Obama Defends Iraq Invasion: At Least America 'Sought' To Get UN Backing

This is cringeworthy, embarrassing stuff. To use a totally inadequate analogy that is nevertheless universally understandable to children:  It's even worse to take the cookie after you've been told "no" than to take it without asking. 

Obama Defends Iraq Invasion: At Least America 'Sought' To Get UN Backing

The entire article by Grim is worth reading and addresses other good points:

Obama's assertion also hinges on how broadly one construes the word "our." Taxpayers on the one hand are worse off, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq haveadded $2 trillion to the national debt, according to one study. But contractors reaped tremendous gains, and Halliburton -- a company often associated with the invasion, of which former Vice President Dick Cheney served as CEO -- saw its stock price surge from under $10 a share to over $50, before falling along with the rest of the market in 2008. (It has since recovered.)