From: "Mark" 

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


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
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> 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
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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? > "progressives" (socialists in reality) and the rest of us>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
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>>> 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
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>>>>
>>>> "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... >>> "Bush's War" did it?>
>>>>
>>>>
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