Quote from Madison:
can a marcher hate the Iraqi people?
Maybe. Or maybe he can just hate himself and his own country so much that he remains blind to the evil he's implicitly supporting.
that the operation is successful implies that opposing it is wrong?
Um.... hmmmm.... let me think about it... maybe if successful means liberating horrifically oppressed people and protecting ourselves in the process, then, uh yeah - opposing it was objectively wrong. If opposing it means insisting on believing everyone who had something to say against your country and its leaders, and refusing to believe anyone who had something to say in favor of them, then, yeah, there was probably some moral culpability there. Or stupidity.
must admit they have done a very good spin job - they have succeeded in large part in blending the distinct issues of 'liberation'...
Why the quotation marks? I suppose you have some difficulty applying the word to the state of no longer having to worry about a Stalinist dictatorship that used torture, murder, intimidation, theft, rape, and arbitrary imprisonment as a systematic policy?
... of oppressed people and American-funded preemptive war without evidentiary justification...
I'm pretty tired of pointing out how frequently YOU PEOPLE (if you'll excuse the phrase) state your beliefs as though they are facts, especially when you've given no one any reason to give you the benefit of the doubt.
and in defiance of world opinion
... if world opinion jumped off a cliff, would you? If world opinion stood on the side of a fascist dictator and his murderous clique, would you? Oh yeah, you would...
meanwhile, all the 'wmd', aluminum tube, chemical weapon stuff is down the memory hole... well done
Please make a note of this statement. In that rescuing the Iraqi people and removing a base for terrorism, among all of the other reasons for fighting, don't move you, I presume this last statement means that if you get all the evidence you or anyone could stand, or stand to ignore, you'll THEN finally admit that you were wrong?