History repeating itself

At this point in time, no one is denying that our invasion of Iraq was based on flawed intelligence. The current argument seems to stem from whether it was deliberately manufactured or skewed by the Bush 43 administration or if it was a genuine error on minor lower levels that snowballed into what most perceived as a “credible threat.” To be honest, I find it hard to believe that our current president is intelligent enough to come up with the subterfuge needed to initiate this war. On the other hand, I have no doubt that many of the people closest to him could do this.
While misleading the American people into a war that has so far cost 2000+ American lives not to mention tens of thousands of Iraqis is unconscionable and should be punished, continuing to assert that we did the “right thing” by violating the sovereignty of another nation, is an insult to the American people and the world at large. We had no right to remove a sovereign leader, no matter how cruel and dictatorial, from power within his own country. We had no right to attack and destroy the cities in that country in retaliation to real or imagined threats.
We, as a nation, have done this before with somewhat more subtlety, but the end result is always disaster. Using violent means to promote change never works in the long term. If Mr. Bush and his colleagues had studied their history a little better, they might know this.