I don't think that the world was a better place before Gulf War II, but I do think that America was a better place before our leader tarnished our integrity in front of the whole world.
If you go out and drive to your local 7-eleven tonight, and shoot the clerk in the face, you are a murderer.
If it turns out later that the clerk was a rapist, are you a hero?
No.
You are still a murderer.