The O’Neill Scoop President Bush’s former Treasury secretary, Paul O’Neill, is charging that Mr. Bush began planning to oust Saddam Hussein within days of taking office — well before the attacks of September 11. The Washington Post called his remarks, made to Lesley Stahl of CBS News, “first hand testimony bolstering a longtime contention of White House critics.” We don’t mind saying that we believe Mr. O’Neill’s great scoop to be true. We have little doubt that, as Mr. O’Neill says, that planning to oust Saddam did begin well before September 11, 2001. Certainly the White House was involved beginning...