The dividing line isn't between socialists and democrats ....the dividing line is between those who supported a murderous invasion of another country as part of an ongoing "long war" and those who opposed the invasion.
Those "leftwing "armchair bombers reserved all their venom and vitriol for the anti war movement which mobilised millions to oppose the slaughter.
It is difficult ..no impossible... to make common cause with those who supported the sending of cruise missiles, the use of tens of thousands of depleted uranium artillery shells and the dropping of high explosives on residential areas.
The claim that the anti war movement is anti American is totally false when there were notable Americans like Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky [and the Dixie Chicks ] agitating against the war.
The anti war movement united on three basic issues in Britain
1 No to an invasion of Iraq
2Defence of moslems and other minorities in any racist backlash following the horror of the Twin Towers
3Defence of civil liberties such as the right to trial and haebus corpus.
This wasnt factionalism but a united front of all those opposed to war and blood for oil.
Ifor