What is more important: going to war for a good reason(s), or waging war effectively?

It’s striking that so many liberals who hate everything about the Iraq War are cheerleading our intervention in Libya. Once you remove the fake WMD threat, the justification for both wars is exactly the same: we have to help remove a cruel dictator.

That said, the way we are waging the two wars seems pretty different. In Iraq, we ignored and steamrolled the international community, sent in a wave of ground forces for “shock and awe,” and in general killed a lot more civilians. In Libya, European countries have taken the lead, the Arab and African League gave their blessing, we aren’t using ground troops, and we are only targeting air defenses and mobile armor; we aren’t even targeting Qaddafi himself.

Do people support Libya because it isn’t being waged as unilaterally and irresponsibly as Iraq? Would more people have supported Iraq if the war wasn’t a clusterf***?