Yes , actually it is . Saddam Hussein wasn ' t elected by the Iraqi people . He was put into power as a puppet by the US . So the excuse that we went into Iraq to take out Saddam is a pretty bad excuse since the US put him into power in the first place and armed him to the teeth . Thanks for blowing off a legitimate statement with sarcasm . When we invade and bomb countries , we don ' t get to say my bad and runaway from the problems that we created and then blame everything on the boogie man i . e . Islam . There is a reason Afghanistan has Al Qaeda and IraqSyria have ISIS and unlike the consensus of the Fox News Channel , its not because of Islam . There is a reason these organizations didn ' t exist prior to decades of meddling , wars , bombings and destruction .