Once again Charlie Daniels speaks his feelings and
once again he is right on the money. Charlie needs to be writing for a
major news magazine.
The Straight Scoop from
Charlie Daniels
I've just returned from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Naval Air
Station base where we did three shows for the troops and toured several
locations around the post visiting with some of the finest military
personnel on planet earth. The kids seemed to really enjoy the shows and
especially liked "This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag" and "In
America". We had a great time with them.
We saw Camp
X-Ray, where the
Taliban detainees are being held only from a distance, but I picked up a
lot of what's going on there from talking with a lot of different people.
The truth of the matter is that this operation is under a microscope. The
Red Cross has an on site presence there and watches everything that goes
on very closely. The media is not telling you the whole truth about
what's going on over there. The truth is that these scum bags are not
only being treated humanely, but they are probably better off healthwise
and medically than they've ever been in their lives. They are fed well,
able to take showers and receive state of the art medical care. And have
their own Moslem chaplain. I saw several of them in a field hospital ward
where they were being treated in a state of the art medical facility.
Now let's talk about the way they treat our people.
First of all, they have to be watched constantly. These people are
committed and wanton murderers who are willing to die just to kill
someone else. One of the doctors told me that when they had Taliban in
the hospital the staff had to really be careful with needles, pens and
anything else which could possibly be used as a weapon. They also throw
their excrement and urine on the troops who are guarding them. And our
guys and gals have shown great restraint in not retaliating. We are
spending over a million dollars a day maintaining and guarding these
nasty killers and anyone who wants to see them brought to the U.S.A. for
trial is either out of their heads or a lawyer looking for money and
notoriety. Or both.
I wish that the media and the Red Cross and all the
rest of the people who are so worried about these criminals would realize
that this is not a troop of errant Boy Scouts. These are killers of the worst kind. They don't need protection from us,
we need protection from them. If you don't get anything else out of this
soapbox, please try to realize that when you see news coverage much of
the time you're not getting the whole story, but an account filtered
through a liberal mindset with an agenda.
We have two fights on our hands, the war against terror
and the one against the loudmouthed lawyers and left wing media who would
sap the strength from the American public by making us believe that we're
losing the war or doing something wrong in fighting it. Remember these
are the same people who told us that Saddam Hussein's Republican guard
was going to be an all but invincible enemy and that our smart bombs and
other weapons were not really as good as the military said that they
were.
They also took up for Bill Clinton while he was
cavorting around the Oval office with Monica Lewinsky while the
terrorists were gaining strength and bombing our Embassies and dragging
the bodies of dead American heroes around the dusty streets of Somalia.
It's a shame that we can't have an unbiased media who would just report
the truth and let us make up our own minds.
Here I must commend Fox News for presenting both sides
much better than the other networks. They are leaving the other cable
networks in the dust. People like being told the truth.
Our military not only needs but deserves our support.
Let's give it to them.
The next time you read a media account about the bad
treatment of the Taliban in Cuba, remember what I told
you. Been there done that.
Footnote: I got an e-mail from
a rather irate first cousin of mine the other day who has a daughter
who's a lawyer and she seemed to think that I was painting all lawyers
with the same brush. Please understand that I'm not doing that at all.
That would be like saying that all musicians were drug addicts. There are
a lot of good and honest attorneys out there. I happen to have one of
them. But it seems that they never get any airtime. It's always the
radicals who get their opinions heard, who fight the idea of the military
tribunals and cite The Constitution and the integrity of America
as their source of justifying
their opinions. Well, first of all The Constitution says "We the people
of the United
States", it doesn't mention any
other country.
And secondly as far as integrity is concerned, I don't think some of
these folks would know integrity if it bit them in the posterior.
What do you think? God Bless America.
Charlie Daniels
P.S. send this to everyone you can...the truth needs to
be told. THE REASON A DOG HAS SO MANY FRIENDS IS THAT HE WAGS HIS TAIL -
NOT HIS TONGUE
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