Iraq was better off before we invaded....

...George W. Rousseau disagrees:

"It will be said that a despot gives his subjects the assurance of civil tranquility. Very well, but what does it profit them, if those wars against other powers which result from a despot's ambition, if his insatiable greed, and the oppressive demands of his administration, cause more desolation than civil strife would cause? ...There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, published 1762.