Well said. I don't think GP deserves to have their comment killed; there is a certain amount of hypocrisy when comparing today's response with that of the Iraq

Well said. I don't think GP deserves to have their comment killed; there is a certain amount of hypocrisy when comparing today's response with that of the Iraq war. It was not justified, has killed a huge number of people both directly and indirectly and was waged with impunity. We are right to point this out, and the comparison holds to a certain degree although it is far from perfectly analogous. But two wrongs don't make a right, and I'm sure plenty of us would have wished there existed an external power that could have made the Bush administration reconsider how they perpetrated the whole thing. On a deeper level, the current situation is a conflict of principles; rule of law versus authoritarianism. The former system works better, and enthusiastic debate and denouncement of mistakes democratic governments have made is certainly a part of that.