There may have been nothing within your power to stop it but as with so many people I hear bemoaning the war they did very little to try. We went to war for revenge for 9-11 and nothing else. The poll shows people didn't care about WMDs but supported the invasion. It was about 30 years of rising gas prices, Islamic terrorism, being told over and over Saddam was protecting the people who attacked us and if we weren't careful not only would the terrorists attack again but with more powerful weapons. My point is that citizens bear the burden of living with their government and it's choices. Citizens who disagree with the government have the responsibility to change that government. Voting for the candidate of your choice is only the start, if every committed person tried changing one person’s mind in the last two election cycles it would not have taken much of a swing to change the coarse of events. You also assume that 79% of the people who were polled were stupid, that's a pretty arrogant assumption, maybe that did not have the time to be well informed, maybe they never had someone question their assumptions or maybe they were stupid but how would you know? Then in the end you surrendered, you moved to Canada, how very brave of you, can I ask as someone who would like to see my country once again honor the Geneva Convention, have a civil discourse about our political differences, trust it’s citizens not spy on them and again be a beacon of hope and freedom to oppressed people not their oppressor, come home and make a difference in any way you can. It is the citizen of a country not the government that must live with bad decisions their government makes and it is their responsibility to insure they are not made again that is what you should be doing not running away.