Oh, sure.
Then why did we spend over 60,000 USA lives if it wern't an invasion?
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck -- IT'S A DUCK!
Make up any excuse you want and call it whatever makes you happy. It was an invasion by the USA that was an unmitigated disaster like all the other invasions since.
It's no different than the debacle in Ukraine that we launched, except in the case of Ukraine, we got a million Ukies killed and destroyed a nation and it only cost a few hundred billion!
You have to invade someone for it to be an invasion, like Russia is doing in Europe, South Vietnam was not invading anyone, they were merely trying to fight off an invasion.
There is a big difference.