Fair enough. Just remember the alternative for the Iraqis had we done nothing. Quiet murders that don't make the newspapers are no better than people being shot up on the TV news. They just bother people less.

Had Hitler's Reich not been stopped, and he had been left alone to eat Europe, the word "Holocaust" would not have the meaning it currently does. Every Jew in Europe would have been quietly eliminated offstage, and the camps destroyed, plowed under, and cornfields planted. Only a few rumors and hearsay evidence would remain, with the story would be that the Jews had "fled" or died in the wars.

Because the camps were raided in mid-atrocity, and survivors rescued, we learned something very important about how Hitler operated. And saved millions who would have otherwise died.