Anti-Climacus

WELL: My Foreign Correspondent, in the comments below:

"Reason being: I think we can do better than this. I think that the procedures and methods are important. We, as a nation, must set a good prescedent for international actions and enact our policies fairly, efficiently and effectively. Disregarding the process seems (to me) absurd!"

This isn't really objectionable at all, and certainly we all can agree the process could've been handled much better than it was. If you agree with, say, the end result of the war (more or less), and you think that there are reasons that justified fighting the war (whether they were expressed or not) and your objections to what happened center largely on process is that you're still open to the following counterfactual:

what if the countries that opposed the war were wrong to oppose it?

You might not think it applies in this case, but you could probably imagine a situation wherein France, Germany and Russia deliberate on whether to do anything and just get the decision wrong on the merits (in the same way the US could deliberate on an action and be wrong on the merits, like not intervening sooner in Bosnia). If France decides that they just don't like the US and announce that they're going to veto any resolution the US submits and rallies other countries against the US (who may have their own axes to grind), you've got a situation where efforts at diplomacy are likely to fail independent of whether or not the case is a good one*.

*I mean, one assumption that (so far as I've done reading) is far from proven is the idea that there was any basis on which France could be convinced to act with the US in Iraq.