Wow, just wow!
Really Willie, I thought this was below even you. Three times, and the third time the authoritis have taped footage of Ritter showing his Willie off on the internet, along with logs proving he was told she was fifteen before that. Yet, you stand here and defend him. Anyone else would have denounced the contact for professional and personal reasons, and wouldn't mention any past collaborations.
Your (collectively, you and the pedophile) work would have done nothing to stop the war. First off, how do you know that the Iraqi's didn't compromise the pedophile and let him have access to young girls, for a price? It wouldn't be the first time something like that happened.
Second, the causus belli and the reasons to actually go to war are not always readily apparent. Afghanistan is, and always shall be, a logistical trap for any regular army that goes into it. It's population is hostile to outside contact, it is surrounded by people that are not now, nor likely ever reliable allies of the US. We needed a place where our large conventional army would hold most of the cards against a jihadi army. We have pretty good logistics capability into Iraq, the population is relatively centralized, and the dictator of Iraq was stupid enoughto keep handing us reasons to smack him down.
Third, Iraq actually was almost done with before those idiots at Abu Gharib stirred up muslims and gave them a good reason not to ever surrender. The leader of the Mahdi Army couldn't find enough support before that, so your statement about it being a bloodbath aren't right there either.
Go back to drinking Will, it's the one thing in your life that your good at.
