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*************************************** Signs of the Times Far be it for us to encourage vandalism or graffiti, but we couldn't help but chuckle over a report by our friend Kerri Houston that the doors of port-o-potties at this weekend's NASCAR race in Dallas were adorned with hand-written signs such as "Tom Daschle's Office" and "French Embassy." God bless REAL Americans. *********************************** 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. *************************************** Let's Recap "(The United States) started by spending six months asking nicely for Saddam to obey the law. When he refused, we asked nicely for our friends to help us enforce the law. When many of them refused, we appealed to their sentiment - after all, we had helped them out for most of the last century. But when we found out they had a lump of coal where a heart ought to be, we still politely told them we would do it ourselves. "Now the war has started, and once again we are being nice, reasonable, sentimental and fair-minded. First we asked Saddam's generals and colonels to give up quietly. They told us they would think about it. So, we carefully didn't bomb their headquarters in Baghdad. We want the Iraqi people to be our friends, so we left their television and water and lights on while we bombed around, but not in, their residential neighborhoods. "We did not want to risk violating the Geneva Conventions, so when their soldiers came out with their hands up and carrying a white flag, we tried to accept their surrender. We lost some good men when the surrendering Iraqis pulled their guns and started shooting. We didn't want to hurt non-combatants. So, when Iraqi soldiers dressed as civilians, they were able to machine-gun a few of our men - until we got the joke. "We didn't want any Iraqis to go hungry, and told them we had waiting shiploads of food and medicine, ready to take up the main highway from Kuwait. So, Saddam's goon squads started taking pot-shots at our trucks - assuring a delay in bringing up the civilian supplies. "So far, the Iraqi generals have seen the easygoing, sentimental and fair-minded parts of our personality. But rumor has it that the Marines are developing itchy trigger fingers as revenge for their fallen brothers fills their hearts. Our pilots are getting tired of blowing up empty buildings in Baghdad. Our line generals, just about finished making friends, are looking forward to giving the orders to start influencing (Iraqi) people. "And Americans from sea to shining sea have visions of daisycutters dancing in our heads. . . . (E)xpending the lives of American soldiers in order to save the lives of Iraqi civilians is not a transaction Americans will look kindly on for long." - Columnist Tony Blankley *************************************** Reality Check "The United States is at war. We weren't aware we were at war until September 11, 2001, but the war began well before then. Muslim extremists attacked Army Rangers in Somalia in 1993; the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996; our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; the USS Cole in the port of Aden in 2000, but we didn't connect the dots. It took a horrible slaughter on our own soil before we paid attention to the gathering danger. "We are at war with Islamic extremists who hate us because we are rich and powerful, because we don't enslave women or murder Jews. We are guilty of no provocation, save our mere existence. So this is not a conflict that can be resolved by appeasement or negotiation. We must destroy them, or they will destroy us." - Columnist, retired Marine and Green Beret Jack Kelly *************************************** Now This Is Stupid "U.S. troops facing Iraqi guerrillas may shoot, bomb and kill in the course of combat, but if they use tear gas or pepper spray to subdue enemy combatants, even in an attempt to save Iraqi civilians, they risk violating the Chemical Weapons Treaty, signed by the United States in 1993. "...Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld addressed the problem in testimony on Capitol Hill last month. He said that, according to the law, if troops found enemy troops holding hostages in a cave, they could not use tear gas to flush them out and possibly save lives. 'We are doing our best to live within the straitjacket that has been imposed on us on this subject, ' he said. 'Our forces are allowed to shoot somebody and kill them, but they are not allowed to use a nonlethal riot-control agent under the law.'" - Washington Times, 3/30/03 ************************************ 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. *************************************** Press Dishing It Out, But Sure Can't Take It It often seems the American press is more hostile to the war and the Bush administration than Al Jazeera (see Peter Arnett story below). Constant badgering and demands to know "when will it be over" resulted in a White House official this week labeling reporters as "silly." He was being kind. Offended reporters, in turn, responded to this criticism as if somebody had snatched away their lollipop. What a bunch of whiny little babies. They ought to be sent to their room until the adults are finished with this job. *************************************** Vietnam Syndrome Infects Nostalgic Press "Visions of another Vietnam are growing -not in Iraq -but in the nostalgic minds of aging boomers employed by the New York Times, ABC News and some of the reporting and feature pages (but not the editorial page) of The Washington Post. "Before they completely end their productive years, these now-senior editors, producers and on-air news readers apparently hope to relive their glory days, now 35 years in the past, when they were a part of a great, unwashed movement that undercut our fighting men in Vietnam by sapping the will of much of the American public." - Washington Times editorial, 3/29/03 *************************************** And the Winner of the Jane Fonda Award Is. ...NBC's Peter Arnett. Disguised as an independent and unbiased "journalist," Arnett appeared Sunday on Iraqi TV - that's right, IRAQI TV! - and proceeded to dump all over the U.S. military action. It was pure anti-American propaganda and without question gave "aid and comfort" to the Saddam regime. Arnett, you may recall, was fired from CNN several years ago after being caught producing the false Tailwind story about Vietnam soldiers. This is a guy with a definite grudge against U.S. fighting men and women. Here's where you can find one description of the "interview" Arnett gave to Iraqi TV yesterday as a "professional courtesy." But the actual video, showing this pompous ass and his loathsome attitude was far worse than the actual words. <http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/30/sprj.irq.arnett/index.html> Folks visiting the MSNBC website - which has a wartime relationship with Arnett - can go to this page to send Arnett "a message and wish him safety in Baghdad." http://www.msnbc.com/news/891269.asp My note to Arnett wished him something a little less than "safety"; something about hoping the Navy shoves a Tomahawk missile somewhere I can't exactly describe in mixed company. But I think you get my drift. You can also write the pooh-bahs at MSNBC and call for Arnett's head on a platter by emailing them at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************** Biased Reporting Without Perspective ".(B)anner headlines of major newspapers...screamed about the number of coalition troops who had died - one said 16 and another 20 - early in the fighting, ignoring the fact that in most any other conflict in the last century so few deaths would have been considered a major victory." - Columnist Dan Thomasson *************************************** BBC Bias "The (British Broadcasting Corp.'s) coverage has been so unstintingly slanted against the war that those who tune in should be excused for believing that BBC stands for Biased Broadcasting Corp., or thinking that they were receiving NPR with a British accent." - "Nobles & Knaves," 3/29/03 **************************************** CNN a la Francaise "President Jacques Chirac has ordered his officials to draw up plans for a French-language international television channel to counter the growing influence of the British Broadcasting Corp. and CNN. . . . (He) has become increasingly irritated by the 'Anglo-Saxon' view of global events beamed around the world, the London Daily Telegraph reported." - "World Scene," Washington Times, 3/30/03 *************************************** French Pantyhose Up in a Bunch The Associated Press reports that the French government is showing signs of fear "that its image as an untrustworthy friend could seriously damage long-term relations with Washington." Duh. I wonder how Americans could have possibly developed such an image? Could it have something to do with France's unilateral obstruction in the United Nations over the past several months? Nah. Could it have something to do with French President Jack Chirac referring to Britain and the United States as "the belligerents" in Iraq? Nah. Could it have been France's Foreign Minister refusing to say who he was rooting for in the Iraq war this week? Nah. Could it be memories of France's failure way back in the Reagan days to allow our pilots to fly over their airspace to deliver a well-deserved punch in the mouth to Libya's Ghadafi? Nah. Who in their right mind could possibly think France was "an untrustworthy friend"? Other than Tom Daschle, I mean. *************************************** Open Mouth, Shoot Foot Under heavy fire, Tom "Boom Boom" Daschle reversed course and said last week his outrageous remarks blaming President Bush for failing so miserably at diplomacy were "ill-timed." The South Dakota Democrat weaseled, "I had no idea when I said them what the timing of the military operation would be." In the immortal words of Col. Sherman T. Potter: Horse-hockey! If Daschle didn't know "what the timing of the military operation would be," he must have been on another planet. Everyone in the world knew. The President had given Saddam Hussein 48 hours to get out of town...or else. 48 hours. What part of this did Daschle have "no idea" about? The man is a shameless, Bush-hating partisan who shot himself in the foot while it was in his mouth and is now trying to repair the damage. I hope Americans don't forget or let him get away with it. I sure won't. **************************************** History Repeats Itself "Sgt. Asan Akbar.(is accused of)...lobbing hand grenades and aiming his M-4 automatic rifle into three tents filled with sleeping commanding officers at the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade operations center in Kuwait. "...In an eerie parallel to the Akbar case, (John) Muhammad is suspected of throwing a thermite grenade into a tent housing 16 of his fellow soldiers as they slept before the ground-attack phase of the first Gulf war in 1991. . . . Although Mr. Muhammad was led away in handcuffs and transferred to another company pending charges for the grenade attack, an indictment never materialized. Mr. Muhammad was honorably discharged from the Army in 1994. "Eight years later, he was arrested in the 21-day (Washington, DC) Beltway (sniper) shooting spree that left 10 dead and three wounded." - Columnist Michelle Malkin *********************************** The Goldwater Doctrine "I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." - Barry Goldwater, "The Conscience of a Conservative" To help promote the "Goldwater Doctrine" in public policy and government, join the Goldwater Project by going to: http://chuckmuth.com/goldwater.htm ********************************* ********************************* 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. 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