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| richfed |
Posted - September 28 2002 : 07:38:52 AM
Subject: Charlie Daniels, famed musician, writes re his Guantanamo Bay trip
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 scumbags 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 Talibans 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.
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| Ilse |
Posted - October 23 2002 : 04:07:22 AM
To me the treatment of these prisoners was never a source for concern, however their lack of any official status is and will be even if they're given caviar and champagne for breakfast 
I am glad to read today, though, there are some new and positive developments in this:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021023/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_prisoners_7
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| Christina |
Posted - October 22 2002 : 11:14:02 AM
I respect ol'Charlie's position but I wish he'd endorse a better media source than Fox News. They're no better than all the rest of the strident TV broadcasts. (Yes, I work in print media, and yes, I don't think very much of most broadcast TV.) You want to get some good informative reporting about things going on related to terrorism, international relations, etc? Read a newspaper. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, or go online and check out all the print media available there, from our country's main papers to the Jerusalem Post, The London Times, etc. I've basically started to assume you're not going to get any balanced or thoughtful reporting from TV. I can't stand Fox, but that's just because they're about the same quality as the rest of TV...
I like the way Charlie writes, though, he's nice and direct!
Christina
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| SgtMunro |
Posted - October 21 2002 : 05:39:11 AM
Excellent post, Rich, I enjoyed reading it very much.
Your Humble Servant,
Sgt. Duncan Munro
Capt. Graham's Coy
1/42nd Royal Highlanders
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