> Nothing on that paragraph is different from the Bush Jr. excursions into the Middle East Irak was a dictatorship which committed genocide on its own people.

> Nothing on that paragraph is different from the Bush Jr. excursions into the Middle East Irak was a dictatorship which committed genocide on its own people. Even if the reasons weren't true (and they weren't but people believed the propaganda at the time) there was at least the hope that things would improve for the people. (For the Kurds, they have.) Ukraine is a democracy. The propaganda isn't even good enough to fool anyone. The situations are very different.