Here's one for the leftist-Islamist protest coalition to cry foul over:

At a reception sponsored by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies late last week, the 20-member Iraqi Women's Delegation met 20 American women who were described as Washington's female "movers and shakers."...One of the delegates, Lina Abood, who was a candidate for Iraq's Governing Council, described her fellow delegates as "strong women."

...The women expressed appreciation over and over again and talked with deep sorrow about the Iraqis who were executed, gassed, or mass murdered. They don't even want to think about the torture chambers and the unmarked mass graves documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Pentagon files — 18 tons of documents consisting of five million pages of atrocities. For the women in the delegation, the stories of Saddam's brutality are all too true, as is the fact that women, especially, were targeted by the regime.

For them, talk of peaceful solutions is unrealistic; their personal experience belies any attempt at "containment" or "compromise." Several of them were born during the terrorist regime and have never known peace in their homeland; all of them were affected personally by Saddam's horror. They know that they cannot stop the Baathists without the United States' military force. They know that they cannot institute democracy alone; they need assistance from U.S. peace forces.

America: a nation that forcibly removes genocidal dictators to institute self-government, free markets, religious freedom and equality under the law. Such imperialists we are!

Speaking of protests, they were a bust yesterday. Istanbul attacks notwithstanding, the media hasn't said much about protests today - and the afternoon has already begun to wane in London. Shilling for dictators just isn't what it used to be.