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To: Abathar
"border patrols with some 6,000 Guard troops would use only about 2 percent of the total Guard force."

I like 18K and only about 6% myself...

2 posted on 05/17/2006 9:38:55 AM PDT by Abathar (Helen Thomas's first job was the test dummy at the Ugly Stick Manufacturing Co.)
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To: Abathar

Quite a practical amount...


3 posted on 05/17/2006 10:00:40 AM PDT by Edgerunner (Proud to be an infidel)
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To: Abathar

30,000 sounds better


4 posted on 05/17/2006 10:01:20 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Immigration: Acting like dupes does not earn us their respect, but their CONTEMPT.))
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To: Abathar

The sad part of that edict will be that 3.000 of the Guards will only stay 1 year (another sneaky slop to the pigs in the U.S. electorate, slipped in the over 600 pages.


6 posted on 05/17/2006 10:10:53 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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