I pardon them for their ignorance.
The WAR wasn’t the mistake. A dangerous maniac was taken out.
The MISTAKE was the flawed effort of the Bush II Administration to think that using western civilized methods of occupation would result in a total political and culture shift in a society of religiously fanatical troglodytes whose minds and souls are arrested in 7th Century thinking and servants of a “god” of evil and death that the Bush Administration had no intention of challenging.