Did I ever say I was basing my thoughts on what the UN thinks? All I said was, violation of UN resolutions does not automatically justify our invasion of a sovereign nation. If you take that to mean I agree with everything the UN does, you are sadly mistaken, and need to question your assumptions.
I think the UN is a great idea, in theory. I'm a little disappointed with how it's turning out in practice - certain nations having pretty much all the power and abusing it to high hell, to wit, the USA - but I stand by what I said. There may be all other reasons for why we should have and did go to war, but you cannot use the UN's resolutions as justification since we were not sent by the UN at all.
I'm amazed, though, that you can consider the war money well spent. We began the Shrub's reign with a national surplus for the first time in a very long while - and within a few years, it's turned into the biggest national debt in history. And what do we have to show for it? Dead soldiers. Dead Iraqis. A horribly destabilized region, and the threat of war with Iran, who is scarier than Iraq ever was. The true architects of 9/11 have still not been brought to justice. No WMDs were found, despite the promises. Shrub & Co. have been backpedaling for years, throwing out one excuse after another for why we should be there. We still have no end in sight, despite the optimistic "Victory Achieved!" BS as soon as we marched into Iraq.
I guess that fearmongering has lodged itself pretty solidly in your reality, so solidly as to be "fact", and for that I'm sorry.
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