In a way, I disagree. These people object to the very existence of the American system of free enterprise and capitalism. They think because they are "enlightened", they shouldn't have to do anything as banal as working for a living - they should just sit around the neighborhood coffee house and have the government mail them checks. They are using the war as a pretext to express their anger at the United States in general, and to trash and vandalize the system they hate. The cause of "peace" gives them cover. And their leadership is well-funded by international Communist groups, even if many of the rank-and-file don't know that. It's the same bunch we saw protesting globalization in Seattle a while back - malignant professional slackers.
It's easy to see how the Nazi party got started in Weimar Germany. Germans were disgusted with this same type of leftist poseur trashing their streets and looked on in approval as the SA marched in to crack the Communists' heads. Let's hope these actions aren't a precursor to a similar backlash in America - I don't think they will be since at the end of the day, support for the protestors is tiny.
I pretty much agree with just about all of what you say, especially the above.
Only I do think the commie organizers at least understand what Hussein is. Many of the "rank and file" idiot protestors may justify their idiocy by pretending to themselves that Bush is just as bad or worse (some of the interviews of "human shields" indicate this).
It's just that historically, socialists have always been ready to "eliminate" entire segments of humanity in their pursuit of what they refer to as the "common good." I just have the idea that these protestors' callous disregard, in their pursuit of their agenda, for the lives of the ordinary Iraqi, or for the victims of Muslim terrorism, demonstrates that typical socialist willingness to dispense with those who may be considered to stand in the way of their "common good."
It's chilling.