[nicky g]

"So for all the skeptics: maybe most Iraqis want to be liberated from Saddam."

I'm certain most of them do. The anti-war case is that: the war is illegal, the war will kill more people than it saves, the war will destabilise the region, the war will increase arab hatred of the west and make terrorism more likely, the motives of the warmongers are not humanitarian and they will treat Iraq shabbily after the war. Hopefully we are wrong on all those things. I continue to have some worries: for example, the largest single party in Iraq other than the ruling Ba'ath is the outlawed Dawa party, a Shia party which is aligned with the government of Iran. I doubt that pro-Iranian religious Shias will much appreciate a long American occupation, or that the US will allow them to take part in running the country. They also came out against the war. But who knows.