Where were these protesters when Saddam was killing hundreds of thousands of his people, torturing and imprisoning millions of his people, and completely denying any of them any civile rights whatsoever? Yes, people have died in order to overturn this thugocracy, and we grieve for every innocent life, particularly those of our real American heroes (i.e., not John Kerry.) But the ends justify the means. A free, stable Iraq is a difficult but necessary step in the war on terror.
You are forgetting the subtle racism of the left. When brown people die in foreign countries, they bit their lips and say, "Gee, that's a shame. Someone should think about doing something." Conservatives look at the same suffering and say, "What should we do and when should we do it?" The libs don't care about non-voting foreigners croaking.
Where are they in regards to the Sudan/Darfur mass killings?