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 Isn'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 health wise
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
