[T]he specific cost in human lives of the Iraq war is not the sole reason why this will remain the central question of current politics. There are wider reverberations. For this war was unique, the first truly pre-emptive attack lacking even the pretence of provocation.
How can anyone possibly be that ignorant of history? One doesn’t even need to look at other nations than Iraq and it’s adventures in Kuwait in 1990 or Iran in 1980.