Charlie Daniels on camp Xray

[Marissa]

> Subject: NEWS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY ----- The Straight
> Scoop
> I've just returned from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
> Naval Air
> Station, 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 we treat these
> 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
> 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. What do you
> think?
> God Bless America
> Charlie Daniels
> Copyright 2002 Charlie Daniels

[SEATJERKER]

...He said it as good, correct, Yes, Si`, Oui , as it needs to be said...

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[reconeil]

There's not much that anyone can add to Charlie Daniel's honest assessment of a sorry-a$$ situation,...other thank you very, very much for sharing.

Still, it is a further sorry-a$$ situation that as a supposedly Free and supposedly well informed American, I must get THE REAL TRUTH about important matters from a Country-Western Star or only The Fox channel.

One would think that The Mainstream Press/Media in general (once referred to as: "The Guardians of The Public") would relay such truths covered,...over and over and over adnaseam, much like "They" normally do with infinitely less important politicized variations of matters of importance. But then,...what-the-hell do I know? I'm only one of The Subjects here in Lordly America.

Besides, such rare honesty as CD'S deserves as many replies as is possible. Wouldn't you think?

Neil

[Marissa]

I agree wholeheartedly Neil...it irks the hell out of me to hear all the lies and half truths as if we are that stupid...I commend people like Charlie who will stand up against them and tell what they see and how the see it (the truth) I only wished more people would do the same instead of hiding behind all this fake BS they like to feed us.

[RobH]

Is that the "talking heads" have gotten so pampered and are paid so much that they believe that they are above it. Plus they have gotten away with murder all these years.....afterall, when they get done "telling their side of the story"....and it isn't at all true.....who is going to correct them or set the record straight? Another network?