1. Our country is being invaded from the south.
2. The invaders march in the street making demands.
3. Our ELECTED OFFICIALS sit back and do nothing.
4. We are spending BILLIONS overseas to fight the WOT while here at home anyone can waltz over our borders.
If at Monday's address to the nation President Bush does anything less than put the Guard on the border, his approval rating will drop another 5-10 percent and rightly so.
This is the primary mission of our military and anything else (to include Iraq) is secondary.
There is absolutely no valid reason why Congress can not authorize our U.S. military to guard our borders.
I have a suggestion:
Halt all TSA inspection of American civilians at our airports, until the U.S. borders have been slammed shut. If our borders are left wide open, then all airport security is useless.
Do not allow the government to have it both ways. Shut down all TSA inspections until our elected officials in Washington close the borders.
>>>If at Monday's address to the nation President Bush does anything less than put the Guard on the border, his approval rating will drop another 5-10 percent and rightly so.
I agree. His wording will be very important. Parse the language carefully. Watch for Clinton-type weazel words. Look for words that signal pieces of paper being shuffled, or commissions to look into things, or the military to "look into" sending the military to the border.
Instead, what we want to see is wording like "Next Monday x divisions will be moved to the southern border and will be under the command of y." or "Next Monday the Corps of Engineers will release design/construct contracts for building an Israeli fence along the southern border."
Look for action statements. Look for things that happen "now" and not in the future. Anything else will be too late or pandering to the conservatives. Please, may he choose wisely.