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More from the Federalist.
THE FOUNDATION "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." --Alexander Hamilton
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INSIGHT "We make war that we may live in peace." --Aristotle ++ "A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war." --Sir Francis Bacon {} "Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts." --William O. Douglas {} "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." --Albert Einstein {} "England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war." --Winston Churchill {} "The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war." --Will Rogers
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UPRIGHT "There is no cookie-cutter approach to foreign policy. In the Axis of Evil, one size does not fit all -- nor should it." --Peter Brookes {} "France cynically sees inspections not as a way to disarm Iraq, but to disarm the United States." --James Phillips {} "For all our might and technology, the confluence of terror and WMDs has the power to destroy us -- if we do not destroy it first. We are at the beginning, not the end, of a terrible new age." --Stanley Kurtz {} "It is not the conservative psyche that needs analysis. Conservatives were right in the Cold War -- so right that liberals are pretending they were with us all along -- and they are right about Iraq. It is Leftists who need to account for their consistently disgraceful positions throughout the Cold War and into the War on Terror." --David Limbaugh {} "A free Iraq would not just be an active partner in the war on terror, but its very existence would sap the recruitment strength of the worldwide terror network -- and that factor would spread to neighboring nations as freedom does." --Joel Mowbray {} "If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one." --Alan Caruba
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "The time has come for the president to publicly declare that it is the decision of the United States government to lead an invasion of Iraq with the intent to change the regime as soon as our military is prepared to successfully carry out the mission. ... Further delay only strengthens the political opposition around the world and at home. ... Fundamentally, now is the time when power must replace persuasion. The president must guard against letting prudence and patience turn into dithering and indecision." --Washington Times
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DEZINFORMATSIA Then & Now: "Saddam has driven everybody to the edge here. ...[The president] has more approval to go ahead with military force now than at any time since the Gulf War. ... The goals of the administration are really pretty clear, and that's to raise the price for Saddam if he wants to keep making these weapons. ... We don't want him to have anthrax. ... Do you seriously think if there is an air campaign that people are going to go into the streets and countries are going to condemn America for taking that action? The world wants to be rid of Saddam Hussein." --Eleanor Clift, Nov. 13, 1998 **Under the current Republican administration, Clift, of course, has become a fierce opponent to war with Iraq. ++ "In the president's version of reality, an invasion of Iraq brings democracy to the Middle East, a dividend-tax cut is a good idea and Star Wars is a viable defense plan." --Eleanor Clift {} From the "Sympathy for the Devil" Department: "...[T]here's certainly a strong sense that the diplomacy is coming to a close.... All the signals today were that the weapons inspectors have essentially ended their job, that their course has run, and that there's nothing that the current Iraqi regime could do in the way of disarmament to avoid war. ...Well, that [Bush administration] hard line could complicate some of the diplomacy at the United Nations...." --ABC's Terry Moran on March 3 ++ "We've got the biggest thing that goes boom in the history of the universe and we appear to be rather lofty and pious in our demands that nobody else have one!" --Phil Donahue, insisting on moral equivalency between the U.S. and Iraq, based on the administration's demand that Saddam disarm. {} Red vs. Red, White & Blue: "When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao's little Red Book on every official's desk, omnipresent and unread." --Bill Moyers on PBS's "Now," describing his own flag pin as an attempt to "take back" the flag that has been "hijacked and turned into a logo -- the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism."
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SOCIOCRATS From the Left across the Pond: "There is no doubt that the United States administration would like to go forward into this war. There is no doubt in any member on this side of the House, however much they protest, in their hearts, that this born again, right-wing, Bible-belting, fundamentalist, Republican administration in the United States wants war." --George Galloway, British MP, and apparently opposed to war with Iraq. {} Why the Demos are always a dollar short -- and always one day late: "This war is not necessary at this time. Pressure appears to be having a good result in Iraq. Our mistake was to put ourselves in a corner so quickly. Our challenge is to now find a graceful way out of a box of our own making. Perhaps there is still a way if we allow more time." --West Virginia Demo Sen. Robert Byrd, styled the "Conscience of the Senate." {} From the former Prevaricator-in-Chief: "Unusual experience with the O.I.C. [Office of Independent Counsel]." --Written response to New York jury questionnaire by Prospective Juror No. 142 (AKA Bill Clinton) {} And sometimes they get it right: "The French care so much about the Palestinians, but they don't give a damn about the Iraqis." --Sen. Joe Biden, accusing the French of "grandstanding" over Iraq.
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VILLAGE IDIOTS "Yeah, which is bulls**t frankly, you know. I love my country, enough to risk its wrath by bringing attention to the dark spots, the things that will really hurt us. When we don't have vision, we're blind." --Martin Sheen ++ "I think [Saddam Hussein] is very well aware also that the hawks in this administration have no, they don't care at all whether he complies to arms inspections." --Janeane Garofalo ++ "It's interesting how the actors that are criticized for their political activism always happen to be Democrats.... The press does not criticize Republican actors Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlton Heston for expressing their strongly-held political opinions." --Barbra Streisand {} Busted Villagers: "Speaking of Susan Sarandon (and Sean Penn, Janeane Garofalo, Barbra Streisand, etc.) -- why don't they put their considerable money where their mouths are and offer to go to Iraq and serve as 'human shields' to REALLY show their commitment to their position on war with Iraq? We could make it a television pay-per-view event with the proceeds going to fight for the 'rights' of the prisoners at Gitmo." --Cheri Jacobus {} "I think it was because we were middle class and white and didn't have the elasticity of soul to rise above suffering." --Laura Whitehorn, free after her prison term for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1983, answering a Duke student's inquiry as to why she bombed the Capitol. **Sounds just like an al-Qa'ida rationale -- except for the "white middle class" part!
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SHORT CUTS "If I die, I'd like to come back as Hans Blix's son. You'd never be in any trouble. Any effort would be good enough. Grades would never be bad enough to get you in any trouble. It would be great." --Brit Hume {} "The Democrats, instead of having a smoke-filled room, are having their candidates come by way of an ICU. If he puts his heart into it, he'll be a serious candidate." --Margaret Carlson on Sen. Bob Graham's presidential candidacy {} "Two rules of thumb for protest rallies: Always claim a crowd is 200,000 or so larger than any reasonable estimate, and always insist your demonstrators are all ordinary, stable middle-class folks." --John Leo ++ "The Nazi signs have got to stop. If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that 'Bush is Hitler,' forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler." --Dennis Miller {} "The imperative today is to win the war in Iraq. However, winning the peace will mean not just the reconstruction of Iraq. It will mean replacing an alliance system that died some years ago, but whose obituary was written only this year. In French, with German footnotes." --Charles Krauthammer {} "The Belgians, you knew they'd waffle." --Dennis Miller {} "...[M]ore than half a century of experience shows that the UN is a theater of hypocrisy, a sink of corruption, a street market of sordid bargains and a seminary of cynicism." --Paul Johnson {} "There's something richly comical about the mass exodus of all these pacifists who offered themselves as human shields to protect Iraq from attack. It doesn't seem to have occurred to them that standing in the way of missiles might put their lives in danger." --Rush Limbaugh
Jay Leno.... Iraq agreed "in principle" to destroy their missiles. You know why they said "in principle"? It sounds better than "in your dreams". .... Saddam Hussein has given an exclusive interview to Dan Rather on "60 Minutes" in which he said he has no intention of leaving, stepping down or going into exile. He said he'd rather die than leave. Just like the cast of "60 Minutes." .... The latest word is that Saddam Hussein may have back problems. They think he got it playing softball with Dan Rather. .... I've seen people ask Ron Popeil tougher questions on infomercials. .... You know the saddest thing about the Saddam Hussein interview? He came across more normal than Michael Jackson and Robert Blake. .... It looks like the United Nations is drawing up another resolution to send to Saddam Hussein. I think this is like the 300th one we've sent. Apparently the UN has a secret weapon to kill Hussein -- it's called old age.
David Letterman.... Top Surprises In Dan Rather's Interview with Saddam Hussein: Saddam's responses to American charges were mainly of the "your momma's so fat" variety; The good laugh they shared at how wimpy the French are; Saddam kept calling Dan "Wolf"; The palpable sexual tension; Not only do they get CBS in Iraq, Saddam loves "Becker"; If the United States invades, Saddam would like us to do it in March, after the Baghdad tulip show; Entire interview was Saddam demonstrating a low-impact aerobic workout; Saddam fell for it every time Dan yelled, "Incoming!"; Proudly introduced Dan to the three relatives he hasn't executed; Saddam agreed to disarm if they give him one shot on "American Idol."
Argus Hamilton.... House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss on Sunday hailed the arrest of al-Qa'ida leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. He said it's the War on Terrorism's equivalent of the liberation of Paris in World War II. So he's telling us not to expect any gratitude. .... Saddam Hussein was interviewed [last] Wednesday by Dan Rather on CBS's "60 Minutes." ...[He] told Dan Rather he would never seek asylum elsewhere if Iraq is attacked. He vowed that he would stand and fight and die for his country. What the French think they have in common with Saddam Hussein is the real mystery. .... Dan Rather discussed his Saddam Hussein interview Thursday. He said he would now like to interview North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il. In the cut-throat world of TV journalism, it's not easy trying to stay one lunatic ahead of Barbara Walters. .... San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals banned the Pledge of Allegiance Friday because it says America is under God. It seems risky. The ruling just applies to the nine western states North Korea can currently reach with their nuclear missiles.
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