What the H are our Guards folks doing there unarmed??? What's the rationale?
So deploying them to the border was purely a publicity stunt?
Public relations ploy. Bush's damage control for surrendering the sovereignty of America to the third world.
I hate it that I voted for him. Twice.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/17/cnna.blum/index.html
Sure it was...he never has had any intention of securing the border. He's following the agenda of the OBL to a T.
Imagine sending out soldiers into Iraq to provide security for the green zone in Baghdad....with no weapon.
Speaking of Iraq...I'm convinced that's why nothing has been done to secure their borders to keep the insurgents from getting and attacking our soldiers. How would he justify securing their borders, while ours remain wide open. Every decision Bush makes has a domino affect on everything else. I'm sure I'd want to be over there putting my azz on the line, knowing my family back home are sitting ducks because he refuses to secure the border.