Which we still can't claim innocence on. Part of the people's suffering was due to sanctions which we placed on Iraq. No one is saying Saddam was a nice guy. He had a problem with religious factions and choose brutal means to solve it. But considering the US is spying on the world in a way that would make the Nazis wet themselves all the while running secret camps, keeping people in prison without trial, force feeding prisons and torturing them and don't forget the drones used to bomb anyone they feel like blowing up. I can't help but think all this justification in that Iraq was such a terrible place is just that justification to try and make people feel better about themselves for destabilising the region and generally just fucking it up so dubya could get revenge for his daddy.
But it's also the fact that if the US military is so great and the soldiers did such a great thing by losing their lives in the battle of Iraq why throw all of that way in such a short period? At the very least let's be honest about what soldiers are and that is a disposable resource for the wealthy in the US to with as they please. They're not some great honourable warriors because if we genuinely though that we wouldn't be throwing away all their work so quickly.