Seattle P-I defends Bush, prepares for war against Saudi Arabia

[JailBush]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is part of the Heart's "yellow journalism" empire and ranks with the Seattle Times as the biggest newspaper in the corporate brothel of Seattle. Both papers are utterly corrupt.

One of the P-I's favorite columnist is a corporate stooge named Ted Van Dyk. He managed to cram some interesting propaganda into his latest piece, "Holiday cheer tempered by reality," at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/151925_vandyk11.html

First, Ted warns, "If you are traveling later this month, be vigilant. Electronic intercepts have picked up a level of communication among terrorist groups exceeding that before 9/11."

Then he tells us Al-Qaida's "ultimate objective is to seize power in Saudi Arabia," which would force the United States to intervene. And it would not be a popular war, because, "we would be seen as defending oligarchs against a popular uprising."

Gee, do ya think?

Next, Ted says two Iraq myths should be put to rest. Brace yourself for the first: "President Bush lied about the presence of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons development in Iraq to justify the intervention there. Neither Bush nor any other president would risk his own presidency for an intervention he did not think the national interest compelled. . . .

"Bush, new to the job, relied too greatly on advisers committed to the intervention. Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton made the same mistake early in their presidencies regarding the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam and Somalia, respectively."

Hmmmmm... Does that make you want to subscribe to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer?

Mr. Dyk continues: "Now we occupy a country that, like Yugoslavia after Tito, is not a country at all but a piece of real estate in which contending ethnic, religious and tribal factions have mutually exclusive objectives. Neo-Wilsonians who see the establishment of democracy in Iraq, and its spread throughout the region, are trying to plant a Northwest-style garden in arid sand."

The only northwest-style garden I see is sprouting in Ted Van Dyk's head.