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Antiwar pukes gear up in an attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

Washington Post:

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Peace groups have been relatively quiet in recent months, especially after President Bush's reelection. But antiwar leaders say they are on the verge of reemerging. Leaders of dozens of peace groups plan to meet in St. Louis this weekend to plot strategies for a new push against the war, from ad campaigns to long-term, grass-roots organizing. They plan to use March 19 and 20, the anniversary weekend of the war's start, as the beginning of an all-out effort to convince the public that the best course for Americans and Iraqis is for the war to end and the troops to come home.

"We're just in the beginning of this process; until recently, there hasn't been any conversation about ending the war," said Andrea Buffa, a spokeswoman for United for Peace and Justice, an umbrella group of more than 800 antiwar organizations.

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Antiwar organizers say that as dialogue about an exit strategy builds, part of their task is to keep reminding the public that the administration's rationale for invading Iraq was wrong -- that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction or working relationship with al Qaeda.

This is a strawman argument. Saddam could not account for his WMD as required by the terms of the cease fire he agreed to in 1991 and as required by numerous UN resolutions. The fact that the WMD has not been found only means that it is still unaccounted for. As for a working realtionship with al Qaeda, Zarqawi was clearly a wecome ally when Saddam was in power and he is obviously working closely witht he Baathis remnants of Saddam's regime and he is admitedly a member of al Qaeda. Before Zarqawi got bogged down in Iraq, he was working on a riacin attack in Western Europe that was foiled. To say that Saddam andthe Baathist had no working relationship with al Qaeda is to ignore what Zarqawi and bin Laden have both acknowledged.

What the antiwar movement is trying to prove is that bin Laden was correct when he said that the US did not have the stomach for war witht he terrorist. If the antiwar pukes are successful, al Qaeda will view Iraq as a major defeat of the US.