From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Er, You are aware that the National Guard is a State Institution ( except
when called to federal Duty) aren't you ?

"Mark"  wrote in message
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>I know it's not valid, as the National Guard hasn't been protecting our
>borders since, forever, through no fault of their own.
>
> But my point was that the argument against the decimation of their
> readiness here on our land is just so much BS, as they've never been
> employed to that end anyway.
>
> If we're willing to allow illegal aliens to walk on over at their leisure,
> and obviously we have been, and continue to be willing to let them do so,
> why do we need a National Guard?  To do internal, far from our borders,
> emergency recovery that governors can't handle on their own?
>
> Where does that end? with a governor in North Dakota screaming for
> National Guard help when a sink-hole sucks down a cabin, or worse a bear,
> somewhere in the wilderness?  (socialists in reality) and the rest of us>
>
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:463fe2d5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> The problem of the war with the National Guard is Bush tried to do it on
>> the cheap and depleted the resources of the State's National Guard units
>> in another attempt to hide the true cost of this war. War ain't cheap -
>> nor should it be.
>>
>> Bringing up illegal aliens in an attempt to justify that depletion of
>> resources isn't valid
>>
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:463fe138{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>> "Randy"  wrote in message: It
gets worse-to restock the
>>> Guard will take 5 years, even if the money is ready to be spent
>>> yesterday.
>>>
>>> That's probably true. How many years will it take to stop illegal aliens
>>> from walking/swimming across our border? How many American lives? Jobs?
>>> Hospital Beds? Children? Will be lost?
>>>
>>> I guess, if only we weren't engaging in the wrong war, in the wrong
>>> place, at the wrong time, that our National Guard could actually protect
>>> our borders... >> War" did it?>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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