[bnelson44]

good

[Diddle E. Squat]

President Bush's planned deployment of National Guard troops to the Mexican border would last at least two years with no clear end date

LOL, the media instinctively shouts "QUAGMIRE" regardless of circumstances when their is a Republican in the WH.

[teletech]

I hope their mission is search and detain destroy.

[My Favorite Headache]

Can't anyone at the Pentagon NOT leak anything to the f!cking press?

[NormsRevenge]

2 years sounds reasonable..

The 2008 election can then serve as a referendum on how much progress has been made in stemming the flow... for starters.

[xjcsa]

Get ready for questions about an "exit strategy".

[Jim Robinson]

What? No exit plan? How do we win the peace????

[1ofmanyfree]

"...while New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, has been more critical of the plan.

Says the Guard troops are too tired, a lame excuse from a lame excuse. Richardson = the original "Anchor Baby" governor.

Yes, IIRC his Mama is Mexican and from one of the richest banking families in Mexico City. She came here(US)to give birth to this POS making him a US citizen. He's been groomed his entire life to be our first Mexican-American president.

[new yorker 77]

FYI

[FairOpinion]

"according to a Pentagon memo obtained Friday by The Associated Press. "


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Another leak!!!

There should be some serious house cleaning everywhere in the government.

[Fishtalk]

I'm pretty sure the administration leaked this tidbit.

Heh.

Republicans. They only know a public relations opportunity when it smacks them in the face. Every Republican in the House and Senate should be out and about cackling about Harry Reid's assertion that making English our language is discrimination.

The admin knew it had to get a time length for those border guards out there. Cause one of the first cynical things us idiots out here in la-la land said was "How long is this going to last?"

Heh.

I'm in a pensive mood this evening. Challenge me.

[Rembrandt]

The AP and CNN are reaching the point of desperation. CNN reported yesterday that Bush wants the price of first class postage to increase by ten cents to 49 cents in order to slough off the cost of retirement benefits for military wounded in Iraq.

This is going to prove untrue. Many of the stories on AP are obviously false as one reviews them.

CNN and the AP are desperate to see Bush impeached to do a big payback for Klintoon's impeachment.

[DTogo]

Well, the Dems wanted Bush to "re-deploy" our troops.

Here ya go!

[org.whodat]

He proposed deploying 6,000 troops at a time to the border in two-week rotations.

I think he said up to 6000. That means there may only be 6, 60 or 600. Little late if you ask me.

[sergeantdave]

Sh#t stinks but not half as much as the AP.

I believe nothing from the AP unless it's confirmed from a source I trust.

[engrpat]

And they will do what? Go shopping south of the border, study spanish, enjoy the warm weather? As they won't have any actual role in protecting the border, won't be armed and won't be able to detain/arrest any illegals, can't see that they will be much good other than try to give Pres. Bush some cover and say he is doing something, no matter how "Clintonness" it may be.

[Let's Roll]

So?

[KoRn]

That's a looong photo-op. For their own sanity, I hope they can at least get internet access out there, or be bale to take portable games into the field.

[Fishtalk]

Well anyway...there really is a logic to my hunch that the administration leaked this.

First thing, the AP gets its hands on an actual memorandum. Not a mid of night phone call. An actual memo. Second, the memo is from the pentagon. Now I know there's leakers everywhere but this is a whole lot for it not to be intentional.

Also, this memo was distributed to a whole bunch of states so I guess it's probably not a leak at all when you think about it. Probably Joe Blow in Outpost 12 faxed a copy to the AP.

The thing to keep in mind here, this is a rather obvious attempt to put this two year thing into our collective heads. Because many of us doubt this administration's (specifically the Senate's) sincerity on this matter.

But what does a memo mean? So they send out a memo stating the rotation term could be two years. It's not like they're putting us in a time machine and thrusting us forward two years to see if there are still guards at the border.

It's like the whole middle class in this country, those who carry this country on their backs, has crossed its arms on this matter and doesn't believe a word those in the political class are telling us.

And why the hell should we? WE...meaning us silly folk who are tired of paying for welfare, health care costs, on and on, for these illegals. WE...who were killed on the attacks of 9-11...not a soldier died, not one politician. WE who want not just anybody la-di-da to just traipse across our borders. WE...who have the common sense and they call it that for a readon.

I am perfectly and very serious about this putting aside silly arguments.

I do not believe a sniff of the smoke they are blowing in our face.

[JSteff]

What an incredibly stupid move this all is. We are going to send the Guard down to a hostile border, against narcoterrorists (along with the illegals) and they will not be armed.

We are going to put trained soldiers on police duty with no powers of arrest or defense. Great way to break a fighting force. Clinton did this too and it was stupid then.

When will our politicians ever learn?. Why is a Republican President doing this? Why are we catering to dems and the MSM?