You're partly right.
The rhetoric was a bit strong.
AND, invading a country which is doing no harm, which is complying, however reluctantly, with international demands, complete with the inevitable deaths and dismemberments of innocent people for the purpose of charging them for reconstruction, is very similar to every other slaughter of innocent people for immoral purposes.
The Holocaust was one of those events. Tragic, shameful, actually despicable beyond words. Inexcuseable. And killing the innocent people of a country which is not a danger to US interests is too.
And, the rhetoric was too strong.
Arf