Invading Iraq was a pretty expensive fuck up.
Why was that a fuck up?
Did we liberate a nation and kill a dictator that committed mass genocide?
I thought you Lefties love saving the world...no?
Golfing Gator?
It was a fuck up because Iraq was a sovereign nation that was no threat to the US.
It cost the US more than 4500 service members, more than 20,000 wounded and in upwards of 100,000 or more with PTSD.
The financial cost so far exceeded 2.4 trillion dollars, and that does not include some of the cost the VA is eating with all the broken service members.
It destabilized an entire region and brought about the "Arab Spring" and ISIS. If Saddam had not been removed ISIS would have never been more than a fringe group that he destroyed.
The world is full of ruthless dictators, Trump has been sucking up to one on a regular basis over the last 2.5 years.
We are still paying the price for the Iraq war, far more than your pet issue.