> The overall pattern is that West European nations tended to feel
> happy about relative paucity of Iraqi military resistance and nations
> whose populations are mostly people of color tended to feel
> disappointed about it.
It's a bit more complicated than that. The EU nations have the strongest traditions of pacifism, mostly because they experienced the most hideous war in history on their own soil. In fact, the oiligarchy's imperial crusade has deeply angered the Eurobourgeoisie.
The politics of race do deserve a serious discussion, though, because race is -- along with gender, nationality, and the other micropolitical registers -- both a key element of how multinational capitalism works, and a key element of the resistance to such. The EU *can* be legitimately criticized, for example, for despicable acts like this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3494627.stm
-- DRR