in reference to an image of Iraqi children celebrating some gifts from some soldiers

It's funny how images such as these are taken as morality barometers of the US invasion and occupation. As if an image of a group of Austrians welcoming their ‘liberators’ makes the ‘liberation’ the morally correct thing to do.
It does not matter if life is ‘better’ for every Iraqi if that ‘better’ is our interpretation of ‘better’ and not the efforts of the Iraqis to improve their own lives.
Our support of Saddam the sanctions (that helped keep Saddam in power) and the Invasion are all same in imperialist terms.
Its really simple… we would not want some other more powerful country say a fictional democratic France in the late 18th century invading us and killing us and the British and then showing us how to live ‘better’ with their version of democracy. Even if it was better then British rule it would it would be unearned freedom or liberation which is meaningless. Somehow that basic moral principal is lost with images such as those above.