Look Doug play fair.   

Noone was marching "to express their opposition to disarming Saddam." And you know that. Maybe you beieve that the effect of the marching might be to make him less likely to be disarmed, but that is a very very different thing. So stick you accusing us of the things that you believe to be the case, not of things that you don't believe to be the case.

You won't find me accusing you of wanting to kill children. But if I argued like you have been there, I would be saying things exactly like that. And I'd be lying if I did so, and I try not to lie.

We were marching to express our opposition to bombing ordinary people just like us who happen to live in Iraq, under a bloody unpleasant government.

And we were marching in the hope that the efforts of the inspection team, sent to Iraq with teh support (so it seemed) of your government and mine, would succeed in achieving a situation in which there would be no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, even if there are any now.

A few months ago you were saying on the Mudcat that you believed that what Bush wanted was to use the threat of war as a way of forcing Saddam to cooperate, and that there wouldn't be a war But now that when precisely that appears to be beginning to happen, you want to blow the whistle for a war that you were so sure would not happen and need not happen.