The Pacifist Weblog. Nevertheless, from Sam Smith’s Progressive Review, “…just a few reasons a non-pacifist might oppose the war:

• It will just lead to worse problems including increased guerilla actions.
  

• It is a war we can’t win.
  

• It is not a just war.
  

• It is unconstitutional.
  

• It violates international law including the UN Charter.
  

• It is wrecking our constitutional system.
  

• It is a high risk act of mindless machismo
  

• It is poorly planned by incompetent and corrupt leaders.
  

• It is giving the nation a mass case of agoraphobia, making us prisoners of our own fears.
  

• It is a war without defined objectives, a defined enemy, or a definition of victory.
  

• It is a war we can’t win without simultaneously ending our imperial role in the Muslim world.
  

• It will badly hurt the American economy.
  

• It is a war premised on the assumption that 6,000 innocent Americans’ lives are worth more than the 500,000 innocent Iraqi children’s lives lost during the Iraqi embargo.
  

• It is a war for unstated corrupt ends, including the interests of multinational oil companies.
  

Those who are labeling as pacifists all critics of the war don’t want to deal with such issues. Instead writers for major papers — such as Michael Kelly in the Washington Post and Scott Simon in the Wall Street Journal — create a deceitful dichotomy with some of the most intellectually dishonest arguments of recent times.” [via wood s lot]