You have captured not just the colors but also the cold wind. How did you do that? I can hear this painting.

I can see how you would interpret the conversation that way.

Do you really not understand how conversations work? Read your above comment again and see if you can’t follow the thread that connects them. After that look a few steps after where you respond to me saying that I can and did criticize the USA. Which I did not. I merely stated that according to the UN charter, wars of aggression are illegal. The war in Iraq was a war of aggression. The war in Iraq was illegal. If you believe that legality matters and that the USA should be criticized for violating a law that is in you. If you believe that the USA is wrong to hold the position that they are not bound by international law, that is on you.

Of course I see that you weren’t responding to me - but why would that prevent me from clarifying a position further along in a conversation?

Edit: I apologize for asking if you understand how a conversation works. In reflection that was rude of me.

You just said that I am criticizing the USA.

How am I criticizing the US?

If you look closely my comment did not criticize the USA. It questioned the credulity of the redditor who claimed that the United States held themselves to the standards of international law. Something the United States does not claim to do on an official level. The USA does not believe that they should have to be restrained from acting in their own interests by international law. Maybe they are correct. Many would say that international law is simply a tool of Europe, put in place to enforce post colonial norms in the post WWII world order.
It is easier to believe the comforting lies we tell ourselves than it is to accept complicated truths. This is not criticism - I enjoy comfort as much as anyone. However if it is truth that you after the truth is that first strike wars are illegal according to international law and the Iraq war was illegal. According to that same law anyone who prosecuted that war should be accountable for war crimes - that would include not only George Bush, but Barak Obama, and the leadership of all 49 countries that participated.
Was it the correct action? That is clearly up to debate. Was it “legal” - that answer is no.

Was George Bush prosecuted for the illegal invasion of Iraq? How many dollars in reparations have been paid?