When one tries to swim against the river of truth, one is certain to drown. I understand that theocrats, flat-earthers, and republicans don't believe in facts, but facts are stubborn things.
There are so many arguments against this insane invasion beyond the sheer immorality of bloodshed not in self-defense. There is no higher purpose to such killing, as every faith has pointed out.
Indeed, Saddam in Iraq
was far better than al-Qaida in Iraq (as pointed out by wisdude:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/23/204538/352). This invasion was as tactically stupid as if the Allies had, say taken out Stalin before taking out Hitler in WWII. Everyone knows that it was Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union that ultimately destroyed his army. Imagine how stupid it would have been had the Allies taken out Stalin first, giving Hitler an enormous country to annex. He very well might have won the war, and such tactical stupidity would have left the world goose-stepping. Al-Qaida now has a larger theater of operations, and with the 3rd largest supply of oil in the world. Remember that one of OBL's main goals is oil at over $100 per barrel. We're now halfway there. (But then, folks invested in oil -- like W et al -- like high oil prices, don't they?) This is why conservation and alternative energy among the most powerful weapons against al-Qaida.
Indeed, there many brutal dictators in the world, and grieve for their populations though we might, blowing them to pieces for it is counterproductive, both for the populations whose countries are wrecked in the process, but for us Americans as well. It is to further the (enlightened) interests of 300 million Americans that a person should hold office; no other reason. It appears that Bush's loyalty lays not with America but with a fantasy world of delusions spawned by the PNAC and Ahmed Chalabi, one of 3 double agents in his administration. Bush has a reality gap that is easily exploited by our enemies.
This ideology is so precious to Bush that he has let 3 of the planet's worst terrorists go free so he could prosecute his invasion. OBL in Tora Bora, Mullah Omar in the sights but allowed to go free, and THREE TIMES the CIA requested and had the opportunity to take out Zarqawi before the invasion, but Bush refused in order to keep his reason to invade intact. This is far worse than incompetent. Policies that are so maladaptive can be seen as downright treasonous. Americans and Iraqis alike are being maimed and killed so Bush can enjoy his war, and perhaps, in his delusions, his rapture. This sort of bloodlust is inexcusable. Being dead trumps being free.