Sure, you have to blame someone (management, Washington D.C., the Bushes) besides the first responders - otherwise your entire facade goes up in smoke. You sound like a postal employee - its always someone else's fault.
Is there a reason you can't stick to a discussion of the posted article?
OBTW, thanks for the Bump.
Go back to bed. You Are Outnumbered.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382532/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382510/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382557/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1382532/posts
Way Outnumbered.
Getting close to that line again, ClintonBeGone. Are you trying to get the thread deleted or sent to the smoky backroom?
--Boot Hill
In this instance, he's correct. Those above the fray fail to recognize how our porous souther border causes us to appear weak internationally and how this threatens our endeavors elsewhere such as Iraq and Afganistan.
Better that the illegals perceive us as "tough hombres" than a soft-underbelly to be exploited at will by peasants, gangsters, and who-knows-what at their descretion.
DP