Was the U.S. Invading Iraq and Russia invading Crimea morally equivalent?

[mike_c]

28. I'm sorry-- the invasion of Iraq was an international crime against humanity....

A significant majority of Crimeans favors annexation by Russia. There has been no shock-and-awe aerial barrage. No one is "lighting up" civilian vehicles just for the hell of it. The Russian army has not killed a million innocent civilians. There is very little equivalence. The U.S. invasion and destruction of Iraq was FAR worse. Remember Chelsea Manning's video leak? Russian soldiers are not helicopter hunting journalists in Crimea. The annexation was not proceeded by a decade of crippling sanctions designed to kill civilian children by the hundreds of thousands. Russian marines have not done anything in Crimea even remotely like the atrocities U.S. marines committed in Fallujah. I could go on.

Anyone who thinks there is even a sliver of equivalence between the U.S. war of aggression against Irag and Russia's annexation of a population who mostly wants to be annexed has utterly forgotten what was done in our names in Iraq.

Let me remind them: