March 20, 2005 will mark the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The war lasted only three weeks before Saddam dropped out of sight and into a spider-hole... but for some hopefuls, it will never end. I'm not talking about the Ba'athist thugs who plot and struggle to regain the power -- built on fear and murder -- that they held over the Iraqi people for so long. I'm talking about the looney anti-war Left, who will spend the next few weeks continuing to protest a war that toppled a dictator, ended decades of evil tyranny and brutality, freed and gave hope to tens of millions, began the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East... and ended almost as quickly as it began. Yes, they're protesting a war that's already over.

When you think about it, it's almost laughable -- when it's not pitiful, that is. Caught in the grip of rabid Bush-hatred, these so-called "progressives" ignore all signs of long hoped-for progress in the Middle East to excoriate its author for bringing it about! Elections and free speech in countries that (in many cases) have never known such things fail to impress the "Not In Our Name" crowd. Where will these "anti-war" folks be in a few decades? It's as if there were still people actively protesting US involvement in WWII, even in light of the fact that Hitler is gone, the world is safe from the threat of Nazi domination and Germany has become a peaceful democracy. Imagine how ridiculous they would sound.

CARTHAGE, TUNISIA -- Carrying signs saying, "End The US Occupation of Germany" and, "War Is Not The Answer," the seven remaining members of Peace For Our Time, a group that once numbered in the dozens, have gathered once again. The group continues its protest against US involvement in World War II, at the spot on which it began 63 years ago in 1942.

"There was never any reason to invade Tunisia," said 82-year-old PFOT founder Scott Whiteflag, weakly shaking a fist in the air. "No Tunisians ever attacked America! We should have stayed at home and taken care of our own problems! The only people who attacked us were the Japanese, and Roosevelt didn't do nearly enough to find out why they hated us and offer them our apologies. Instead of trying to find a means of peaceful coexistence with Nazi Germany, a country that had never attacked us, he rashly led the country into an elective war based on lies about a German invasion of America. Roosevelt lied, and people died!"

The group Peace For Our Time takes its name from the statement made by Neville Chamberlain in 1938, after negotiating with Adolf Hitler. "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep." The group contends that Hitler was open to diplomacy and was "contained."

"We had no right to interfere with their culture," an unidentified member of the group insisted. "All those martial displays and Jew-killing was part of their heritage, and our unwanted interference just wasn't right. Just because we didn't agree with their laws against Jews, Slavs and Gypsies doesn't mean we had the right to go over there and invade a sovereign nation like that. Who died and made America the boss?"

"Of course Hitler was a bad person," said a grandmotherly woman named Ruth, "and it's a good thing he was removed from power -- don't get us wrong there! However, we protest the manner in which we were misled into the war, and the hundreds of thousands of American dead!" Ruth also accused General Patton of committing war crimes against the German people, and demanded that he be posthumously stripped of his rank as well as his decorations and awards.

Another member of the group whose walker bore a taped-on sign reading, "Containment Was Working!" collapsed at that moment.

"Poor Charlie!" exclaimed Ruth. "Now only the six of us are left to protest the way Mr. Roosevelt pushed us into war with his filthy Lend-Lease Act."

For the last sixty years, Whiteflag and his group have been funded by a cartel of Swiss bankers living in Argentina.