I'd still like to know the answer to this question Vimothy. The reason I ask is because I've heard lots of previous war supporters now admitting that they were wrong but you're the first person I've heard of to swing the other way.
Sorry - getting distracted by work.
Basically felt that I should do some reading and find out more about the whole thing. Read the usual uninspired shite that I thought I should (you know what I mean: anti-Americanism + post-structuralism + marxism + simmering resentment, etc), and eventually - I can't remember how I came across it - read Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman, which I recommend, even if you disagree with the War on Terror for ideological reasons, as a really lucid and informed book. This started me off reflecting on what was happening, who was fighting and what was at stake, as well as doing more reading of the, I guess to everyone else but I saw it in a new light I suppose, usual stuff: Hitchens, Aaronovitch (I used to think Aaronovitch was a "traitor"), Cohen, Bernard Lewis and beyond (generally conservatives in the US (not that conservative really means the same thing in the US as the UK) and lefties here), getting especially more interested in economics and globalisation and the failures of socialism (as an economic programme) and all of that shit.
I guess that's why I'm harping on about the left - I feel betrayed to some greater or lesser extent, by a movement that I think has lost touch with reality. (For instance, does anyone remember Tony Benn on Newsnight accusing the Iraqi left resistance parties of being stooges of the CIA, because they wanted to be liberated and didn't give a toss about Benn's ideas of "US imperialism")?
I don't think any of my values have changed, in fact I think, or hope at least, that I better understand them now - and how positive outcomes can be affected by political and economic "machines".