This was a great article.
I disagree. The idea that W could have "hidden" behind the nefarious noe-cons is absurd. W was and is front and center, he has never, not once, tryed to shift the "blame" for his policy onto anyone else.
The attack on Iraq had nothing to do w/ the price of oil. That comfortable chestnut is a standard prop for all UN apologists, which this writer most certainly is. It is the UN mishandling of Saddam which required the strong US response, not Isreal nor oil prices.
Methinks the globaloneyists are a bit too machiavellian in their efforts to understand W. He ain't stupid but then again he's not complex. He says what he thinks and does what he says. They're convinced there must be more to it than that, but I'm not.