Yes. It is beside the point. It doesn’t matter how often or how loudly you insist it is not beside the point. It is beside the point. Sorry, but it is.
Whether we were right or wrong to go into Iraq has not a damn thing to do with the fact that Russia has no valid claim of right to be going into Ukraine.
Also, as I correctly noted and you can’t refute, even if it mattered (and it absolutely does not matter), I don’t have a time machine. So I can’t go back in time to correct past mistakes. Nobody can. What we do have some ability to control is the present.
Your opinions about my credibility on matters of war (or anything else for that matter) are irrelevant to the one real question:
If that scumbag murdering ***** Putin has no right to be committing war crimes in Ukraine (and he doesn’t), then why should he be allowed to do so? (A similar question to: IF Hitler is invading the Sudetenland, and we can stop him, why the **** shouldn’t we try to stop him before he gets encouraged by our lack of action against his wrongful murderous behavior?)