National Guard Border Numbers Are A Carnival Shell Game, It’s That Bad

PoliPundit ^ | 8/1/06 | Oak Leaf

[Kimberly GG]

"Today is the “deadline” for “troops to the border” and I am extremely sad to write that sending the National Guard to the “Southern Border” is turning out to be an embarrassing failure. As a member of the Reserve Components, I am ashamed at what I am seeing."

[gubamyster]

ping

[Hydroshock]

I always thought this was nothing more then a smoke screen to help get teh amnesty passed. It was never meant to stop anything.

[Hugin]

Did anybody really believe this was anything other than an election year stunt?

[middie]

Except for his unwaivering support for Israel, GW's administration has been a total failure. Historians will record it as such.

[TomGuy]

Some good news (maybe), and news about the NG shellgame:

Senate votes to fund the fence (Senate embarrassed, House Republicans remain adamant,security first)

Posted by IrishMike
On News/Activism 08/03/2006 7:03:22 AM CDT · 60 replies · 1,132+ views

Washington Times ^ | August 3, 2006 | Stephen Dinan & Brian DeBose
The Senate did an abrupt about-face yesterday, voting overwhelmingly to begin paying for 370 miles of fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, just three weeks after voting against the same spending. The amendment's sponsor said senators were so embarrassed by that July 13 vote that most felt they had to reverse course and vote for it this time -- especially after so many were on record in May voting to build the fence in the first place. The amendment, which provides nearly $2 billion for the project, passed 94-3, with 66 senators switching from "no"...

The Washington Times article says only 2,675 are actually on the border.

This article (yesterday) says 6,199 are there.

National Guard Tops Troops Required for Border Mission
	Posted by SandRat On News/Activism 08/02/2006 7:25:44 PM CDT · 8 replies · 101+ views American Forces Press Service ^ | Sgt. Sara Wood, USA WASHINGTON, August 2, 2006 – The National Guard has exceeded its troop requirement along the southwestern U.S. border by almost 200 servicemembers and is assisting U.S. Border Patrol activities there, a senior Defense Department official said here today. “We were obligated, by Aug. 1, to have 6,000 National Guardsmen deployed to the four-state southwest border region. And, in fact, as of close of business yesterday, we had 6,199 soldiers,” Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, said in an interview. “We kept our commitment to the secretary of defense, Lieutenant General (H Steven) Blum (chief of the National...
6,000-plus Guard troops in border states - though only about half are on duty along the border
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 07/31/2006 7:39:47 PM CDT · 21 replies · 193+ views AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/31/06 | Elliot Spagat - ap SAN DIEGO - More than 6,000 National Guard troops have been assigned to southwestern border states by the government's Aug. 1 deadline — though only about half of them are on duty along the border, the Guard said Monday. Guard officials said 6,199 troops were somewhere in the four southwestern border states, with many still in training. Col. Mark Allen, a spokesman for the National Guard Bureau, said 2,000 to 3,000 were on the border, most searching for illegal activity. The Guard never intended to have 6,000 troops "with their toes on the border," said Col. Mark Allen, a spokesman...
Someone is lying!!!!!

[stylin19a]

somewhat mis-leading rant. The part of the President's speech referred to, ignores a couple of words...

...up to 6,000 Guard members will be deployed to our southern border."

[RoadTest]

My admiration for President Bush's campaign to Democratize Iraq and share our good fortune with them takes a precipitous nosedive into the ground when I look at his One-World-Kingdom-Of-Antichrist destruction of the United States by a Mexican invasion unhalted and not even slowed much.

[RoadTest]

...up to 6,000 Guard members will be deployed to our southern border."

What's that figure out to - - - two guards per mile? Can they see that far?

[DoughtyOne]

Let's see how that plays in this sentence.

We will launch a war on terrorism, up to winning. Sounds promising...

I think Bush can do better than that.

[mtbopfuyn]

Yep, I said that 2 seconds after Bush announced it. 6000 my Aunt Fanny.

[TheLion]

I knew it was going to be political maneuvring, when they would be part of actually stopping the invaders. That would be the only thing that would work.