If there was no reason to send them into harms way there would not be anything to talk about.

It was weapons of mass destruction, wasn't it? I don't recall ever finding them. Just how much did that cost the taxpayers? I forget!

You are correct the Military follows the orders of the Commander in chief without question. The blame for unnessisary deployment falls directly on Civilian Leadership.
And Who was it that did not obtain a sourse of financing those excoursions?

Paul