Fair point, guru, but I still wouldn't classify Jesus as a pacifist. Clearing the temple may not have been violent, but it certainly wasn't "peaceful". Setting conflict solely through peaceful means is a hallmark of pacifism, and this is not what Christ did at all times. Jesus was a peaceful man, but not a pacifist.

Incidentally, for Christians who believe that Jesus was indeed God in the flesh, we can't discount the God-ordained conflicts of the Old Testament. God as portrayed in the Old Testament is most certainly not a pacifist. Again, I'm not at all suggesting that the war in Iraq was justified, but I can only shake my head when people try to paint God into the pacifism box. This shows a very incomplete understanding of scripture. I do not presume to know the mind of God, but what He has shown of Himself through scripture does not fit the idea of pacifism.

-Brian