Don't accept the neocon frame: Call it an invasion, not a war

I'll keep this short and sweet. In my opinion, we need to stop referring to the situation in Iraq as the Iraq war. I think most Americans think of "war" as a response to an attack. But here, we were not attacked by Iraq. Going into Iraq was completely unjustified, and most international legal scholars would say, illegal. Let's start calling it by a term that better captures what it was: an invasion. That one simple word change--from war to invasion--would drive home the point again and again that there was no real justification for going into Iraq and that we were the aggressor's here, having being misled by a corrupt administration.

So my suggestion to Kossacks is that we all make a concerted effort to avoid the phrase "Iraq war" but instead call it what it was and is, the Iraq invasion and occupation.