The Straight Scoop from Charlie Daniels

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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
 
The email I got also included his pix and signature. Both can be copied, but it looked real to me.

Thx Charlie!
 
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Source? Reads like one of those goofy chain emails attributed to Ted Nugent or somebody like that

Yes, this is the real deal. Charlie Daniels is one of the most patriotic entertainers in the industry.

He performs benefit concerts for the Armed Forces frequently, at his own expense.

On a personal level, he is a Christian, honest & straightforward give-you-the-shirt-off-his-back kind of guy. He's outspoken, offends the hell out of the liberal left and doesn't apologize for it. He's an American and a Rebel and proud of it.
 
It sounds as though the detainees are continuing to resist their captors.

I was taught a similar lesson by the Navy, should I ever be captured.



I guess I don't understand, if they are killers of the worst kind, why one wouldn't want to try, convict and punish them.

Of course, some of these killers of the worst kind have been released since Charlie's 2002 visit.
 
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It sounds as though the detainees are continuing to resist their captors. I was taught a similar lesson by the Navy, should I ever be captured. I guess I don't understand, if they are killers of the worst kind, why one wouldn't want to try, convict and punish them. Of course, some of these killers of the worst kind have been released since Charlie's 2002 visit.
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I was taught the same, although by a different branch.

The whole IDEA of even TAKING PRISONERS IN WAR confuses the hell out
of me. It leads to too many problems. If they were just killed in the 1st
place we wouldn't have ANY of these problems to deal with. It may sound a
bit harsh to some, but in this age where someone will cry about ANYTHING,
and you can get reamed no matter what you do, its best if we leave them
nothing to cry about.
 
If they were just killed in the 1st place we wouldn't have ANY of these problems to deal with.
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The Japanese had this attitude, too. At the end of the war many POW camp commandants attempted to preserve the honor of their American prisoners by killing them, so they wouldn't return home in shame.

For some reason, we didn't take a charitable view of this service.



I'm kinda a fan of the pertinent Geneva Convention articles, myself.
 
The whole IDEA of even TAKING PRISONERS IN WAR confuses the hell out
of me. It leads to too many problems. If they were just killed in the 1st
place we wouldn't have ANY of these problems to deal with.
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Wow, spoken like someone who has no idea what they are talking about, IMHO.

Dead men tell no tales. They certainly will not tell you who their leaders, cell members, financiers, or subordinates are. They won't tell you what these people look like, where they live, where they work, what they drive, what defensive measures they have taken, etc. They won't tell you where they get their weapons, what kind of weapons they have, where they hide them, or how they transport them.

Not every detainee will talk. It is a fact of life. But some do. And the information they give leads to other insurgents being caught on our terms, not theirs. We don't have to wait for them to attack us before we can get them. This saves the lives of my fellow soldiers. It also saves the lives of innocent people would be caught in the crossfire otherwise.

Derius, you were taught to resist your captors. So was I. But if you were a prisoner and some enemy soldier knew where you and your fellow PWs were, would you want me to capture and interrogate him to find that out, or would you want me to shoot him in the street, because he might complain that I yelled at him? There are a few hostages out there right now. The least I can do is try to find out what happened to them, for their family's sake. But a dead insurgent will not tell me if he has seen a hostage, what their status is, or where they are. Even if the hostage is dead, they may be able to lead me to the body, so the family has closure. I'd rather know what happened to my kid than dream about him being tortured by a sadistic killer like Zarqawi every night.

So before you decide to close my facility and put me out of a job, remember that interrogators work for military intelligence for a reason. To get intelligence that can be acted on in order to save American lives. Thus endeth the sermon, I will get off of my soapbox now.
 
Well, I have to admit, I was being a bit overzealous earlier, but or COURSE I
believe IF people surrender, you have to take them, not kill them, and if they
are taken and detained they MUST be treated fairly. Its just that the whole
prisoner abuse thing has got me real hot under the collar. Its rediculous.
I mean, they can cut our heads off, but if we smack them around a bit, we're
just as bad as them? It sickens me. So WHAT. We stripped a few of them
naked and put leashes on them. Big deal. There are prominent men the
world over who pay good money to be treated like that. :rolleyes:


And on another note, we strip em naked, and careers get ended, but we do
the SAME thing to our own people in the AIRPORT, and nothing happens.....
go figure.......... :rolleyes:
 
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