What Lies Ahead?

What if I were to tell you that I had just bought a new red car? What if you then told a friend that I had bought a new red car? What if it turns out that my new car is actually yellow? Would it be right to accuse you of lying to your friend?

What if it was my job to tell the President about weapons of mass destruction (or the lack thereof) in Iraq. What if I told him they had them? What if the President told the American people in a press conference that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What if it turned out that they did not have them. Would it be right to accuse him of lying to the American people?

If you answered, “Yes,” to the last question in either of the above, you are completely unqualified to even venture an opinion on this subject (because you are blatantly dishonest and disingenuous), let alone to speak authoritatively about it, whether you are a U.S Congressman, a Senator or just an “average” American.

The U.S. and world intelligence community had the job of reporting to the President and to the world whether WMDs were in Iraq. They said they were, so the President reported such to us. He may have been misinformed, but he did not lie to us. At least not about that.

There are those calling for a complete withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. That would be the stupidest, most foolhardy thing we could do. It would be a disservice to those troops who have already given their lives for this cause. It would be a disservice to those troops who are presently serving there and it would be a disservice to The United States of America.

Now I know there are some of you who disagree with me on that. That is OK. This is America and you have the right to be wrong. And you know what? It is not our job to decide.

We have a Commander in Chief whose job it is to decide and he must do so. And we must let him.

Any other course would be a travesty.