Gunner's Blog

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