Remember that when you protest the liberation of Iraq, chance are you've insulted most Iraqis. Says Mohammed:

Let everyone and especially the pacifists and all who opposed the coalition that what happened was an operation to free the Iraqi people and eliminate a criminal gang that does not represent any body but itself and its narrow interests and that pauses a serious danger on our country and the others.

That was not a confrontation between two nations nor it was a conflict between different convictions, it was an operation to excise a malignant tumor that was about to destroy everything.

...That was not a war for sure because now I see clearly the others around us looking forward for similar change demanding strongly what we had. They’re getting murdered by their governments while they scream to get their freedom and this is only one of the results of this operation. Now they see the difference.
It hurts my ears to hear the stupid statements about the “death of innocents” and the “tragedies” that are happening now because everybody knows that these are nothing comparable to the tragedies and losses we suffered in the past and those were for nothing.

And let them know that we’re ready to sacrifice more if that is the price needed to secure and maintain our freedom. Where were those paid off voices when we were murdered in thousands? Where were their ugly voices when Saddam used poisons on innocents?

That was not a war but a hope we were all dreaming of and we will never forget the sacrifices of the others and what they offered in the sake of our freedom.

Has the left actually listened to the heartbeat of Iraq, now or over the last year? No, and that ignorance is just more evidence that the welfare of people - their rights, their dignity, their happiness - has never played a part in the "principled" arguments of the left's. What are they protesting? From appearances, the wounding of their intellectual pride.

LIFE WITHOUT SADDAM AND THE LEFT'S REGRET: James Lileks focuses on the "fringe" left and the people who literally celebrate the destruction of America, but the mainstream left and the Democratic Party are only a few gradations away - from those who openly slur the thirty-four-nation alliance and the struggle of free Iraqis to those who toy with the idea that America, and not terrorists, should be blamed for the Madrid bombings. They all draw from the same source.