Vice President Dick Cheney's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on the need to end Saddam Hussein's terrorist regime in Iraq was a much-needed dose of cold, hard reality. Those who are wringing their hands over the possibility of a pre-emptive strike against Iraq seem not to remember that there has already been a pre-emptive strike against Iraq — two decades ago. The Israelis bombed a nuclear facility that Saddam Hussein was building at that time — much to the consternation and condemnation of so-called world opinion. But many an American soldier may have come back alive from the...