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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS April 26, 2004 To view the HTML version of today�s News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ DON�T MESS WITH THE MARINES! �Early in the morning we exchanged gunfire with a group of insurgents without significant loss. As morning progressed, the enemy fed more men into the fight and we responded with stronger force. Unfortunately, this led to injuries as our Marines and sailors started clearing the city block by block. "The enemy did not run; they fought us like soldiers. And we destroyed the enemy like only Marines can. By the end of the evening the local hospital was so full of their dead and wounded that they ran out of space to put them. . . . Previous to yesterday, the terrorists thought that we were soft enough to challenge. As of tonight, the message is loud and clear that the Marines will not be beaten.� - Dispatch from a Marine Corps officer on the fighting in Fallujah, �Inside the Ring,� 4/23/04 ANOTHER UN FAILURE �In a major blow to international hopes, Greek Cypriots yesterday in a referendum massively rejected a U.N. plan to unite the island torn by more than three decades of ethnic division,� reports the Washington Times on Sunday. According to the report, �the estimated 200 specialists who drafted the 9,000-page U.N. plan were criticized for using facile formulas without considering the tensions, passions and history of the island.� Um, remind me again which presidential candidate wants to turn Iraq and other vital American international concerns over to the...United Nations. SCANDAL OF MAJOR PROPORTIONS �It is a scandal of major proportions and an historic breach of trust by an institution that purports to be the world's best hope for advancing human rights. Yet, the multibillion-dollar scandal involving the United Nations Oil-for-Food program has received only scant media attention. ��(T)he the U.N. was entrusted to sell Iraqi oil and use the proceeds to buy food and medicine for Iraqis starved and neglected under Saddam's rule. Instead, humanitarian needs were ignored and the program � either through ineptness, corruption or both � became a magnet for terrorists, criminals and people of ill repute of all stripes. . . . The Oil-for-Food corruption is immense. The General Accounting Office reports that through combined smuggling and illegal surcharges on oil sales, Saddam's regime stole more than $10 billion under U.N. managers' watchful eyes.� - Thomas Kilgannon of the Freedom Alliance UN-SCAM �Gen. Tommy Franks dubbed the program �Oil for Palaces.� Internet wags call it UNSCAM. �If the United States doesn't force the United Nations to come clean about the deeply corrupted Oil for Food program and account for billions of skimmed Iraqi oil dollars, then we're not merely fools, we're party to the further degradation of a vital international institution.� - Columnist Austin Bay HANOI JOHN �We don't need a Jane Fonda as commander in chief." - Rep. Randy �Duke� Cunningham, California Republican, marking the 33rd anniversary of John Kerry�s 1971 testimony before Congress in which he accused fellow soldiers of committing war atrocities DINNER DIPLOMACY �I don�t know where John Kerry eats, or what restaurants he attends in New York City, but I tell you, at the Taste of Texas - it�s this great steakhouse in Houston, Texas - the only foreign leader you meet there is called filet mignon.� - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Kerry�s claim to have bumped into foreign leaders who don�t like George Bush while dining in New York THE WAFFLE KING �I just want to make sure Senator Kerry understands that just because you go into an International House of Pancakes does not mean you are meeting with foreign leaders - unless of course you are referring to their Belgian waffles, stuffed French toast or German pancakes. But at least he would feel comfortable, since IHOP flips pancakes as often as he flips on issues.� - Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida Republican BROKEN �We have a system that doesn�t work.� - Rep. John Mica, Florida Republican, on the airport screening system now run by government employees under the TSA SURVEY SAYS! This fall, airports may consider replacing the government-run TSA airport screeners with private companies. Is it time to re-privatize the airport security checkpoints? * Yes * No * I�m a Kerry Democrat...Yes AND No Cast your vote by clicking the �Survey Says!� tab at www.citizenoutreach.com SO MUCH FOR RATIONAL DISCUSSION �The Republican Party's central committee in northern New Mexico's Sandoval County, saying county Clerk Victoria Dunlap �has brought disgrace to the party,� voted to censure her for issuing same-sex marriage licenses,� reports the Associated Press. "Other than assassination, all we can do is censure her," said committee chairman Richard Gibbs. �Other than assassination�? That doesn�t sound like a very Christian attitude. Nice going, Chairman. BLACK MEN CAN�T SWIM �The police department in this seaside town (North Miami, Florida) has dropped its swimming requirement for new officers - in part to recruit more blacks to the force. . . . �They have been intimidated because they don�t swim. Very few of them swim,� said Mayor Joe Celestin, who is Haitian-American.� - �American Scene,� 4/23/04 IMMIGRATION NATION An in-depth special report (�Human Tsunami�) on the problems being cause by illegal aliens in Los Angeles appears in Sunday�s Washington Times. It includes this quote by Hispanic immigrant Ines Netkin: �It wouldn�t be so bad if they (illegals) would adapt to our ways, but they don�t. We have to adapt to their ways. Whatever happened to, �When in Rome�?� It�s the kind of report amnesty supporters such as Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) don�t want you to read. Catch it at: http://washingtontimes.com/specialreport/20040425-120740-3235r.htm MORE THAN A DIME�S WORTH OF DIFFERENCE �Sen. Arlen Specter's fight for his political life against a conservative challenger is more than a tight primary race, it stands as a struggle for survival of a dying breed: moderate Republicans in an increasingly polarized Senate. The four-term incumbent has the second-most centrist voting record in a GOP class largely made up of conservatives elected to the Senate following the 1994 �Republican Revolution� that gave the GOP control of the House and Senate. His independent ideology and willingness to side with Democrats on social and economic issues have long irked rank-and-file conservatives who are now cheering on Republican Rep. Pat Toomey in Tuesday's primary. �...Specter's lifetime Senate voting record gives him a 43 percent approval rating from the American Conservative Union and 59 percent from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Only Republican Rep. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island has a higher liberal and lower conservative rating among the number of moderate Republican senators that is dwindling to about a half dozen. . . . By contrast, Toomey has lifetime approval ratings of 96 and 5 percent from the conservative and liberal groups.� - Associated Press, 4/23/04 THE (CAMPAIGN) DOCTOR IS IN! You can�t change public policy if you don�t change public officials. So Citizen Outreach has established a separate website project dedicated to helping under-funded, underdog campaigns...especially at the state and local levels. Visit today...and make sure you sign up for FREE email �hot tips� on how to get more votes, more money and more volunteers for your campaign or grassroots organization. Go to: www.campaigndoctor.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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