How could Iraq be anything other than a catastrophe? Americans agreed to spill American blood to stop someone in the “Axis of Evil” from developing weapons of mass destruction. It threatened our safety.
Whether the weapons of mass destruction line was outright fraud or just plain incompetent, two thirds of the Axis of Evil has taken the opportunity presented by our invasion of Iraq to develop nuclear weapons.
Even if you think that nation building in Iraq is all well and good, it has cost us our security, not to mention our blood.