The Politics Of War

[Dunster]

Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:55:52 EDT
Subject: Re: Fw: Charlie Daniels from
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Naval Air Station
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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 CampX-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
Muslim 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 air time. 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

[Dunster]

John O'Neill was the FBI investigator who knew before anyone else who Osama bin Laden was and the threat to the U.S. he and his Al Qaeda network posed. Yet, because he was considered by some higher-ups in his organization as a "maverick," they stopped listening, and started to let personal politics affect their decision-making. After the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, many felt it was safe and no longer a potential target. O'Neill, on the other hand, eventually became convinced that it was just a failed attempt and that they would try again one day to finish off what they had started. As attacks on U.S. interests abroad increased, O'Neill was more and more convinced that a major attack was coming and that it would be at the hands of Al Qaeda. Unfortunately, even after serving key positions at the FBI's Washington and New York offices and showing unique qualifications for the job, O'Neill was repeatedly passed over for promotion. His insistence on more manpower, jurisdiction, and bolder investigations abroad were repeatedly denied. Even before he was assigned to terrorism investigations, O'Neill established and championed inter agency cooperative efforts, and yet his own agency was being uncooperative with him. Eventually, his detractors managed to make it extremely difficult for him to get anything done, so when the opportunity came to be the head of security at the World Trade Center, he decided to retire from the FBI. That was late August 2001, and the rest is history. I'm sure he was the first to see the tragic irony on that day in September. I'm sure he knew in his gut who was behind the attacks, and I'm sure he could rightfully have been the first to say, "I told you so." He died on 9- 11-01 in the north tower.


"The Man Who Knew" (streaming video)

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/view/

[Dunster]

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