A must read!
yep, I read the piece earlier this week.
Border Patrol official says they weren't overrun, but the NG did abandon their post as 4 armed men from Mexico approached.
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BP official needs to extract his head from where the sun doesn't shine.
this article is even more amazing than the other one. the guards were armed, apparently, but they are not supposed to really stop armed gangsters coming into America. so they have to retreat.
No, they weren't overrun, they had to RETREAT because guys with M-16s were approaching them. We are being invaded. We can give guys in Iraq guns, but no guns for those who are defending American territory. Martinez is a master of confusion. Here's what your article says:
'The armed confrontation occurred around 11 p.m. Wednesday near Sasabe , about a quarter-mile north of the border. A team of four or five Guard troops, armed with M-16s , were watching for border crossers at an observation post when they spotted four men carrying what appeared to be rifles, Martinez said.
As the men came closer, the Guard troops left their post and called for the Border Patrol.
"In order to not be detected, they moved to a safer location," Martinez said. "That's exactly what we want them to do.
"They're armed for their protection. Once they are afraid for their lives, they can defend themselves.
"That was not the case." '
That's just great! We send them to Iraq and allow them to defend themselves against insurgents. But they can't do the same here in the U.S.?
Guardsmen are strictly in a backup role along the border. That means performing administrative functions, building roads and fences - even conducting surveillance in some cases, such as with the team near Tucson.
Why do we need National Guardsmen to do such menial tasks? The only answer that occurs to me is: because they can't refuse.