WORLD NEWS TRUST: The Un-Asked Question (Hal Cohen)

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Hal Cohen -- World News Trust

Dec. 22, 2008 -- In a recent interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson, President George W. Bush offered that the greatest regret of his presidency was that the intelligence was wrong on Iraq. He then went on to say that a lot of people had put their reputations on the line. It hadn’t occurred to me at first that he omitted mentioning regret for the lives lost based on that bad intelligence.

Men of good will can disagree about interpreting a set of circumstances. Is it lying to choose to believe only reports that support your position and ignore evidence to the contrary? I don’t know the answer to that. As much as I believe that’s a dangerous characteristic for a president to have, I will leave that alone as well. I think that the most important question for the president regarding Iraq has never been asked.

“And Hal, just what question is that?” you ask.

Well, before I get to it, I am going to do what many people who share my political feelings have previously thought impossible. I am going to presume that everything President Bush told us between September 2002, and April 2003 was true. I didn’t believe it then, but for the sake of argument, let’s play a little “What if?”

Now, in our Bush-inspired Universe, Saddam Hussein is a global threat possessing biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction, and he is developing a nuclear capability. The President comes to Congress and says he needs them to authorize him to use military force to motivate the UN to take action. Of course, this is the reverse order that his father’s successful venture took, but we are presuming everything is as President Bush says it is.

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