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It's All About the Oil

Ya know that old saying: knowledge is power? Well, since 2000 we've all been "out of the know." We theorize about what's driving the Bush administration to do what it does at home and abroad. It just dawned on me that something very sinister indeed must be driving them, and I got to wondering if the Bushies are taking orders from somewhere and if that somewhere may be Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia appears to be sitting pretty over in the Gulf region. Oil prices are high. Saddam is gone. Iran is contained. Saudi Arabia is rarely in the news.

Then I got thinking ... many of the alleged hijackers on 9/11 were Saudis. The elusive Osama Bin Laden runs free. All members of the Saudi family were shuttled out of the US on 9/11. The Bush family is tight with the Saudi royal family. If I'm not mistaken, the US signed a secret treaty with Saudi Arabia after WWI or WWII. Wolfowitz was a couple years back quoted saying something along the lines of "you have to take the Saudi factor into account." The first Bush president lied to the US public, in order to gain support for invading Iraq in the first Gulf War, by saying that thousands of Iraqi troops were lining the Saudi border, and Saudi Arabia didn't contest or correct that misinformation.

Anyway, I wonder if Saudi Arabia plays a larger role in the current administration's policies and wonder if you'd touch on that theory on KEXP or in your publication.

THANKS!

--Noah Anderson, Seattle

Our Ever-Expanding Empire

If you haven't gotten your copy of the paper since the buyout by "Reporter Group," the new Kirkland Courier Reporter looks like the Auburn Senior Shopper, or the Arlington Trailer Living, or something. Appalling!

Does this reflect the Kirkland you know?

Let's start our own paper--or maybe, an eastside edition of Eat the State!

--Todd Boyle, via e-mail