Charlie Daniels' Kosovo War Post

[DougieZero]

Found this in his "soapboax" archive on his webpage from back in the day. Hilarious stuff...
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Vietnam

I have a very bad feeling about our incursion into the Kosovo situation. It reminds me so much of the Vietnam experience. The parallels are remarkable. It is a Civil War. It is being fought among a civilian population. We are starting out in a manner which could keep us involved for years to come. The politicians have neither the will nor the stomach to win. We have no clear cut definition of victory. And the list of analogies goes on and on. The Vietnam war was not lost by our military forces, it was lost by the politicians. That war should have been over with before the tide of opinion in this country turned so vehemently against it. What soured this country out on the Vietnam war was the duration. Here was a third world country who played by nobody’s rules and our politicians sent our troops into battle with ridiculous orders about when and who they could shoot. When it became obvious that we had no intention of winning the patience of this country ran out and so did support for the war. I can imagine the same thing happening in Kosovo. I pray that it will not. But if we stay there long enough you can bet your bottom dollar that something will happen to escalate our involvement. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m just as much against the atrocities that the Serbs are committing as anybody is. I think that Milosevic should be castrated with a broken beer bottle, but If we’re going to stop it, let’s stop it. Let’s go in with both barrels blazing, shoot anything in sight wearing a Serb uniform, get the job done and bring the troops home. In the first place Bill Clinton has quietly cut our military forces to the point that I’m not sure we could mount the kind of all out offensive we’d need to accomplish that goal. And God forbid that anything else requiring troops should happen in the world. The same president who refused to serve in the uniform of his country doesn’t seem to have any qualms about sending other folks’ sons and daughters into battle. I don’t know what the answer is but neither does Bill Clinton and he has gotten us into something that is not going to be easy to get out of. Enslaving the Serbs. The feelings go much deeper that we can realize and any pitiful effort we make is little more than a symbolic in gesture. But this administration is big on symbolism and short on substance. So where do we go from here Bill? Do we keep dropping bombs? Do we send in ground troops or do we just tuck our collective tails between our legs and admit to another dismal failure by the United Nations? How are your spin doctors going to handle this one? If American troops are killed, will James Carville go on television and blame it on Kenneth Star? We’re waiting Bill....

What do you think?

God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
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[rumguy]

1. I'm sure he was all for the Iraq war

Just like Hannity, just like Delay: nothing but phony losers.

[Sandpiper]

2. The wingnuts are Republicans first

and Americans second.

[Goldmund]

3. That is ironic on more levels than I can count.

[sadiesworld]

4. It was a well-planned, winnable war fought to stop ongoing

ethnic cleansing. Not a 15 year-too-late-slap-in-the-face-fought- under-false-pretenses boondoggle (you are looking for an Iraq analogy here, right?).

I have no idea how the Iraq situation will end, but I do know there are thousands of American families whose lives have been irrevocably altered...oh, and being lied to really messes with that democracy thing.

[Goldmund]

6. In addition to having that dimension of Irony --

-- comparison with Iraq -- there's another dimension: comparison between how the Kosovo campaign was going to turn out, according to CD, and how it actually did.

[bluestateguy]

5. He criticized the president during a war

He tells us now that that is unpatriotic and that it undermines our troops in the field.

How are your spin doctors going to handle this one? If American troops are killed, will James Carville go on television and blame it on Kenneth Star? We’re waiting Bill....

No need, no troops killed. General Clark and President Clinton got the job done. We liberated a Muslim country from Milosovic, who was later captured and tried. Nor were American troops in Kosovo attacked with RPGs and roadside bombs.

[meow mix]

7. this one is good, he's boudelange

"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?"

http://www.cwmusic.com/charliedanielsletter.htm

[DougieZero]

8. ironic

i think old charlie forgot to remove this post from his archive... that man has been so pro-war the last 4 years it's sick.

didn't he release a book recently called "this ain't no rag" spewing the usual stuff about traitors...etc.?

[Old and In the Way]

9. Another entertainer that wraps himself in the flag to make $.

He's the Jerry Falwell of the music world. His music and his politics suck.

[BlueStateGirl]

10. Wonder what he has to say about that now? We could ask him,

but he's probably too busy waving the flag and supporting Chimpy's war to answer.

[paranoid floyd]

11. Holy Shit

What a hillbilly. And to think the guy used to write a few good songs. He is a walking hypocritcal bag of shit. I sent him and email and told him as much. His home page has him ranting that 9/11 is Clinton's fault because he should have taken UBL out when he had the chance. Dickhead. Shut up Charlie and go nail your cousin. Again.