The first Iraq war (occupation of Kuwait) was legitimate. The second one was started under the (known) false premise of the presence of WMD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

"The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000–208,000 violent civilian deaths through February 2020 in their table. All estimates of Iraq War casualties are disputed."

The official civilian casualties count in Ukraine so far is 600, according to the UN. Both wars are horrible.

> Comparing what Russia is doing in Ukraine to anything the US has done in the last 100 years is an exercise in false equivalence. One so blatant that it defies any attempt to interpret in good faith.

Are you fucking kidding me? Are you completely ignorant of history? What about Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Iraq?

The wars and embargo in Iraq ?

(Hopefully we'll be careful this time about what is being embargoed, the Russian population is now the best shot of getting rid of Putin, once the horror of what is happening in Ukraine to their friends and family filters through Putin's propaganda.)

It might also help, if it makes a politician think twice next time before calling to invade, sorry "bringing democracy" to a country... (USA, thank you for giving democracy a bad name by the way.)