I would like to blog about this a little more, when I have more time but what the former editor-in-chief of the NY Times, Howell Raines writes in the Guardian is ludicrous. I have blogged a number of times about the "paper of record's" editorial slant but I had no idea that Howell Raines was so extreme. He writes, "None of us can say with certainty that Bush is simply a dullard, although that explains his regime of goofy tax cuts, corporate welfare and needless invasions." Notice that besides the typically leftist demagoguery he uses the plural "invasions" as opposed to invasion. This along with his comment that "US foreign policy became wars-for-oil" leads one to believe that Howell Raines along with a leftist conspiracy theorists and maybe a handful of the progressive caucus believes that Afghanistan was a "war-for-oil" and a "needless invasion."

I would be curious as to know what he would have advocated the U.S. doing in response to 9/11 and why he believes the U.S. has spent $100's of billions of dollars in Afghanistan for a relatively small amount of oil.