Yet Another Outrage by E.J. Dionne Jr.

Today's paper's really wasn't too bad from a bias perspective. In fact, it's funny how it swings from day to day. Part of the answer, however, lies in the fact that most of today's stories are syndications from Knight-Ridder and the AP. When they come from the LA Times, the New York Times, or the Seattle Times' own editorial staff, on the other hand, bias city!

So I wasn't even going to blog today because, as I've said before, I'm not going to write just to write. But then I saw the new garbage, I mean piece, "Bush team's 'values', not CIA failures, pushed us into war" by E.J. Dionne Jr., in the Op/Ed page.

Now, I typically don't write about things in the Op/Ed pages (except the "Newspaper's View") because, of course, they're meant to be biased. I focus on bias that SHOULDN'T be there. But just the fact that the Seattle Times would print such a hateful, factless, frankly moronic piece really says more about the Times (and the Editorial Page Manager, Jim Vesely) than it does about Mr. Dionne.

I could honestly believe that Mr. Dionne has spent the last four years on a desert island with statements like "The president was determined to scare the hell out of the country and make the case for war by whatever means necessary". Scare us? Has Mr. Dionne heard of a little thing called September 11th? I, for one, was already scared as hell.

I could go on and on deconstructing Mr. Dionne's arguments and making the case that our very lives are threatened by millions of Islamic fundamentalists. But there is a simple truth that resonates louder than all the E.J. Dionne Jr., Michael Moore, Democratic Underground, liberal media garbage that fills the political landscape: On September 11, 2001, 3,000 Americans died as a result of an attack by Islamic fundamentalists. Because of George Bush's leadership, there has not been a subsequent attack on US soil. This is irrefutable.

And specifically, it isn't the CIA or the Department of Homeland Defense that is keeping us safe. It is because after watching the demise of the Taliban, Al Quada and Saddam Hussein, George Bush has been able to "scare the hell out of" terrorists.