I actually got one hippie to tacitly confess something fairly nasty at a party one night. We were talking about Central America and native Americans vs Whites and so forth. And I said, "You know, you say we took their land but they were not a unified people, they killed EACH OTHER and took the land from one another."
He said, "I don't care about that, we-"
And I broke in and said, "So you don't care if people die, just so long as it can't be traced to you."
And he just stood there for a minute, blinking, with his beer in his hand and his long dirty blond hair in his eyes. Then he said, "You have a way of putting things I've never heard before."
Bragging aside, this is the same mentality that these "anti-war" protestors are evincing. They know people have died by Saddam's hand, and that more WILL die. They aren't against people dying. They are against having anyone think they are somehow to blame, that's all. And they at least do sense on some level that people are always more ready to blame the US than Saddam. They at least are cognizant of that.