[Yankee]

Ashcroft could have had National Guard troops from two states, Maryland and Virginia, around schools. In New York, we had National Guard troopers on the streets at both the Williamsburg and Queensboro bridges. Putting them at schools is more like it.

My God, this bucket of ---- is clueless.

Want to fault someone for not calling out the Guard?

Fault Demonrat Glendenning.

Only the Governor of a state can call out the Guard.

The Federal A.G. has nothing to do with it.

Pataki ordered the Guard deployed around New York in the aftermath of 9/11.

[muawiyah]

Democrat Governor Warner in Virginia also did not call out the Guard. There was one shooting in DC, and that was right at the MD/DC line - probably an error on the killer's part.

Except for all the other hazards, DC was a safer place to be than either Northern Virginia or Montgomery County Maryland.

This writer's geographical knowledge is so poor you'd think he'd just graduated from a public highschool.