Wait a minute, it's not like everyone through the war in Iraq was a good thing until Bradley Manning leaked information about it, or that there was a news blackout about how poorly it was going or that the US created a power vacuum that degenerated into a hideous civil war. I'm not willing to address any of the detail in your argument when you start out with such an enormous attempt at misdirection.

Try again by all means, but please don't treat your readers like idiots.