Chertoff on using National Guard on the Border

[Jane Austin]

He was on O'Reilly six months ago, and said this:

"Why don't you put the National Guard on the border to back up the border
patrol and stop the bleeding, and then start to increase the Border Patrol,
the high-tech and all of that?" O’Reilly asked. . . .

"Well, the National Guard is really, first of all, not trained for that
mission," Chertoff told O'Reilly. "I mean, the fact of the matter is the
border is a special place. There are special challenges that are faced
there."

Chertoff added that that it would take a huge amount of National Guard
troops, that they would need new training. But couldn’t the National Guard
pull it off, O'Reilly asked?

"I think it would be a horribly over-expensive and very difficult way to
manage this problem," Chertoff said. "Unless you would be prepared to leave
those people in the National Guard day and night for month after month after
month, you would eventually have to come to grips with the challenge in a
more comprehensive way."

[Drum]

1. kick&recommend!

:kick:

[shain from kane]

2. Flip-flop. n/t

[Mandate My Ass]

3. Snow said something about the NG not doing security

but doing non law-enforcement tasks like (construction?) which will free up border agents for more intensive patrols. It's a dumb-assed idea to appease the knuckle draggers.

[Skink]

4. There's a good movie called Flashpoint that deals with Border patrol.

Also it delves into the JFK assasination.

[shain from kane]

6. Remember in Flashpoint where they had those electronic monitors

that they had to plant in their sector, and there was a screen that they watched to see whether there was any activity. I guess those didn't work out?

[The White Tree]

5. Yeah but we all know he's incompetant

and no one listens to what he says. After all he is just the Head of the Department of Homland Security. It's not like he works at the Pentagon or anything.

:sarcasm:

[Jane Austin]

7. I know this is small potatoes in the grand destruction of our country, but

when Clinton was President, if one person expressed any doubt about one of his policies, the news blared with "Disarray in the Clinton Administration!".

This criminal administration has been going off in all directions since the day they took office, and you just never hear that, even now.

You hear that they are demoralized or "grim", but not the chaos with which they characterized the Clinton regime for years.

Grrrr . . . .

[The White Tree]

8. Actually, I agree with you

It's very important because it shows just how clueless the administration is. After all aren't they saying that they have been contemplating this for quite a while. Apparantly they didn't ask Chertoff his opinion since he said it wouldn't work just 6 months ago.

That's why I recommended the post for greatest page. I'm suprised it didn't get more traction.

[Jane Austin]

9. Thanks for your recommendation.

I don't know why some people's post don't get traction.

Lots of things kind of get buried under multiple postings of the same stories. :(