let’s be clear here:

1) a president takes the action, without submitting the proposition to the voters, of invading a country, overthrowing its government, setting up a new democratic government - according to our specifications - which then operates democratically and negotiates our withdrawal.

our friends get to keep the profits from oil processing instead of the saddam government, and the new government of iraq is unable to be anything but our, ahem, ally

2) a president takes the action, without consulting the other nation, of taking away a part of that nation and appending it to his nation

listen - i am not george bush, and despite the fact that i am an american, i don’t need permission from anybody to criticize vladimir putin, and the president doesn’t either

unless you want to establish the principle that you - and i mean you - should never be allowed to criticize any other nation since, you live in a country that allowed slavery and you, personally, benefit from that fact