The president has not laid out in detail to the American public why he might be leading the U.S. into its most aggressive action against Tehran since its 1979 revolution.

What many see as a lack of clarity stands in stark contrast to the extensive public case made by then-President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which he said was meant to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction. Though that mission ended up being based on bad intelligence and false claims, Bush’s stated war aims were clear at the outset.

Ok look admittedly our bar for the wars our presidents launch are pretttttty damn low, but we have to have some heroes right? It wouldn’t be fair to us not to have any, we would be sad. Bush is a failed painter, painters can’t be bad right?