Why Humanitarian Groups Want Us to Lose Iraq

Christopher Hitchens, writing for Salon, asks the following question of "humanitarian" groups on Iraq:

The United States is awash in human rights groups, feminist organizations, ecological foundations, and committees for the rights of minorities. How come there is not a huge voluntary effort to help and to publicize the efforts to find the hundreds of thousands of “missing” Iraqis, to support Iraqi women’s battle against fundamentalists, to assist in the recuperation of the marsh Arab wetlands, and to underwrite the struggle of the Kurds, the largest stateless people in the Middle East? Is Abu Ghraib really the only subject that interests our humanitarians?

John Hawkins points out that these groups couldn't care less about the lives of Iraqis - they only care about hurting Bush. Many liberals stated this publicly before the election: if many Iraqis and U.S. soldiers have to die in order to defeat Bush, then so be it...