Without getting into a deep Reg-like post I would compare and contrast the first Iraqi invasion with the current one. The first had a broad multi-national consensus before, during, and after. Granted there are a lot of nations supporting our decision, but the decision was ours, we made it quite clear we were going in with or without anyone else and we then went out scaring up countries willing to support a decision we already made; and its fairly common knowledge that most of the coalition of the willing are of the token support variety . . .