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****************************************** Happy Anniversary to Gen. & Mrs. Tommy Franks! >From a grateful and proud nation. ***************************************** Ten Hut "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. "...I pity those poor bastards we're going against--by God, I do. We won't just shoot the bastards. We're going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. "...There's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying: 'We are holding our position.' We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and are not interested in holding anything, except onto the enemy. We're going to hold on to him by the nose and kick him in the ass. We'll kick the hell out of him all the time. We'll go through them like crap through a goose." - Excerpts of the opening speech delivered by Gen. George Patton in the biographical movie "Patton" by Francis Ford Coppola ***************************************** Houston, We Have Lift-Off Good morning from Houston, Texas, where I'm joining the lovely and talented Amy Hamilton of the Leadership Institute to put on two fact-filled days of grassroots activist training. Naturally, I had to leave the house for the airport yesterday at almost exactly the same time the "shock and awe" phase of kicking Saddam Hussein's a** began. And naturally, yet again, once I finally got through the long line at the airport security checkpoint, I was singled out for the full "shock and awe" treatment by my wonderful friends of the TSA. I say once again, if all these invasive, un-American security procedures actually made air travel SAFER, I might not get so agitated, especially during wartime; however, I don't remember hearing of any 43-year-old white guys with two beautiful children and a lovely wife at home flying passenger airliners into sky-scrapers and the Pentagon. Nor do I recall any of the terrorists being sweet, little five-year olds wearing over-sized glasses and carrying dolls, as was the "profile" of the poor thing getting the mother of all wandings right next to me. The war on the Hussein regime may now begin to wind down, but the war on air travel continues unabated. ***************************************** The Great Paradox "The great paradox of the escalating Iraq War is that the attacking allies want fewer Iraqi casualties than does Saddam Hussein." - "Review & Outlook," OpinionJournal.com, 3/21/03 **************************************** Shock & Awe As this was likely the most telegraphed punch in recorded history, the opening of the U.S. air campaign in Iraq yesterday wasn't much of a "shock," but it was certainly "awe" it was billed to be. Hoo-hah! Damn, I'm proud to be an American. The apparent objective in the field of diplomacy is to yak, yak, yak for so long that your opponent dies of either boredom or old age. We tried that for some twelve years. It didn't work. So we were forced to turn to our military. The objective of the military, as I once heard it described, is to "break things." Damn! Did they ever break some things last night. Yee-haw! I'm sorry. Was that too politically incorrect in these touchy-feely days? I know, I know. We're supposed to reflect on this action with a healthy dose of sorrow and reservation. Uh-uh. Saddam Hussein is getting EXACTLY what he deserves. He was given EVERY opportunity to do what was right for his country and his people. Instead, he thumbed his nose at us and flipped us the bird. Now Gen. Tommy Franks & Company have grabbed him by the nose and are kicking him in the ass. It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy. USA! USA! ***************************************** Who's the Real "Bully"? Yes, I've heard some of the French Democrat-types bemoan the fact that this war is such a mismatch. Many are calling Uncle Sam a "bully" for picking on such a weak opponent. What a load of crap. First, this isn't some girl scout troop we're going up against. The enemy is shooting back and we have "brave men dying out there." This is no walk in the park. But more importantly, let's not lose sight of nature of the folks we're sending to their 73 virgins. This is a regime that gassed its own people; not an opposing army, mind you, but unarmed old men, women and children. The images of that gassing will turn your stomach. This is also the regime that just days ago strung up a merchant suspected of fleeing the country in the middle of the street, cut out his tongue and left him there to slowly and painfully bleed to death for all to see. And as a further reminder of the evil we're wiping out, take a gander at this eye-witness report of Saddam Hussein's brutality which appeared in the Times of London on Tuesday: "There was a machine designed for shredding plastic. Men were dropped into it and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their remains would be placed in plastic bags and we were told they would be used as fish food . . . on one occasion, I saw Qusay [President Saddam Hussein's youngest son] personally supervise these murders." Or this. "Women were suspended by their hair as their families watched; men were forced to watch as their wives were raped . . . women were suspended by their legs while they were menstruating until their periods were over, a procedure designed to cause humiliation." This is the nature of the regime that Senate Minority Leader and French Democrat Tom Daschle was "saddened, saddened" that President Bush "failed so miserably" to reach a diplomatic accommodation with. This is the nature of the regime that Martin Sheen and all those Hollywood "peace" protesters are giving aid and comfort to. This is the regime that Dixie Chick Natalie Maines defended in London when she said she was "ashamed" that President Bush was from Texas. This is the regime that those "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" in France are in bed with. This is the nature of the regime that America is about to wipe off the face of the earth. Let's roll. ************************************** Paying for the War I have an idea for paying the war cost: A world-wide pay-for-view Wrestlemania-type event, live from a sold-out Madison Square Garden with all the proceeds going to the Department of Defense and the rebuilding effort in Iraq. In the center of the ring would be a sniveling, blubbering Tom Daschle sitting on the end of an old-fashioned, World War II army cot with Dixie Chick Natalie Maines standing beside, clutching a change of underwear for him. The lights go down. The sound-system kicks on full-blast playing "From the Halls of Montezuma." The crowd roars. Gen. Tommy Franks appears on stage in conjunction with the mother of all indoor fireworks displays. He walks triumphantly through the cheering crowd behind a full-dress color guard armed with nothing but four-stars on his collar, a pair of Made-In-America leather gloves and a "Don't Tread On Me" Gadsden flag. After reaching the ring, Gen. Franks would march to each corner, hop up on the rope and cup his hear so the crowd can express its enthusiastic gratitude and appreciation. After about a half-hour of that, ring announcer and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld would blare, "Let's get ready to ruuummmmmble!" At that, Gen. Franks would calmly walk over to Mr. Daschle, slap him twice across the head with his gloves and order him out of the ring, declaring, "I won't have cowards in my army!" One...two...three! The general and color guard would then exit the ring as the Marine Corps band played the Star Spangled Banner. 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