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**************************************** No More Mr. Nice Guy "It's time to take the gloves off. We're so intent on being the nice guys, and (enemy troops) are not going to abide by anything." - Garry Fribley, whose 26-year-old son, Lance Cpl. David Fribley, was killed in action in Iraq, Washington Times, 3/26/03 *********************************** 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. ************************************** Do Your Own Math "If you have faith in the United Nations to do the right thing, keep this in mind: They have Libya heading the Committee on Human Rights and Iraq heading the Global Disarmament Committee. Do your own math here." - Comedian Dennis Miller **************************************** French Democrats in California "Democrats in charge of the California Assembly are blocking a vote on a Republican resolution that expresses support for U.S. troops and President Bush, in favor of their own resolution, which does not support the president, a Republican member of the lower house said yesterday." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 3/26/03 **************************************** PETA Peaceniks "Stephanie Boyles, a wildlife biologist with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said the use of dolphins to sweep for mines in Iraq is 'just ridiculous.' 'These are animals that, number one, have not volunteered to take part in this whatsoever. Number two, they are being put in harm's way...when they don't even know they are in harm's way,' Boyles told CNSNews.com. 'There have been already enough victims in this world. We don't have to start adding other species to it,' Boyles added. "...U.S. Navy Captain Mike Tillotson told reporters in Iraq that the dolphins are trained to place a marker near any detected mines and avoid getting too close to the mines." - CNSNews.com, 3/26/03 *************************************** What'll Naysayers Say Next? "If the war to liberate Iraq continues to go well;...if, in short, we achieve every objective, what will the naysayers say? The gloom-and-doom prophets of disaster - from Jimmy Carter, to Walter Cronkite, to the editorial pages of the New York Times - ought to acknowledge they were wrong. But they won't. "...What the naysayers fear the most is victory. They are embarrassed by America's position in the world, though we are the world's best protector and promoter of freedom. Why are they reluctant to respond to such a noble calling?" - Columnist Cal Thomas *************************************** Using Civvies to Undermine War Effort "Even if civilian casualties in Iraq are light, expect a great deal of attention to the subject in the days ahead. In a numbers-obsessed society, focusing relentlessly on the details of innocents - and inflating the numbers, if necessary - is a conventional way of undermining support for the war." - Columnist John Leo *************************************** Coalition of the Willing Continues to Grow "The coalition that is currently engaged in the hard, dangerous work to disarm Iraq is strong, broad and diverse. Nearly 50 nations are committed to ridding Saddam Hussein's regime of all its deadly, destructive and illegal weapons. "...The world has seen what happens when countries that recognize emerging or present threats lack the will to meet them. Many times in the last century--and as recently as the last decade--the world failed to act in time to prevent a crisis or meet a threat. Some of the members of this current coalition had to live with the deadly and dreadful consequences of that failure for decades. "Some have only recently emerged from tyrannies imposed in no small part because of that failure. Months ago, the prime minister of Estonia told President Bush that he did not need an explanation of the need to confront Iraq. Because the great democracies failed to act in 1930s, his people lived in slavery for 50 years." - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice *************************************** Hollywood's Black Eye "The ratings for this year's (Academy Awards) show were appallingly low (with the weakest audience share in Academy history), and the mounting backlash to celebrity leftists raises the possibility of permanent damage to Hollywood's standing. . . . For years, Hollywood has promoted messages that neither reflect nor respect the values of everyday Americans. On Oscar night, the contrast between our struggling troops in Iraq and the stars who wouldn't support their efforts proved too glaring to ignore--or forget." - Columnist Michael Medved, OpinionJournal.com, 3/26/03 *************************************** Pro-War is Free Speech, Too "A teenager's pro-war T-shirt caused a stir Friday at El Camino High School (Oceanside, Calif.), where officials suspended the boy for wearing the shirt, then allowed him back into school on the advice of lawyers who warned that administrators may have been infringing on his free speech rights. "Derik Rosario, 15, whose mother is a Marine master sergeant fighting in Kuwait, wore a T-shirt that read, 'War: Justifiable Homicide' to school Friday morning, the same day an anti-war protest was scheduled at the school. According to the school, he and a few other boys wearing pro-war T-shirts were asked early Friday morning to turn the shirts inside out or face suspension in order to prevent conflict with the war protesters." - North County Times, 3/22/03 **************************************** Can't Fight Out of a Paper Bag "The sad truth is that France, which once conquered most of Europe under Napoleon, and Germany, whose military prowess in World War II was monumental, have become military weaklings. Neither could fight their way out of a paper bag today. "The reason is that the welfare state has severely weakened both France and Germany to the point where their armed forces are just extensions of it. Their armies, navies and air forces exist not to fight, but to provide jobs with lifetime security for the otherwise unemployable." - Bruce Bartlett of the National Center for Policy Analysis ************************************** Prez Warns Against Lard-fest The President unveiled his wartime request for an additional $75 billion on Tuesday, warning Congress not to use the supplemental "as an opportunity to add spending that is unrelated, unwise, and unnecessary." In an unrelated story, the President also warned the sun not to rise in the east or set in the west. "Democrats are always asking for more money, with little or no credibility," House Minority Leader told the Washington Times after Democrats immediately began demanding more money for homeland security. "I rely on the president knowing what he needs, rather than some pseudo-expert running around the House or Senate raising the issues of what they think we need." And the beat goes on. *************************************** Dems Caught in Another Disinformation Campaign Leading Senate Democrats from Hillary Clinton to John Edwards to Joe Lieberman have been squealing like stuck pigs that the president hasn't been providing enough money to the nation's first responders. For example, a Clinton flak charged that when it comes to money for first-responders, "the money's not there, and it's not flowing." But as we all know, facts can be rather inconvenient things. The Hill reported on Wednesday that "states and localities have failed to spend nearly two-thirds of the federal money available to them." Go figure. For example, Hillary's New York "has received almost $26 million in first-responder grants but spent none of the money" in 2002. Edwards' North Carolina was allocated $12.3 million, but only spent $2 million of it. And Joey Lieberman's Connecticut only cashed in $2.2 million of the $7 million it was awarded. Why does anybody believe anything that any Democrat ever says on any issue any longer? *************************************** Tax Cut Cut Senate Democrats succeeded in slashing the President's tax cut in half on Tuesday with a little help from the RINO (Republican In Name Only) brigade, led by Rhode Island's Sen. Lincoln Chaffee who wanted to deep-six the entire tax cut, but voted for the reduced cut saying that "anything's better" than the president's plan. Sen. Tom Daschle was not "saddened, saddened" that the American people wouldn't be getting the tax relief they had hoped for. Instead, he declared the effort to slash the tax cut "a great victory." For whom, Tommy? Surely not the American taxpayer. 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