TODD: Let’s talk about Iraq. You wouldn’t — you wouldn’t answer the hindsight question, and I understand that. You don’t have all the information at the time. But the way you answered the question about whether if you knew everything then that you know now, that maybe the war would have gone differently or maybe history will judge this war badly. Is that your sense on this?
ROMNEY: Well, if we knew at the time of our entry into Iraq that there were no weapons of mass destruction, if somehow we had been given that information, obviously we would not have gone in.
TODD: You don’t think we would have gone in?
ROMNEY: Of course not. The President went in based upon intelligence that they had weapons of mass destruction. Had he known that that was not the case, the U.N. would not have put forward resolutions authorizing this type of action. The President would not have been pursuing that course. But we did not know that. Based upon what we knew at the time, we were very much under the impression as a nation that they had weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam Hussein was intent on potentially using those weapons, and so he took action based upon what he knew. But to go back and say, well, knowing what we know now would we have gone in. Well, knowing what we know now, they did not have weapons of mass destruction, there would have been no effort on the part of our president or others to take military action.