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***************************************** Crash Site "A website created by the Department of Defense to keep the public informed about the war against terrorism crashed Thursday night because of the number of visitors signing a 'thank you note' to the U.S. military. "Linda Kozaryn, editor of www.DefendAmerica.mil , said Friday that traffic to the site had increased unbelievably as a result of publicity about the thank you note and public sentiment regarding current events. 'The other night, we were getting 1,000 hits a night on the thank you note. I think, yesterday, we had 600,000 hits,' she said." - CNSNews.com, 3/22/03 *********************************** How to Subscribe 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. ***************************************** Shocked Back to Reality "A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip 'had shocked me back to reality.' "Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera 'told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head.'" - Columnist Arnaud de Borchgrave ***************************************** Well, Here's a Surprise "The French government is refusing a U.S. request for all nations to expel Iraqi diplomats." - CNSNews.com, 3/21/03 ***************************************** Hate Speech "I'm so French I hate myself." - Signs at pro-troop rally in Chicago on Saturday ****************************************** Now This Takes Chutzpah Russian President Vladimir Putin has belched up some harsh criticism of U.S. efforts to liberate Iraq from the iron fist of Saddam Hussein. In a statement this week, Putin said that "nothing can justify this military action." He added, we assume with a straight face, "If we allow international law to be replaced by the 'law of the fist'...then no one, not a single country in the world, will feel itself secure." Considering the brutal "law of the fist" with which the former Soviet Union ruled during the Cold War, you'll excuse us if don't exactly take Mr. Putin' s opinion in this matter very seriously. ****************************************** Roster of French Democrats Only 11 House members voted against a resolution on Friday "expressing the support and appreciation of the nation for the president and the members of the armed forces who are participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom." Not surprisingly, all 11 are Democrats: - Charles Rangel (New York) - John Conyers (Mich.) - Mike Honda (Calif.) - Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio) - Barbara Lee (Calif.) - Jim McDermott (Wash.) - Bobby Scott (Va.) - Fortney "Pete" Stark (Calif.) - Edolphus Towns (N.Y.) - Maxine Waters (Calif.) - Diane Watson (Calif.) ************************************ 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. ****************************************** Hateful, Shameful Words "There was Sen. Tom Daschle, standing by this week's 'saddened, saddened' soliloquy in which he declared President Bush had 'failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war.' And to think, he might as well have added, after all that Iraq and France have done for us. "...What hateful, shameful words. Mr. Daschle articulated neither strategic disagreement, nor respectable political dissent. Instead, he baselessly accused an American president of compromising the lives of American military men and women on the very brink - then - of battle." - Columnist Diana West ****************************************** Saddened, Saddened "Being 'saddened' is (Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's) favorite rhetorical device. George W. Bush could pet a puppy and Mr. Daschle would hold a press conference sighing, in that stage whisper of his, that he's 'saddened and disappointed that President Bush couldn't muster more than a token level of affection' for the poor creature." - Columnist Jonah Goldberg ****************************************** Dems Rally Troops Around Daschle "The Democratic National Committee is asking party members to defend Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's criticism of the way President Bush has handled the Iraq crisis even as U.S.-led forces invade the country. In the hours before and after the president's order Wednesday night to begin the war to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, the DNC sent e-mails to its grass-roots activists that said 'Democratic leaders are standing up to Bush; Make sure you stand up for them!'" - Washington Times, 3/21/03 ****************************************** As Predictable as the Sun Rising "It seems that making an anti-Bush, anti-American, mindlessly partisan pronouncement is something that the left can't resist. Put a microphone in front of them and, inevitably, out it comes - just like when a crow is perched on a streetlight above your freshly washed car." - Forwarded by a News & Views reader ****************************************** Same Ol', Same 'Ol "The Democratic minority has been advancing preposterous positions for so long that much of Washington is apparently numb to their excesses." - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. ***************************************** Aid and Comfort "True, while attacking Bush (Democrats) say they are still supporting the troops. But they are either kidding themselves or trying to kid the American people and probably failing on both counts. You cannot attack the commander-in-chief without hurting the morale of those he is commanding.. You cannot cast doubt on the leader without raising doubts among those he is leading. Yet this is what they are doing. "There was a time--World War II comes to mind--when politics stopped at the water's edge. Today there is no stopping place, not for Bush haters, not for those who put politics before patriotism." - Former Reagan press secretary Lyn Nofziger, Musings.com, 3/19/03 ****************************************** The Ditzy Chick "Natalie Maines has lost her brains And don't know where to find them. She said Bush was bad. Her fans are now mad. Maybe in France she would find them." - News & Views reader Connie Scott ****************************************** Pukers for Peace "'In a unique form of opposition, some protesters at the [San Francisco] Federal Building staged a 'vomit in,' by heaving on the sidewalks and plaza areas in the back and front of the building to show that the war in Iraq made them sick, reports the Bay City News. The San Francisco Chronicle says the group called itself 'Pukers for Peace.'" - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 3/21/03 ***************************************** Too Much Time on Their Hands "The crowds of demonstrators against the war are thinning, even in the Peoples Republic of San Francisco, where some of the demonstrators induced vomiting yesterday, soiling the sidewalks outside a federal office building, to demonstrate that the war makes them sick. What actually makes them sick about the war is not necessarily that it will be nasty and brutish, but likely to be all too brief. 'Demonstrating' is all these people have to do. "...The old lefties in America are running on Viagra, prune juice and stale rhetoric left over from the Vietnam War. They're joined in the streets by out-of-work actors, smug preachers with empty pews and a few sophomores who have heard all the war stories and yearn to live in that imagined romantic past, like Civil War re-enactors fantasizing about Chancellorsville." - Wesley Pruden, Pruden On Politics, 3/21/03 ***************************************** Sign of the Times "Union Yes, War No." - Sign at anti-war rally in Chicago on Saturday ***************************************** Union Takes Another Hard-Left Turn "The unanimous decision by the AFL-CIO Executive Council to oppose the Bush administration's Iraq policy reflects an historic watershed in the labor movement. The late February statement...represents a break in a long tradition of American unions backing the president on foreign military policy." - David Moberg, InTheseTimes.com, 3/20/03 **************************************** Union Joins Coalition of the Unwilling "The National Executive Board of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) at its Jan. 14 meeting voted to oppose war with Iraq." - APWU.org **************************************** Pro-America Union Workers Not Amused "I think it may be time for me to resign from the APWU. I support the President and our military. To all the military and their families, thank you and may God bless you. My freedoms sure outweigh any silly AFL-CIO labor movement. God Bless America. By the way if not for our military you would not be allowed to protest anything." Posted by: R.J.B on 3.21.03 | 8:15 pm from VA. "The stand of the APWU makes me puke. We got an anti-Bush council that is using it's hatred of Bush towards our Military Boys. I got almost 30 yrs. in and I'll cut my ties real quick. Again the APWU ex. board makes me SICK." Posted by: R.E.D. on 3.22.03 | 4:00 am from Rhode Island - InTheseTimes.com ************************************** Bowling for Bozo "With Hollywood in a fever pitch against the war in Iraq, Michael Moore is likely to win the Oscar for Best Documentary at Sunday's Academy Awards. 'Bowling for Columbine,' Mr. Moore's work of anti-American propaganda, has grossed over $15 million, an amazing sum for a film billed as a documentary. But the film, a merry dissection of America's 'culture of fear' and love of guns, is filled with so many inaccuracies and distortions that it ought to be classed as a work of fiction." - John Fund's Political Diary, 3/21/03 ********************************* ********************************* Published by Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher 611 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, #439 Washington, DC 20003-4303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Citizen Outreach is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public policy organization and does not endorse candidates or lobby for specific legislation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. To be REMOVED, go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ and complete the removal request instructions you'll find there. Or send your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # #
