Instead of starting a new thread, I'll post here a link to a hard hitting commentary (not always fair, but amusing to read):

This moral vacuum on Iraq

the far left have awarded the alliance of the ex-Baathists and the Islamists the morally loaded nomenclature 'resistance'. ...
the Irish left, blinded by unthinking anti-Americanism, took the easy option.

Rather than listen to the demands of the Iraqi opposition desperate to free their country from Saddam's oppression, they retreated into the protest comfort zone, wrapping themselves up in the blankets of pacifism and worse still, self-righteous isolationism.

Wolfgang