“Ladies and gentlemen,” the president opens the discussion, “This meeting has just one item on its agenda. There will be plenty of time for discussion. After the discussion, I’ll make my statement.”
He quickly moves into the meat of his presentation. “Having received a growing body of substantiated intelligence on a regular basis, it appears that the nation of Iran is threatening to attack both the United States and the State of Israel.” This news creates a general stirring around the table.
“When that might happen, no one can say at this point. However, the information received to date indicates that sometime in the near future we are going to be involved in a confrontation with them. As president, it is my responsibility under the Constitution to protect our people and our nation to the best of my ability. Because of the serious nature of this intelligence, I’ve met privately with our admiral and generals sitting here this
morning. We have discussed both preemptive confrontation and retaliatory confrontation.
“As the four of us see it, this country has a major problem if its shores are attacked on a larger scale than September 11th, 2001. If we are restricted to the Constitution’s prescription for who takes over as acting president in the case of the death or inability of the president to function as commander-in-chief, we could become quickly crippled by our inability to make tactical military decisions to save our nation in a timely fashion.
“Therefore, I’m proposing the following:
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