Well actually , that ' s a fair protest your last point . I didn ' t need to make it so extreme . But this is my main point sometimes a brutal dictator is better than the alternative . I actually think Iraq ' s prospects are better now than they were right before the invasion . I think the net long run effect will be positive . Will it be the most positive out of all possible alternatives ? No , obviously not . We botched a whole load of shit , and continue to be barely better than questionable . So I get your point , but I ' m vigilant because there are many people out there who are legitimately just on some nope , nope , it was oil . Oil is the only reason . We don ' t care about anything but oil . Although , Trump didn ' t help our case when he repeatedly said we should have taken their oil . Edit I said worse first