I received this in e-mail from another forum that I post on.
NEWS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY -----
The Straight Scoop By 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 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 site 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
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