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To: DBtoo
You're kidding, US troops were employed during the 1991 LA riots? What did they do, stand around the out-skirts and watch as murder and mayhem was occuring?

The National Guard troops (about 2,000 of them, IIRC) brought the riots to an end, that's all.




78 posted on 12/22/2002 6:41:28 PM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
Don't forget the Marines!
80 posted on 12/22/2002 6:44:08 PM PST by Poohbah
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