The POTUS swears to uphold the COTUS. The COTUS says we can go to war only when there is a Clear And Present Danger to the US. If the POTUS believed there was a CAPD to the US he had every right to invade Iraq and is in fact required to invade Iraq and destroy that danger. Whether or not he actually believed there was CAPD is another topic but for the sake of this argument I will assume he did. Had he not invaded Iraq he would have failed in his duties as POTUS. So he did invade Iraq. We were looking for WMD or the facilities and/or materials to create/build WMDs. We invaded, destroyed their military infrastructure, found a grand total of one artillery shell with sarin on it, and declared on Jan 12 2005 that we were no longer looking for WMD in Iraq. That was the last day that this war was Constitutional. We should have packed our stuff and got out.
I'm all for pulling an Israeli --we're done here, we're not re-building anything,
we're gone; you do it again, we're back for a repeat. The Iraqis can shake
things out for themselves and it's in their own interest to eventually get
the oil flowing since they have nothing else to sell.
But, you know we have that history of occupying and rebuilding everything
such as Tripoli with 10s of thousands of our troops....oh, wait...we used about
500 marines, broke it and left. Ok, let's see there was that past Republican
president who had us attack Morocco during the Pedicaris Incident....no..no...
we just left there, too, as soon as we were done. In fact there was this
whole big question as to why we were even there in the first place.
Let's use the Army for what the Army was meant to do --breaking things.
The last I checked they weren't UN caseworkers for a global social service
agency.