In recent months, I've grown increasingly frustrated with my fellow left-leaning compatriots. I think this feeling reached its breaking point when the Iraqi delegate to the U.N. Security Council extended his government's kind thanks to the many thousands of protesters inside the United States and around the world.

I did not vote for George W. Bush. But I am not going to oppose everything his administration does for the sake of my Democratic Party voter registration card. Many of my liberal brothers and sisters seem so quick to make knee-jerk reactions against anything our government does or says.

It's a shame that a large portion of Americans seem to trust Saddam Hussein more than they trust Colin Powell. And I must have missed the memo from liberal headquarters that brought anti-Semitism back into style. I've read of a Jewish activist turned away from a war protest because he was perceived as too "pro-Israel." What a crime to support Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. Left-wing activists protest Israel's "brutal repression" of the Palestinian people. But Israel has shown remarkable restraint in the face of a nearly constant assault launched by a society that raises their children to be suicide bombers, whose families are given financial rewards by none other than Saddam Hussein.

Next time you're at a peace rally, consider who the true enemies of world peace are. I don't need some white dude with dreadlocks telling me that "America is the real international terrorist" while Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat are still in power leading their corrupt killing machines.