could hardly have happened without the editorial pages headed by a hawk, fred hiatt, who is still hiseoday, and in editorial pages before the iraq invasion, more than two dozen editorials urging the invasion. skeptics were merciless the savaged in the editorial pages, but they were not allowed to speak for themselves. so when i hear people talk about the washington post under the grant family, the paper of watergate, it reminds me of people who look at barack obama and say that he is the community organizer embedded with the poor in chicago. the washington post we should be thinking about in the last 10, 12 years has been a very important instrument of u.s. intervention, imperial foreign- policy at the hands of the editorial page editor fred hiatt. >> just to read part of the editorial from february 2003 that ran the day after the iraq presentation to the united nations by colin powell, "irrefutable." it read -- >> and on the washington post op-ed page in the next two days, endorsingmnist was colon paul's speech and invasion of iraq. that has been par for the course over there for the