Wars far far far away...

Today's government see no restraint on their ability to start aggressive foreign-based wars on other continents. This is largely due to the principle of democracy. Since the leaders are the voice of the people, and the people are infallible, it only follows that the leaders have the right to do anything the please. When the USA sent troops to Iraq in 2003 and began a full scale invasion of that country (notice they gave it nice names like "Operation Iraqi Freedom") I was not surprised. War-loving Presidents were nothing new to the US. I think the war-craze began in earnest with Abraham Lincoln, who destroyed all inhibitions of war by invading and brutally conquering the Confederate States of America. To some degree, Lincoln invented Total War, something Hitler would later acknowledge (Lincoln was one of Hitler's role models). Then the list just goes on - Wilson(World War I), FDR(WWII), Truman(Korea), Kennedy(Vietnam) and finally Bush&Bush (father and son having some sort of mania of invading the Middle East). Who will Obama attack? We will have to wait and see... The real shocker to me was not the United States attacking Iraq, but Poland attacking Iraq along with the US. Being Polish, I know a thing or two about Polish history. Poland has been invaded and (sometimes) occupied around 300 times in its over 1000 year history. Most recently of course by the Soviet Union, which only removed its troops from Poland in 1990. How can a nation like Poland, whose people suffered immeasurably throughout the centuries under different occupants, now invade a country halfway around the world which is guilty of NO transgression against it? Iraqi diplomacy never as much as mentioned Poland. I don't think Saddam Hussein (the actual rightful ruler of Iraq) even knew or cared about Poland! And yet we went in there and occupied the civilian population for a number of years. How can this be justified? How can this be morally sanctioned? Someday maybe Polish (and American!) politics will grow up and apologize for all these imperialist transgressions...