No, they are not the same. For those who lived through it in their full grown up minds, justifying lockdowns is a terminal sin. While justifying Iraq invasion is like justifying Zalgiris's victory in Lithuanian Basketball League in 2007 - other than Iraqis and there friends nobody cares. Iraq was another world that nobody knew anything about - strangers. And it was their word that they were good against the word of our news that they were bad. No iraqi managed to prove his trustworthiness to me, become my friend, shine some light to me about the situation. Neither before, nor during, nor after. That is what you get for being a closed unopen culture. Partially, they as muslims deserved it.