From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Well we know Bush will be there soon for the Photo Op



"Mark"  wrote in message
news:463fec87{at}w3.nls.net...
> Hmm, because she waited until there was an emergency, then immediately
> "blamed Bush," instead of taking preemptive action on behalf of her
> state's readiness years (as in over 4) ago?
>
> Nah, that'll never fly, it's always all "Bush's fault."
Although at least
> Gov. Blanco realized she was too totally incompetent to pull off that
> canard  if...>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:463fe929{at}w3.nls.net...
>> The National Guard is a dual state-Federal force. Notice the 'state'
>> word? The Governor of Kansas has every right to question what happened to
>> those resources. Why does her doing what's whithin her right upset you
>> so?
>>
>> http://www.ngb.army.mil/About/default.aspx
>>
>> Today's National Guard still remains a dual state-Federal force.
>>
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>> news:463fe74e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>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? >> "progressives" (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... >>>> to "Bush's War" did it?>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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