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************************************** May I Have a Saddam Shooter, Please "Students on spring break in Key West, Fla., are drinking a powerful new cocktail, Anna Quindlen reports at www.msnbc.com. The drink is called the Saddam: 'You get bombed in about 15 minutes.'" - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 3/17/03 ************************************** Fright Night "If you weren't already scared by the Korean crisis, listening to Democrats will terrify you." - Columnist Rich Lowry **************************************** Get US Out of UN It's time to tell Congress that it's time to stop funding and appeasing the United Nations when it comes to American interests. Sign this online petition telling your congressional representatives to get the US out of the UN. Just go to: <http://www.libertypetitions.com/petition.html?name=get_us_out_of_un> ************************************** Blast from the Past "When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. . . . Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors." - Ronald Reagan *************************************** Like Sand Through an Hour Glass... "The days of drawing one more last line in the sand, the weeks of listening to the antiwar left and massaging the French ego, the months of preparing the invasion force and the years of indulging Saddam Hussein's lies and stalling are just about over." - Wesley Pruden, "Pruden on Politics," 3/18/03 *************************************** Lancing the Boil "Not only Saddam, but the world is now on notice that the Iraqi boil is about to be lanced." - Washington Times editorial, 3/18/03 ************************************** Beginning of the End "The fighting that will soon commence is not in fact the start of this war. It is the beginning of the end of a war that began when Saddam invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990. The first President Bush rallied the world to roll that invasion back but failed to seize the moment to gain a permanent victory. The Iraq war has continued ever since, with Saddam's agents attempting to assassinate the elder Mr. Bush and shoot down U.S. pilots. "In that sense this war is above all about American self-defense. Saddam may lack the means to invade the U.S., but we learned on September 11 that enemies can strike our homeland in other ways. With revenge as a motive, horrifying weapons as a means and terrorists willing to serve as his opportunity, Saddam poses a clear and present danger to Americans." - "Review & Outlook," OpinionJournal.com, 3/18/03 ********************************** Let Us Give Thanks "As war looms, I am thankful for many things. I am thankful for a president who suffers slings and arrows for steadfastly opposing evil, while other more sophisticated statesmen continue to appease one of the cruelest monsters of our time. I am thankful for a man who understands, unlike his predecessor, that leadership is lonely and that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "I am thankful for the U.S. military, not for the United Nations or any other international organization, for it is the men and women of America's armed forces who will be the guardians of civilization as we have known it. I am thankful for their bravery, skills and sacrifice, which betray greater courage and character than all of the screams and sloganeering from Hollywood's stars and protesters, who understand little, and risk even less in demonstrating against them." - Columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Bently Elliott ************************************ NEW! 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views e-newsletter. Just go to: <http://www.GOPLongDistance.com> today. ********************************** Americans Support American Security "Gallup reported the results of a CNN/USA Today overnight snap poll following the President's Monday night speech: 'Overall, 66% of Americans approve of Bush's decision to go to war unless Saddam Hussein leaves Iraq within 48 hours, while 30% disapprove.' "...It is foolish to decide to go to war or decide NOT to go to war on the basis of a public opinion poll, but it is useful to remember that only one country was attacked on September 11, 2001 and the citizens of that country favor the continued prosecution of the war on terrorism." - Rich Galen, "Mullings," 3/19/03 ********************************* Will U.S. Get "Frenched"? "How pathetic are the French? The Washington Post reports that Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin is warning America of 'serious consequences' if it goes ahead and enforces the U.N.'s mandates on Iraq. We guess this means the French are threatening to send Hans Blix to Washington." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 3/18/03 ********************************* Hollywood's Loony Fringe "Our business is notorious for being almost lunatic liberal. There's sort of a loony fringe that's way over the top and out of step with mainstream America." - Actor James Woods, New York Times, 3/16/03 ********************************* Non-Existent Blacklist "(T)he Screen Actors' Guild is now worrying about a new 'blacklist' against anti-war celebrities. No such blacklist exists. Many of these guys (Ed Asner, Mike Farrell) haven't got a career to blacklist anyway." - Columnist Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun Times, 3/16/03 ********************************* Bureaucratic Brouhaha Forget the war between Bush and Hussein, a real mega-battle between two super-powers of government bureaucracy is brewing: The Postal Service vs. the CIA. Lloyd Grover of the Washington Post reports that "for the past three years, the Central Intelligence Agency has been stuffing unstamped postcards into residential mailboxes in the neighborhoods surrounding the agency's Langley headquarters." This revelation got the Post Office's pantyhose all up in a bunch, as such activities infringe on the government monopoly the PO enjoys on your home mailbox. "Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter ... on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service ... shall for each such offense be fined under this title," reads Title 18, Section 1725 of the United States Code. The Postal Service has warned the CIA to cease and desist from covertly infiltrating their domain. But this all brings up a very good question: Why DOES the Postal Service get to tell YOU who can and can't put flyers, notices, etc., in YOUR mailbox. To that end, Citizen Outreach has sent a letter to the President's Commission on Postal Service Reform calling for an end to monopoly access to your mailbox. You can read it at: <http://www.chuckmuth.com/citizenoutreach.postalcommission.htm> ************************************ Clinton Skeletons Still Coming Out of Closet Lt. Col. Robert Patterson who carried the nuclear "football" for Bill Clinton has penned a new book detailing just how bad and irresponsible a president Bubba was. In "Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security," Patterson recounts how the Commander-in-Briefs lost the nuclear codes the day the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. He also reveals that in the fall of 1998, when a decision on killing Osama bin Laden needed to be made, Clinton was "too busy watching a golf match." And the rest is history. This is sure to be a national best-seller and yet another warning against electing people of such low character to the nation's highest office. Order your copy now at: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=C6153&sour_cd=C ME00101> ************************************* Soft on Terror, Soft on Crime At the national level, the leaders of the Democrat party are leading the charge to against the war in favor of letting Saddam Hussein stay in power. >From the despicable Tom Daschle to the presidential candidate Howard Dean, the party of the jackass is on record as being soft on dictators and terrorists. But such softness for the dregs of society isn't restricted to just the national stage. In Maryland, the state senate voted on Tuesday to lift keep a moratorium on the death penalty there for an additional two years. This is a state which only months ago was under siege by the Beltway snipers who were picking off citizens in parking lots with reckless abandon. Fortunately, the measure failed by one vote, meaning those murderers who have been sentenced to termination with extreme prejudice may finally get their due. And for the record, every vote in favor of protecting these murderers was cast by Democrats. It should also be noted, as White House adviser Karl Rove has been pointing out, an incredible number of Republicans were elected to state legislative seats last November, a net gain of 195 seats. The GOP now has the majority of state legislative seats for the first time since 1954. Democrats wondering how that happened can take a look at what Democrats in Maryland's senate just did this week. ************************************ Big Win for GOP Union Members "Rack one up for the forces of liberty in Idaho where Governor Dirk Kempthorne last week signed the Voluntary Contributions Act, putting an end to the practice of public employee unions forcing Republican members to fund Democrat campaigns. "Under the new law, unions cannot siphon dues for political purposes. Union officials will have to rely on voluntary contributions (hence, the clever name) to support their political agenda. The law also ends the practice of state and local governments in the state playing political bagman by providing payroll deduction services for labor unions, but not other groups." - Ron Nehring, Americans for Tax Reform *********************************** 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. 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