So I went to the antiwar rally today...

[jaguar]

....totalitarianism (which we Americans are NOT practicing and never shall, in spite of any ill-informed opinions to the contrary)

Apart from active support (arms, money) for:
Idi Amin
Hugo Banzer
Roberto Suazo Cordova
Ferdinand Marcos
Augusto Pinochet
Saddam Hussien
Suharto
Jorge Videla
Mohammed Ul-Haq (an earlier pakistani dictator propped up because Pakistan was a front for another pointless war on a concept - drugs)
Mobutu Seko
Hassan II
The House of Saud
Ngo Dinh Diem (classic example of cure worse than disease)
The Sultan of Brunei

That's just off the top of my head with checks for spelling. America is no fascist state, hyperbole aside but it helps and has helped keep much of the world under the thumb of some of the nastiest pieces of work around.

Those Iraqis you speak of marching towards democratic government - is that the South, controlled politically by the SCIRI - Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (since the people voted for it) and linked to the Badr Brigade and Sadr's lot or the north (excluding Kurdistan, lets call a fork a fork) which is under the control of Sunni militants?