Orson Scott Card weighs in on the hypocrisy of the anti-war folks, why Bush scares the Left, and the McCarthy-like tactics of the Left.

In other words, our war against Iraq from 1991 never ended. Certainly that is Iraq's declared position -- they consider themselves at war with us, and have been shooting at us since 1991.
So the question of what Iraq has done to us is easy to answer.
But when Sarandon and Garafolo ask that question, it is pure politics -- and pure hypocrisy. Not only do they know the answer, they also don't even believe in the question.
Nither Sarandon or Garafolo really thinks that we have to wait for an evil tyrant to attack America directly before we have a responsibility to take action -- including military action -- to stop them.
Why do I know this? Because neither of them said a single, solitary word against Bill Clinton when he bombed Serbia.
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Sarandon and Garafolo are not anti-war. They are merely anti-Bush, and are invoking our collective fake memories of the "noble" anti-war movement of the sixties as a stick to beat him with.
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Why? Because George W. Bush is the most frightening President the Left could imagine, domestically or abroad.

He frightens them because he is actually a moderate, a centrist. He wants to serve all the people, not just narrow special interests. He actually believes in egalitarian, non-racist policies; he really means it when he talks about "compassionate conservatism."

Just as Clinton de-fanged the Right by coopting all their economic policies, so Bush de-fangs the Left by embracing their populist goals (though not their methods).
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They call him stupid, though clearly he is not. They call him a fascist, a racist, a fanatic -- precisely because he is none of those things. They pound at us with lies and name-calling about him and his policies, because they are terrified that people will realize that by and large his policies are good and decent ones that are likely to work pretty well.
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What the American Left doesn't seem to realize is that they are behaving exactly like Joseph McCarthy and the red-baiting fanatics of the early 1950s. They fling monstrous charges against decent people, hoping to rouse the anger of the people. And for a time they gain political advantage by doing so.
--The Ornery American