Me too.... like the quote on the news this morning from one of the protesters who "blames the US involvement for the recent loss of life in the hotel in Baghdad". She wants our troops to pull out now.
Does she have any idea the mayhem that would result if we ~did~ just up and do that?
What they believe that they will never say is that they think it is better to leave Saddam Hussein and his regime in power to have his will with the people who live in Iraq and around Iraq. They will never say it, but they believe that with all their hearts. Because in their world of moral equivalency, Bush (America) killing terrorists and despots is the same thing as terrorists or despots killing innocents. It's just another offshoot of the polluted morality that says executing a murderer is the same thing as the murder in the first place (something they believe as well).
They truly believe that America exerting its power, particularly under a Republican President, against tyrants and despots is every bit as evil as Saddam gassing the Kurds, or raping Kuwait or torturing tens of thousands of his own people. They believe this because it is comfortable for them: They are fearful, sedentary and wealthy. They believe everyone, everywhere has the same basic motivations they do (except conservatives in America, they are incorrigably evil). They believe that if you just think something away -- something unpleasant, dangerous -- then it just has no power over you.
They've constructed an imaginary world for themselves, a very comfortable one where logic, reason and, most importantly, reality never needs to intrude upon their lives. They, the western leftists, are the most religious, faith-based people that has ever existed. The problem for them is that their faith is based on a comfortable fiction, a vapor thinner than their own thoughts.
Reality always wins in the end...always defeats their philosophy. Not that even reality will ever change their minds. Neville Chamberlain was still defending appeasement as a policy to the end of his life.