I won't call these folks Anti-American

Allowing protests like this one is part of a free society, so I don't think these folks are anti-American. But, with all the information about the horrors of Saddam's regime, with the evidence that significant numbers of the perpetrators of those horrors are still armed and dangerous, and with the clear conclusion that an American withdrawl would send Iraq into a dizzying whirlwind of violence, I will say that that these folks are anti-Iraqi. Their apparent belief that a few hundred American lives are more valuable than tens of thousands of Iraqi lives is grotesque.

As an aside, I find it a little disturbing that the Washington post is apparently calling the Iraq operation an "occupation" rather than a "rebuilding."
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 12:06 PM