justify the invasion never remembering the next time the government and "the new york times" aligned to assure you that something is absolutely true, for real. it may not be true. it often isn't true. but for a broader answer to whether it was worth it or not, there is a new two volume 1300 page study of the war and its consequences. it was produced bys the army war college and released last montht to very little notice. the conclusions of the study are grim.n years of warfare in iraq failed to create a thriving democracy therefore even a stable government. our much vaunted coalition of allies didn't work very well since most allies sent only token forces, too few to be useful. a handful of countries did all the real work. keep that in mind when i tell you how critical nato is. but the most part of the report is the conclusion that the iraq war really had only one winner. if one was not america, it wasn'ta, iraq. according to the report's authors and bolded and