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**************************************** How to Subscribe If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com. **************************************** Well, If Clinton Says It, It Must Be True "It is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons (in Iraq)." - Bill Clinton on Larry King Live, 7/22/03 ***************************************** Funny Is Funny "President Bush said that he will not send troops to Liberia until he gets some bogus intelligence from the CIA to justify it." - Tonight Show host Jay Leno **************************************** Somalia Redux Many Democrats and their presidential candidates opposed and/or are now criticizing the war in Iraq are calling on the president to immediately send troops to Liberia. But as David Keene of the American Conservative Union notes, "It is virtually impossible to make any argument for intervention anchored in our nation's security interests." Keene adds, "if one accepts the traditional view that the United States should operate not as a world policeman but rather a nation that resorts to force sparingly, and then only when its just interests are threatened, then the case against Iraq remains strong but against Liberia is well nigh nonexistent. Politically, Liberia is not Iraq, but it might be Somalia." *************************************** Campaign Hot Tips New to campaigns and grassroots activism? Seasoned veteran who recognizes there's always something new to learn? Then sign up for Mark Montini's FREE "Campaign Hot Tips" e-newsletter at: http://www.campaignsecrets.com/hot_tips.asp **************************************** In Baghdad, Joyous Celebration... "In Baghdad, the news (of Uday's and Qusay's deaths) was greeted throughout the city with joyous volleys of gunfire. People stood on their rooftops and emptied clip after clip of bullets into a night already aglow with tracer fire. . . . But at least one man voiced disappointment that Uday, who ran much of Iraq's media and sport with a heavy hand, had been killed. 'I don't want him dead. I want to torture him first,' said Alaa Hamed, who was a producer at Uday's television station. He said Uday beat him with electrical cables when he made mistakes." - National Post, 7/23/03 **************************************** In Donkeyland, Bitter Disappointment... "Rep. Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, is getting to be one of the most irresponsible members of Congress. . . . Yesterday, notes NewsMax.com, Rangel appeared on Fox News Channel's 'Hannity & Colmes,' where he implied that the killings were assassinations: 'We have a law on the books that United States should not be assassinating anybody,' he said. (Actually, that's not true; it's an executive order, not a law.) . . . 'How can you get so much satisfaction out of the fact that two bums have been killed? We got bums all over the world and some in the United States. I personally don't get any satisfaction that it takes, you know, 200,000 troops, 250,000 troops, to knock off two bums.'" - Best of the Web, 7/23/03 **************************************** The Sandbox Doctrine My own unique reasoning in support of the effort to take out Saddam Hussein was based on my experiences at the playground. When a bunch of kids act up, it's not necessary to punish all of them. Just pick out one main culprit and make an example out of him. The rest then fall right into line. Seems the President's use of my "Sandbox Doctrine" in Iraq is having the desired effect on bad boys around the globe, as further evidenced by this recent statement from Moammar Gadhafi's son to CNN's Judy Woodruff: "I would like to send this message to the American people and the American government that we, the Libyan people, we want to have a more constructive and fruitful relationship with the Americans. . . . We don't want confrontation and aggression and, you know, to fight anymore. It's over. It's behind us now. It's dead with the Cold War." **************************************** John Wayne Diplomacy "Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports that the sensitive New Age Dick Gephardt weighed in this morning: ' 'Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black,' Gephardt, who supported the war in Iraq, said in remarks prepared for delivery to the San Francisco Bar Association.' . . . Just to spite Gephardt, we're going to go hoist a few cold ones tonight in honor of the American soldiers who killed the Hussein boys." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 7/22/03 ***************************************** Missed It By THAT Much "Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt has fallen short of his campaign fund-raising goal by a million dollars. The goal was to raise a million dollars." - Tonight Show host Jay Leno **************************************** Hard Times "Times in this country are tough. We're at war, there's not many new jobs, the economy is bad, and we have a growing deficit. Still the Democrats are asking, 'How are we going to beat this guy?'" - Late Show host David Letterman ************************************ 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.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com> today. **************************************** Stark Raving Lunatic "Rep. Fortney 'Pete' Stark, D-Calif., is the foul-mouthed poster boy for Liberal Double Standards. There he was on Capitol Hill last week, sounding more like Eminem than an eminent lawmaker, hurling epithets such as 'fruitcake' and 'c-ks----r' at Republicans during a mark-up session on pension funds legislation of all things. . . . (But) Stark's blatantly thuggish behavior has once again gotten a pass from the establishment Left. "...Homosexual rights groups, whose fax machines and phone lines would have been on fire had the comments been made by any prominent conservative, shrugged at Stark's remarks. 'I think he meant nothing by it,' Human Rights Campaign official Winnie Stachelberg told Fox News. In his own defense, Stark claims 'fruitcake means inept, crazy, a nut cake to me.' No word on what liberally construed definition Stark cites for 'c-ks----r.'" - Columnist Michelle Malkin ****************************************** Oops...New Chapter for Hillary's Living History "Gennifer Flowers may proceed with a lawsuit that accuses Hillary Rodham Clinton of conspiring with two men to defame her during the 1992 presidential election campaign, a federal judge in Las Vegas has ruled. U.S. District Judge Philip Pro dismissed Flowers' lawsuit nearly three years ago, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated the case in November. "Flowers filed a fourth version of her lawsuit in February against Clinton, former presidential aides James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, and book publisher Little, Brown & Co. The lawsuit's claims include defamation, false light and conspiracy. In an order entered Monday, Pro granted a motion by Clinton to dismiss the defamation and false light claims against her, but allowed the conspiracy claim to proceed against Clinton and the former presidential aides." - Las Vegas Review Journal, 7/23/03 ***************************************** Union Goes Nuts Over Postal Reform "(On Wednesday) The (President's Commission on the Future of the Postal Service) called on the post office to cut its work force while increasing automation; to establish a bonus, or pay-for-performance, system for managers and union members; to set up a security system to track mail; and to make changes in its collective bargaining process. "...The commission recommendations most likely to draw controversy were those dealing with its work force and collective bargaining. Indeed, these were the only recommendations not approved unanimously. . . . William Burrus, president of the American Postal Workers Union, charged that the commission wants to shred the collective bargaining process. 'We'll be talking to Congress ... to ensure that none of this sees the light of day,' Burrus said." - Associated Press, 7/23/03 *************************************** Bush Just Says No to Drug Re-Importation "The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 2427, which would waive existing health and safety standards with regard to prescription drugs imported from foreign sources without adequate assurances that such products are safe and effective. . . . The bill would open new channels for the importation of drugs into the United States without a workable system of oversight and enforcement, allowing counterfeit, adulterated, inactive, and unapproved drugs to enter the country. These products are potentially injurious to public health and pose a threat to the security of our Nation's drug supply. . . . H.R. 2427 is dangerous legislation." - Statement of Administration Policy released July 23, 2003 **************************************** Death in a Bottle For those of you who still think the danger to our drug supply via re-importation is remote, we take you now to the Sunshine State: "Florida agents broke up what they called one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical counterfeiting rings on Monday, arresting the alleged ringleader in his Weston mansion and 17 of his operatives, including his wife, brother-in-law and mother-in-law," reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Tuesday. "Drug wholesaler Michael A. Carlow headed a group that peddled tens of millions of dollars of phony, expired, relabeled and diluted medications to distributors for sale throughout the country in recent years, state officials said." The counterfeiters "aimed mainly at expensive, injectable drugs such as the blood boosters Procrit, Epogen and Neupogen, and the growth hormone Serostim. But recently, agents have tied Florida wholesalers to adulterated medications for such everyday ailments as asthma and arthritis. Carlow's group peddled some or all of the phony bottles of cholesterol drug Lipitor from overseas that wound up in the country's drugstores this year, investigators said. As many as 200,000 bottles had to be recalled. It's unclear how many of the bad drugs reached pharmacy shelves." "Tampering with medicine has been so lucrative that many of those arrested lived in million-dollar homes," reports the paper. "Four or five drove Hummer SUVs; others had Cadillac Escalades and Ferraris." Hmmmm. How much easier would such an operation be in...oh, I don't know...how about Syria? Then again, this bust was probably just a PR stunt orchestrated by the evil pharmaceutical companies, right? Yeah, sure. 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