Liberals complained that we walked away from Afghanistan after the Soviets left. So Bush is willing to stay afterwards, stabilize Iraq and rebuild the country - and now liberals complain about the cost.
Liberals complained that sanctions are killing thousands of Iraqi children. So Bush is ending the regime that takes the UN oil-for-food money and builds palaces and weapons - and the liberals now demand that sanctions be given more time to work.
Liberals complained that we're only going into Iraq for the oil. So Bush and Blair are willing to let the UN administer the Iraqi oil revenues - but the "No Blood for Oil" signs persist.
So, in other words, the conduct of this war eliminates many of the old liberal complaints about the use of American power - yet the protests continue and the shrill rhetoric rises to a fever pitch. So what, then, is the actual problem with this intervention? Why does Mike Farrell, who supported the Kosovo intervention where Clinton took one side in a low-grade civil conflict and made matters worse, now vehemently oppose Bush and action against a dictator Ferrell himself acknowledges to be horrific? Why was action against Kosovo and Iraq by Clinton acceptable to the left, without UN Security Council resolutions, but Bush has failed at diplomacy when he attacks an enemy over the threat of a French veto of ANY possible course of action save capitulation to Saddam?
The answer is simple - the liberals simply cannot stand America using military force to promote its own interests, and will simply come up with a new list of complaints when the old ones are satisfied by the current plan of action - and then complain that the Bush Administration does not listen to what they are saying, so they can maintain their sense of righteous indignance to an American government who does not listen to their demands, primarily by constantly changing those demands.
I believe that it was Ann Coultor who said that leftists only oppose wars that are in the interest of the US, and they support war where there is none.
Mark