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.
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I go to market in any non-westernized muslim country. I greet the merchants respectfully with as-salamu alaykum, I look respectful but not local, not muslim, but obviously I am a guest, a guest whom their king welcomed. And the merchants still do not treat me seriously.
What does this mean? This means that the society is rotten. It converts its open friendly guests who are looking for mutual benefit into enemies.
They have no right to cry babies when Bush/Obama easily convince their countries to move on Iraq, Syria, etc.