Over analyzing is not a substitute for thinking
The anti-war movement hides behind a fog of analysis, but at the end of the fog, saddam is still inpower, he is still getting WMDs, the peole of Iraq are still oppressed, the region is still threatened, and the protestors use the vilest anti-American bigotry to make their wild and false claims.
One of the unfortunate results of war is that the comfortable grays of parsing no longer hold up.
germany, france and belgium have a choice to make, and the choice is not to continue whining about the self declared need to word parse.
History will pass you by.
Ed