In Michigan, Senator John Kerry, commenting on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, said: “If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened.” I doubt a President Kerry would have done much to disarm Hezbollah, but, in any event, we do have a strong indication of how a President Kerry would have handled Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Back then Senator Kerry opposed the resolution authorizing force to eject Saddam from Kuwait. He argued on the Senate floor that “time is not on Saddam Hussein’s side, but ours. Sanctions cost Iraq much, they cost us little.” But after the war ended, we found something unexpected — a massive nuclear weapons program that had gone undetected by Western intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency. On August 11, 1991, the Washington Post reported that: