Just an Opinion

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I know not everyone supports the decision to target Iraq and many people have made the news lately protesting the potential war with Saddam. However, lets not forget the thousands of men and women who don't have that right to protest, but have a duty to defend that right; those people who have chosen to serve in our armed forces. This is easy enough, timely and certainly seems appropriate. To All, Please visit the Department of Defense web page below and sign in thanking the men and women of the U.S. military services for defending our freedom. The compiled list of names will be sent out to our soldiers at the end of the month. So far, there are only about 5,817,265 names from a national population of over 250 million. What a shame. National Military Appreciation Month. The entire exercise takes 10 seconds...literally. Please pass it on to your e-mail friends.
www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html

You don't have to scroll down 500 names to add yours.

"Charlie Daniels' Open Letter to the Hollywood Bunch"



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OK -- Let's just say for a moment you bunch of
pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children
had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into Iraq.



Let's say that you really get your way
and we destroy all our nuclear weapons
and stick daisies in our gun barrels
and sit around with some white wine and cheese
and pat ourselves on the back,
so proud of what we've done for world peace.



Let's say that we cut the military budget to
just enough to keep the National Guard
on hand to help out with floods and fires.



Let's say that we close down
our military bases all over the world
and bring the troops home,
increase our foreign aid
and drop all the trade sanctions
against everybody.



I suppose that in your fantasy world
this would create a utopian world
where everybody would live in peace.
After all, the great monster,
the United States of America,
the cause of all the world's trouble
would have disbanded it's horrible military
and certainly all the other countries
of the world would follow suit.



After all, they only arm themselves
to defend their countries from the mean old U.S.A.



Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical,
idiotic, spoiled mugwumps.
Get your head out of the sand
and smell the Trade Towers burning.



Do you think that a trip to Iraq by Sean Penn
did anything but encourage a wanton murderer
to think that the people of the U.S.A.
didn't have the nerve or the guts to fight him?



Barbra Streisand's fanatical and hateful rankings
about George Bush makes about as much sense
as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a railing.



You people need to get out of Hollywood
once in a while and get out into the real world.
You'd be surprised at the hostility you would find out here.



Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked,
long distance truck driver that you don't think
Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong.



Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military
that you think the United States
has no right to defend itself.



Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally
and see what the folks down there think about you.



You people are some of the most disgusting examples
of a waste of protoplasm I've ever
had the displeasure to hear about.



Sean Penn, you're a traitor to the United States of America.
You gave aid and comfort to the enemy.
How many American lives will your little,
"fact finding trip" to Iraq cost?
You encouraged Saddam to think
that we didn't have the stomach for war.



You people protect one of the most evil men
on the face of this earth and won't lift a finger
to save the life of an unborn baby.
Freedom of choice you say?



Well I'm going to exercise
some freedom of choice of my own.



If I see any of your names on a marquee,
I'm going to boycott the movie.
I will completely stop going to movies if I have to.
In most cases it certainly wouldn't be much of a loss.



You scoff at our military whose boots
you're not even worthy to shine.



They go to battle and risk their lives
so ingrates like you can live in luxury.



The day of reckoning is coming
when you will be faced with the undeniable truth
that the war against Saddam Hussein
is the war on terrorism.



America is in imminent danger.



You're either for her or against her.
There is no middle ground.



I think we all know where you stand.



What do you think?



God Bless America!





Charlie Daniels
Copyright (c) 2003 Charlie Daniels



"Well said Charlie, thank you."
Talltexian



And...yes, I sent the President his copy. TT

















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The loud little handful - as usual - will shout for the war. The pulpit will - warily and cautiously - object... at first. The great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it."
Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded, but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the antiwar audiences will thin out and lose popularity.
Before long, you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men...
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger" (1910)

I like Mark Twain but that's the stupidist quote of his I've heard. The loud est mouth public I hear just say it's bad. I don't hear the supporters for war yelling and having large protests. When was the last pro-war rally? That doesn't make a damn bit of sense. The anti-war idiots don't even know what's goin' on. They don't even have the intelligence to know why they just want to be a part of something and jump on the bandwagon. Saddam has gassed his own people. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9609/01/kurds/index.html This is pre gulf war but proves this man has no bones about using WMD. He can, he will, he has. Do you really believe after 12 years of run arounds that he will willingly give up such power? Honestly, can one person here tell be they believe that man will? It isn't a matter if will he gas, poison or nuke people, he has already proven he will. He has. His own people are starving because of his lack of cooperation with the outside world, yet he spends lavish amounts of money on his palaces and weapon programs. Will people die? yes. That is what war is. People dying and things being broken. But is ask you, how many more people stand to do from inaction? The US rebuilds the countries it invades to better than they were before. Look at West Germany (now one but wasn't 15 years ago). Ages ahead of east germany, trust me I have been there, don't know how many else where, I've been down the streets of Berlin, big diffrence between east and west. Look at Japan. We nuked them, nuked them. Do you know how long it should have taken a country to recover from that? Yet they are a technogical power to be reconed with. Can any honestly say if we went in, all the way this time, that they feel we would leave the country any worse of than the shape it is in now? Yes people will die, that is war, that's what it's about. But 10 years from now I see many more still alive if we go in soon, instead of waiting around and hoping all this works out and everyone can play nice afterwards. And to repeat the only people I hear yelling are crying against war. And for the majority of those I see few that really know what they are talking about. I know I don't know everything about it, I don't claim to. But the idiocy of people shouting out just to be part of a cause without knowing why at all is beyond reproach.

what Saddam has done to his country http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/1949205.stm

off of the bbc in ref to the oil for food program

In spite of the programme, serious deprivation and malnourishment are a reality in Iraq. A Unicef report in 1997 estimated that nearly one million Iraqi children were chronically malnourished.

here's a good one http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/...ces/index.html and a few little pieces

U.N. documents list eight main Saddam Hussein palace compounds containing more than 1,000 buildings -- luxury mansions, smaller guest villas, office complexes, warehouses and garages -- and covering some 32 square kilometres (12 square miles) in total.

to tell ya'll the truth I don't want war, war is a horrible thing. I've been there, not in the thick of it as some have but I've seen war none the less. Nobody want's war. But when you find yourself in danger you have to defend yourself. I know, I know, I'm about to get flamed by some idiot saying "how does Iraq threaten us?". I wish to ask how much do you know of that culture. Does this sound familiar

Is there anyone who hasn’t heard that old adage of the Middle East, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/633237.asp Will Iraq launch a scud and hit us in America? No. Will they aid anyone trying to harm us? I'm not sure, I'm not over there, I don't know, but culturly it not be uncommon for them to try. Think people, for yourself. Don't just listen to the news, don't just go along with the loudest voice. Find the news and the information. I tried to provide links to diffrent places so you can read this on your own. You don't agree with me, look for other sources. Many places abound on the internet. Fact is I'm pro-war for the fact Iraq needs an over-haul, we aren't safe and neither are the people of Iraq. May God bless those in battle, and shelter those who are innocent. And may Satan be ready to warmly greet those who evil.

Ya know something.... It really don't matter who thinks what is right or wrong. President Bush is doing what he thinks is best to protect not only the United States, but everyone on the planet that wants to live in freedom and without fear.

Right or wrong, we all should direct our actions, thoughts, and prayors to the men and women that are tasked to carry out the duties assigned to them. They don't ask why, they just follow thier orders and execute them to the best of their abilities. They do it because they value freedom and peace. Nothing more, nothing less.

Freedom is not free. It comes at a high cost and instead of bitching of why, care about those protecting it.

Nuff said.