Of course Leftists, including Lit-Ideas Leftists, wouldn't portray themselves as Podhoretz and Cohen have done. Podhoretz address this on page 100: "Of course, the claim was that most such people were neither pro-Saddam nor anti-American: all they wanted was to 'give peace a chance.' But this claim was belied by the slogans, the body language, the speeches, and the manifestos of the 'peace' party. Though hatred of America may not have been universal among opponents of American military action, it was obviously very widespread and very deep. And though other considerations (pacifist sentiment, concern about civilian casualties, contempt for George W. Bush, faith in the UN, etc.) were at work, these factors had no trouble coexisting harmoniously with extreme hostility to the United States." Lawrence