[Marine_Uncle]

"We've got National Guard members on their second, third and fourth tours in Iraq," said Chuck Hagel, a senior Republican senator. "We have stretched our military as thin as we have ever seen it in modern times." "White House aides said it would be only a temporary initiative while the border guards expanded their operations and numbers. Tony Snow, the new White House press secretary, said the effort would use only a "very small percentage of the [400,000 strong] Guard."

Frigen Hagel is almost as bad as Murtha. Where did his brain go?

[Tamayo]

I really don't care where the Guard have been. We need to deploy them to protect our borders. They signed up for it....they got it.