good idea... just make sure they're given one-way tickets.
Does anyone know if red cross has an office at gitmo? I suspect that they do.
Durbin has never visited Gitmo. Imagine that!
I think someone's bluff has been called. Bush and company are playing poker while the left is playing "Go Fish."
Good idea - although when I was a freshman in college, the Freshman Dining Hall would always vastly improve the quality of the food on parent's weekend, leading the parents to ask what we were all griping about. So the Dems will probably just claim that the place was gussied up for their visit.
Someone on one of the shows said the other day that OUR troops sleep 6 to a room. A room of equal size sleeps one terrorist.
Just make sure that the visitors are not allowed to communicate with the prisoners. The last thing we need is to further enable treason.
http://redleg07.blogspot.com/2005/06/charle-daniels-on-gitmo.html
Charle Daniels on GITMO
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. This has been out for a while but it needs to be repeated, again and again until the truth is heard.
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 jus tifying 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.
Rumsfeld Promises Durbin Better Treatment at Gitmo
by Scott Ott
(2006-06-16) -- Just a day after Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin compared U.S. personnel at the military detention facility at Guantanamo to those who worked in Nazi concentration camps, Soviet gulags and in Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised the Illinois Senator that he would receive better treatment during his own Gitmo captivity.
"The unspeakable cruelties that Sen. Durbin decried on the Senate floor must stop before his own detention on treason charges," said Mr. Rumsfeld. "After all, Dick Durbin is an American citizen, not an ordinary enemy combatant bent on destroying this nation and increasing the danger to our troops by inflaming the passions of the Muslim world."
A spokesman said Sen. Durbin is still a free man and a patriot, and he has drafted legislation renaming a favorite Gitmo menu item to reflect his solidarity with the oppressed Muslim inmates.
Under the measure, the dish made of ground, spiced and fried chick peas would be called: "Freedom Falafel."
And they'd better not eat any of the roast pheasant---that's for the detainees.
Since when did the left oppose Pol Pot? They attacked those fighting Pot, they defended the indefensible KR regime, they denied it was happening, when that wouldn't work anymore they tried to blame it on Nixon. Which is like trying to blame Winston Churchill for the death camps because he ordered Berlin bombed.
Since when did the left oppose Stalin? They attacked those who fought against Stalin. They played smash mouth when the gulag atrocities were revealed. They defended "revolutionary terror". They defended traitors who worked for Stalin, and smashed anyone who criticized those traitors. Leftists stole plans for the atom bomb and gave them to Joe Stalin, and the left defended those caught doing it. Leftists denied the terror famines, said New Soviet Man was going to save the world. They never stopped. They were still defending communists the day before the Berlin wall fell.
As for the Nazis, the left is defending them right this minute. The Baathist party running the terror war in Iraq is a Nazi party. It was founded by Nazis, allied to the Nazis during the war, aped the Nazis in policies, ran its own death camps, gased its own citizens, and they all want it left alone, and for our troops to leave, and let those Nazis back into power. The terrorists in the camps in Gitmo are Nazis. They saw off the heads of any Jew they can find because they are Nazis, no other reason needed. And the left is defending them as we speak.
So, where do they get off accusing moral men of things they have defended the real instances of for seven decades? As though they care about them. The only thing they care about is the defeat of the United States of America and smashing capitalism and freedom. It is all they have ever cared about and it is all they care about now.
Or as Rush would say, this was done at Waco. And the President was Cllinton. American citizens -- men, women, and children were tormented for weeks on end. Where were the cries of inhumane treatment? There were none. None from the dems. I suspect they care more about our enemy than about innocent children burned to death because they see this as a way to hurt Bush. I'm charmed -- as usual.
Move Gitmo to northern Alaska.