Pardon me if I'm wrong, but doesn't calling up the guard require something to have happened? Like a flood, or a hurricane, or a war? What exactly happened along the border which requires sending guard troops down their to reinforce it? The only two events that I can see are the start of Rove's 2006 "smear the alien" campaign, and Bush's poll numbers hitting 29%. There is nothing new happening at the border that hasn't been happening for 50 years.
And what are the guard going to do down there? What is the mission? How and when will they be succesful? My guess is that none of those questions have any more answers than the same questions about Iraq. And what is going to happen is that a bunch of weekend warriors are going to go down there, armed to the teeth, not understanding the situation, and bad things will happen. Someone is going to get killed on either side and the whole thing is just going to blow up. What a nightmare.
And what is all this for anyway? To get back a few points of the Klan portion of his base by reinforcing the Klan, oops Minutemen, already at the border? Oh, I shouldn't say oops since that story about groups leaving the Minutemen becuase it was a thin veil over the KKK. Which was pretty obvious when you see them flying the rebel flag instead of the U.S. flag.
How much longer do we need to suffer with this dipshit in office? Two and a half years of this crap. I'm not sure I can take much more of this scrambly crap. He governs, if you can call it that, like a mouse on a hot plate. Three months ago we were told he was focused like a laser on Iraq. Then they shifted to Iran, apparently we were going to nuke there, and according to some pundits we were already at war with them. Then this month it's all about illegal immigration.
Perhaps that's the good news, right. Some national guard will get called up and sent down there. Then after a week or two Bush will forget about them and they will just give up and drive home.
Unfortunately I think the bad news is that Bush has a history of stepping in it and not knowing how to clean up the mess. We are stuck in Iraq. We are in trouble in Afghanistan. We have backed ourselves into a corner in Iran. And Rove's 'smear the aliens' campaign has drawn ten times as mainy pro-immigrant rallies as anti-immigrant rallies. So this little political stunt of theirs could end up creating a lot more trouble than Rove expects.
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