[HennepinPrisoner]

A facetious argument. We can do better and so can they, but, unlike most of our illegal immigrants, those who are crossing over their borders are crossing to kill.

Who cares if it is most of our illegals that are not crossing to kill?

All it takes is a dozen out of the 400,000 that cross annually to cause the massive killings that we saw on Sep. 11th.

Frankly, I agree with the Syrian official that it is hypocritcal of the Bush administration to criticize Syria for "not stopping terrorist border crossings" when the Bush administration itself is turning a blind eye to our own porous borders and letting future terrorists cross over here on a daily basis. Is Syria serious about making an effort to stymie the border crossings? Of course not. But the Bush administration's complacence with our own borders has given this Syrian offical the rope to hang us with.

STOP TERRORISTS FROM ENTERING THE COUNTRY....BRING HOME THE TROOPS STATIONED IN GERMANY AND SEND THEM TO THE BORDERS NOW

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Is Syria serious about making an effort to stymie the border crossings? Of course not. But the Bush administration's complacence with our own borders has given this Syrian offical the rope to hang us with.

I don't disagree with wanting our borders closed, although using U.S. troops to do so seems to be against the rules. There's far more than a dozen bad guys a year crossing Syria's borders who are killing our people, so I would have to insist that the Syrian get cracking with his responsibilities since it's having an immediate impact on our troops.