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echo: barktopus
to: Mark
from: Randy
date: 2007-05-08 23:44:50
subject: Re: Kansas National Guard lack of heavy equipment

From: Randy 

Mark wrote:
> "Randy"  wrote in message
news:464111d8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Mark wrote:
>>> Well, hell Randy, I don't really don't give a shit if a fence
won't work,
>>> the border still has to be secured.
>>>
>>> I guess what we need then, is the National Guard on the border with lots
>>> of rounds of live ammunition until the illegal trespassers figure out
>>> that we're serious about stopping them. >> in Iraq and bring them on home>
>>>
>> Exactly. Rotary cannons would work wonders.
>>
>> Now pay for it.
>
> It's a freebie isn't it?
>
> First we surrender to Al Qaeda in Iraq, then we redeploy our troops to our
> southern border (which is only a bit farther than Murtha's Okinawa plan
> anyway).
>
> Let's see, a couple thousand miles of border divided over 140,000 troops
> comes to about one soldier per 75 feet -- that'd be ample coverage, wouldn't
> it? Other than the real diehard invaders, they'd not even have to shoot
> anyone, just knowing there's an armed soldier within 37.5' of them should be
> sufficient deterrent.  something for their citizens besides kicking them in the ass in a northward
> orientation and phone number to send the US cash back?>
>
>

'taint no freebie-ya gotta pay for the hardware at least.

Besides, why surrender to al Qaeda-let 'em come, then you pull back in 6
hours and let loose with every neutron warhead in our arsenal-no sense
making any more damage to Iraqi infrastructure than we already have.

Mexico's problem is the fact that all of the NAFTA jobs that migrated from
the US down to Mexico in the 90s have migrated out of Mexico to China,
thankyoverymuch.

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