[Rhodes22-list] Anyone else see this? Is this a true story or urban legend??

[Rik Sandberg]

Alex,

Looked it up in snopes. They say true. Apparently you can still see it on 
his website. Charlie's soap box page.

Rik

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:45:24 -0500, Alex Bell <alexbell@coastalnet.com> 
wrote:

> When Charlie Daniels gets on his soapbox, a lot of patriotism can
> come out of him:
>
>
> An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch
>
>
> 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 its 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 rantings 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!
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