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********************************** Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys "They (the French) rejected it before Iraq rejected it." - White House spokesman Ari Fleischer on the French dismissal of Britain's latest plan to end the UN stalemate over military action against Saddam Hussein, 3/12/03 ********************************** UN Quagmire "President Bush told the United Nations on Sept. 13 - 182 days ago - that 'we expect quick resolution to the issue' of Iraqi disarmament, setting a deadline of 'days and weeks, not months and years.' Exactly six months later, he's still waiting, mired in an ever growing U.N. debate." - Washington Times, 3/14/03 ************************************ Getting US Out of UN Is it time for the U.S. to say adios to the U.N. and serve 'em eviction papers? Find out in this week's edition of "Muth's Truths" at http://www.chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.htm *********************************** Go Forth and e-Multiply If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com. Also, occasionally, the automatic listserve we use will "bump" subscribers off the list if your mailbox is full or experiences some other technical glitch. If you suddenly stop receiving News & Views, the first thing you should do is try to re-subscribe using the link above. ********************************* Dissing Latinos "This is the biggest anti-Hispanic crusade this city has ever seen." - Rep. Henry Bonilla, Texas Republican, on the Democrats continued filibuster of Miguel Estrada's judicial nomination ********************************* Whole Lotta Sour Grapes Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is grousing about the way his successor, Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, is doing his job. Reminding us why we were glad to see him go, Lott says Frist is mishandling the judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada by cutting a deal and giving in to his opponents. According to Lott, Sen. Frist "should have pressed for an accommodation with the Democrats and moved on." You know, the way Lott "accommodated" the Democrats in 2001 and allowed them to share power even though the GOP had the majority in the Senate. For his part, Sen. Frist is sticking by his guns and his principles and doesn't appear willing to follow Lott's lead (I know, "Lott's lead" is an oxymoron) in surrendering to Democrat demands. "I want people to see that we don't fold, period, when we're right on principle," he tells the New York Times. "I know that half my own caucus thinks we've prolonged (the Estrada matter) too long. But before this is over, it will show that patience pays off, just like it does in medicine - persistence, when you know deep inside that you are right on an issue." Does anybody miss Trent Lott? ********************************* Uh-oh, This'll Stir Up the ACLU The "K-9 puppies" of Mrs. Leard's kindergarten class at St. Mary's School in Alexandria, Virginia, sent off a bunch of questions to GIs stationed in Kuwait who are waiting for the order to knock Saddam's block off, reports John McCaslin in his Inside the Beltway column. Among the questions posed: "Does the Tooth Fairy go there?" Lt. Col. Pat Looney of the 5th Marine Regiment fielded that one, and likely got himself in hot water with the good folks over at the ACLU in the process. "Tooth Fairy?" he replied. "Heck ya. I haven't seen her yet, but she goes everywhere people who believe in her go. Kind of like Jesus." Holy, Moses! Can he say that? ********************************* Time to Break Out World's Smallest Violin "There was a thin layer of ice on the dirt floor of his cell. His interrogators, American soldiers, ordered him to strip," reports the Associated Press. "Shivering, naked in his cell, two men threw a bucket of ice cold water on him. 'I couldn't say anything. I was so frightened. I didn't know what they would do next,' Saif-ur Rahman told the Associated Press two weeks after his release from U.S. detention in Afghanistan. "In separate interviews conducted by the AP, two prisoners - Rahman and Qayyum - offered similar accounts of their time at Bagram's detention center," the AP continues. "They complained of sleep deprivation, of being forced to stand for long periods of time, of humiliating taunts from women soldiers, screaming abuses at them." Awwwww. Poor babies. At least they didn't have airplanes filled with civilian passengers flying into their cells. ********************************** Weakness Invites Attack "Osama bin Laden attacked America because he hated this country and believed it was weak and fickle. By failing to topple Saddam Hussein, this view would be reinforced and al Qaeda emboldened to strike again." - Toby Harnden of the Daily Telegraph (London), The Hill, 3/12/03 ********************************* Hating Bush "The dawgs of war are about to be unleashed. Thousands will die, billions will be spent and most of us will have to do with less. These are the wages of following a leader who is strong but wrong. He's the man; we're his bitches." - Richard Goldstein in the Nation ********************************** Hating America "Quite probably the worst thing about the inevitable and totally unjustifiable war with Iraq is that there's no chance the United States might lose it. . . . America...has been exhibiting all the characteristics of an adolescent bully, a pubescent punk who's too big for his britches and too strong for his age. Someday, perhaps, we may grow out of our mindless, pimple-faced arrogance, but in the meantime, it might do us a ton of good to have our butts kicked." - Tom Robbins in Seattle Weekly *********************************** Give the Check to Frenchie ".(E)ven the French concede that it is only because the United States has 200,000 troops in Kuwait that Saddam is even pretending that he is disarming. We need to ask Paris how long they propose that we keep a goodly portion of our army there in order to give inspections a chance to work. Are the French prepared to pay the cost of their maintenance?" - Columnist Dick Morris ********************************** French Flashback "President Reagan sent American warplanes in April 1986 to bomb Col. Moammar Gadhafi's compound after the Libyan dictator capped numerous bellicose acts worldwide by sending agents to a West Berlin disco frequented by American soldiers. There they set off a bomb that killed two American soldiers and wounded some 200 innocent people, among them 50 more American soldiers. "Even in that surgical military strike against a dictator who had been terrorizing the world, certain European sophisticates were against us, most memorably Jacques Chirac, then only the French prime minister. Mr. Chirac denied French airspace to our strike force, causing its pilots to fly 2,400 more miles to attack Col. Gadhafi." - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. ********************************* Ex Excess "First Carter. Now former President Clinton. What's up with ex-prezzies directly undermining their successors at critical moments in foreign diplomacy? Last week, Mr. Clinton joined former President Carter in opposing an immediate war, backing another protracted United Nations wrangle, with no guarantee that at the end of it the French and Russians would change their minds. . . . 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