.

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CAIRO, Egypt -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said in a rare interview that he believed the American and British determination to make war on Iraq could collapse under the weight of anti-war sentiment in the two countries.

“Time is in our favor, and we have to buy more time hoping that the U.S.-British alliance might disintegrate because of ... the pressure of public opinion on American and British streets,” Saddam told the Egyptian weekly Al-Osboa in the interview published Sunday.

Saddam appears to be a good student of Ho Chi Minh’s roadmap for defeating America.

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Freedom for Palestine, of course, could come the day the Arab world accepts the existence of a Jewish state. There could have been an independent Palestinian state as early as the Peel Commission in 1937 or the UN partition plan in 1948, if only the Arabs had said yes to co-existence with Israel. But anyone who has read the literature of the MAB knows that now, as then, “Palestinian freedom” for the MAB is achieved only at the expense of eliminating a Jewish state in the Middle East. All that the complaints of the British Board of Deputies had done was to make the MAB respectable to the ignorant.

In the end, under the guise of peace, this march was essentially an anti-America, anti-free enterprise, anti-Israel display. A similar approach appeared to have taken hold in the various other “peace” marches in Tokyo, Athens, Paris, Berlin and Madrid.

Eliminating Israel could easily result in a Twenty-First Century Holocaust.

In other words, socialit

His appearance sparked a protest by a number of UT student groups including Texans for Israel, Young Conservatives of Texas, Students for American Values, and the Texas Review Society-affiliated H.L. Mencken Society. Other protestors from the Austin community, including members of FreeRepublic.com, were also present. These students and concerned citizens engaged in debate with attendees, handed out literature authored by David Horowitz, President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, exposing Chomsky as anti-American, and waved American flags to show solidarity with the President.

Chomsky is a dreadful apologist for Pol Pot’s Communist Party of Kampuchea, more popularly known by the French expression for Cambodian Communists, Khmer Rouge.

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Regrettably, in the months since September 11, 2001, people who have made no secret of their sympathy for terrorists, provided them financial support, excused their murderous attacks and/or sought to impede the prosecution of the war against them have repeatedly been put in the company of the President. In other words, individuals and organizations who appear to be “with the terrorists” have time and again been allowed to be with the President in the White House and elsewhere. For example:

• On September 17, 2001, President Bush paid a visit to the mosque in Washington. There he was photographed flanked by Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR has long been an admirer and public defender of terrorist organizations whose attacks against even innocent women and children it sees as legitimate acts of “liberation.” Awad has personally declared, "I am a supporter of the Hamas movement."

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It is very much in the President's interest -- and the Nation's -- that moderate, law-abiding, peace-loving and patriotic American Muslims be embraced and empowered by the Bush Administration and all those who support it in waging a war on terror, not on Islam. To do so, however, the Administration must not allow those who are “with” its enemies in that struggle to continue being with the President and his team.

The fear is that Bush has abandoned his principles in the name of “diversity,” which is itself a “progressive cause.

In failing to recognize who his opponents are Bush is acting like Lyndon Johnson.

It is therefore essential that Americans understand the nature of the rift between America and Western Europe (not Eastern Europe, which thanks to its suffering under Communist evil, understands evil and values America) -- a rift that will only widen unless one adopts the values of the other. For at this moment, there are two civilizational wars taking place: Islamist hostility to Western liberty and European hostility to American values.

Why this European hostility?

First, Europe believes in socialism, while America believes in capitalism. This difference can hardly be overstated. Most Western Europeans believe in socialism as fervently as religious Christians, Jews and Muslims believe in their respective religions. To many Americans, socialism is only an economic system, but for Western Europeans it has largely replaced Christianity as their faith.

Adopting socialism is the goal of American “progressives.”

No surprise here, but Prager doesn’t realized that the Religious Left has combined socialism with Christian doctrine.

More than half a million people took part in antiwar protests in Britain last weekend. Two who didn't were B. Khalaf, a neurologist in London, and Rania Kashi, a college student. Both are Iraqis, and both are convinced the marchers were marching for tyranny, not for peace.

“Where were you when thousands of Iraqi people were killed by Saddam's forces at the end of the Gulf war?“ asked Khalaf, who was a doctor in the Iraqi army during the Gulf War, in a letter to the Guardian. “Only now when the war is to reach Saddam has everybody become so concerned about human life in Iraq.“

The “anti-war” types only concern themselves with the fates of people who are politically correct.

The Bush Administration has been diligent in conveying its friendliness toward Muslims and for this the president is to be commended. It would be both morally and strategically wrong to suggest that the war on terror is a war against all Muslims. But in seeking out American Muslims to praise and embrace, the president has been led into a hornet's nest because the most conspicuous Muslim American organizations - though not necessarily the most representative -- have intimate ties to Saudi money and are often only one step away from terrorists and their supporters.

Questionable groups have obtained access to the White House, the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and other government agencies. They've had their pictures taken with George Bush have in turn been able to parlay these into enhanced stature within the Muslim community. Some of these groups have enjoyed the patronage of a key conservative activist with strong ties to the White House. Grover Norquist has facilitated meetings with the President, cabinet secretaries, and agency heads.

An intelligent policy would be to convey friendliness towards loyal Muslims who oppose terrorism.

Link to Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.’s column on this subject

TOKYO — North Korea threatened today to abandon the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War if the United States launches sanctions to punish the country for trying to develop nuclear weapons.

The threat came a day after The New York Times reported that the Bush administration is developing plans for sanctions against Pyongyang that would include halting its weapons shipments and cutting off the flow of money from Koreans living in Japan. Such money is crucial to North Korea and helps keep its economy afloat.

Since there was never a peace agreement, the Korean War never ended in a legal sense. North Korea now wants to resume hostilities rather than honor the agreement with us to forego developing nuclear weapons. The problem is that since North Korea broke its last agreement with us we can’t trust it to keep another.

Carter did order the ill-fated raid to free the hostages.

Carter’s foreign policy disasters in Iran and Nicaragua led to the Iran-Iraq War, the war between the Sandinistas and Contras, the Gulf War, and the forthcoming operation against Iraq.

The “great worldwide movement dedicated to preventing war” is an extreme Left-wing movement.

He never ordered US troops into battle and believes talk and negotiation are better than war. He was a worthy winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

So what he says matters. And President Carter, with all his experience and wisdom, opposes the bombing and invasion of Iraq.

He supports the great worldwide movement dedicated to preventing war.

The most revealing aspect of the anti-war march in London was what you did not see. You did not see any messages to Saddam Hussein or criticism of Iraqi policy.

These earnest seekers of peace, with so many signs denouncing George W Bush and Tony Blair, had nothing to say to Saddam Hussein; no request to please co-operate with the UN inspectors. Not one small poster asking Saddam to disarm or destroy his weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps somewhere in that million people there were some bravely asking him to “Leave Iraq and prevent war,” but I could not find them.

If this were a genuine anti-war demonstration, why, along with demands on the British and Americans, would there be no demands of the other party to the conflict - Iraq? Commentators on the march were taken by the good order of it. I was taken by the sheer wickedness or naivete.

To the demonstrators “peace” means “progressive causes.” The preservation of Saddam’s regime is a “progressive cause,” which is to say a Leftist cause.

You could have asked the same question of the so-called “anti-war” demonstrations of the Vietnam Era.

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