In 2003, I wrote that the war in Iraq was “the wrong war against Terrorism.” At the time I wondered why there were no journalists, no Democrats, nobody anywhere shouting from the rooftops that we really didn’t know if there were WMD in Iraq - that Saddam Hussain was not aiding international terrorists, al qaeda or otherwise – much less that it was morally wrong to invade a foreign nation without provocation. Why was there not at least one voice in the wilderness stating that we needed to work with the nations of the world (instead of against them) to eradicate international terrorism.

I Still say its the wrong war against international terrorism!

Last week, while visiting my daughter and her husband in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, I read an article in The December 26, 2006/ January 7, 2007 issue of Time Magazine, “The Real War,” an article in which five authors of the best books about the effects of nine-eleven discuss where this presidential administration’s “War on Terror,” went wrong. The startling result is a conversation indicating that almost nothing has been right about the invasion of Iraq from day one. Bob Woodward states the following about the period leading up to the war.

I talked to people who said, The evidence is much skimpier than they are saying. And we played around with writing a storey about this and did not, and it is one of my regrets. We should’ve all been much more aggressive. It’s an intelligence failure. It’s a policy failure. It’s a journalistic failure.

In a part of the conversation concerning process and decision-making in this administration the authors disparage the fact that the President isn’t present when decisions are made. Finally, Thomas Ricks says…

That’s one of the things in the books – I was struck by the absence of the President.

Ron Suskind follows Ricks’ comments with the following.

How can a president not be involved in a decision upon which so many lives depend? That’s an enormous question here. At day’s end history will point to the character of the President. That’s the way it boils down.

I’m pleased that so many authors have written books that detail the mistakes made in this fiasco. I’m excited that Time Magazine pulls the authors together for a dialogue with their own staff and transcribes the round table discussion of a failed foreign policy. I’m happy that finally it seems to be the consensus among most Democrats, and a few Republicans that the Invasion of Iraq was wrong headed. I’m not happy that we the citizens of the United States allowed ourselves to be taken to war by this Pied Piper and his Neoconservative cronies. Worse, I know that a sizeable portion of our population still believes this war to be a necessary evil. Instead, it is an EVIL that must sadden all actual humanitarian Christians.

I believe that it will be necessary ultimately for this nation and a future president to apologize to the entire world through the United Nations for this travesty of a war. It must be done if we expect to be allowed to resume a position of leadership in the community of nations. I will wait not so patiently for that time, for it must come.