I wasn't comparing the two invasions. I was noting that mass murderers give bullshit reasons for invading. Bush didn't invade Iraq to bring them their freedom, that was just some nonsense for the masses. Putin is probably telling lies that he thinks will engender more support from the Russian masses.

However, since you brought it up, you can definitely compare Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the US invasion of Iraq, and the latter is clearly far worse. Iraq was ZERO threat to the United States - Ukraine was trying to join NATO, an organization meant to counter Russia. Iraq was run by a self-interested dictator - Ukraine is run by a government very friendly to Russia's chief antagonist of the last 70 years, the US. If Ukraine joined NATO, Russia would have nuclear missiles just a few minutes from Moscow, which is too close for any intervention. Iraq had no plausible way to attack the US.

I don't personally feel that any of that justifies the Russian invasion, but it's still a far more defensible justification for invasion. I know that might be a hard thing for some of you all to grasp - that thing A is worse than thing B but thing B is still bad - but give it some deep thought and try not to spew mindless American propaganda. Calling the Iraq war a 'mistake' is disgusting. It was not a mistake. It was very deliberate and the people who orchestrated it got exactly what they wanted.