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Well, before I even go tot he to the other blogs you've linked I have to bring up one point: If the National Guard is spread too thin to react with their full, intrinsic capabilities because of even one deployment abroad, doesn’t that mean they are spread too thin? I understand your point behind your comment, however, is not the intention of the National Guard to guard our nation? Don’t we employ the Army to take care of our warfare related interests abroad? My point is that National Guardsmen and their respective equipment should not be any where else except domestic locations. So I would have to disagree with your label of “tripe”.
In the bigger scheme, those men and women (Guardsmen) are employed to protect domestic interests. The Army is employed to protect our nation’s interests abroad. So our citizens are, in fact, getting screwed here and as a direct result of the Iraq deployment. National Guard troops should not be deployed abroad. That action squanders domestic resources. If they’re short on soldiers in the Army, they need to boost recruiting incentives, not pull domestic troops for assignment abroad.
Maybe I’m incorrect in my understanding of the assignment of the National Guard but the principle is correct.
Well, on the surface that would seem true, but it is my understaning (confirmed by a National Guard soldier who called in on C-SPAN this morning) that the Infantry (which is who is being sent to Iraq) is not who is deployed in domestic crises like a natural catastrophe. The caller said that it was rather the support and planning soldiers who are trained to deal in resource deployment during a crisis situation.
The point I was making was that there are journalists and bloggers out there who are exploiting a misconception about troop deployment for dubious reasons. The bottom line is that the hurricane is not Bush's fault and that we have plenty of in-house resources to deal with this.
In my opinion, the city is pretty much lost. Imagine all those dead bodies and crap floating around in that murky water which will be sitting for weeks and weeks. It's going to be a cess pool that will be uninhabitable by man.
Frankly, I don't know how people live that far south anyway--it's too frigging hot and muggy. I'll take a little snow in exchange for living comfortably the other 90% of the year, thank you much.
Interesting. Perhaps I stand corrected. I guess infantry are only called in cases of Marshall Law, under that logic.
I don’t know. I think Bush just may be behind this whole hurricane thing. It obviously seems like a bid for the third term to me. Oh, wait, he can’t get ele…..
Anyway, I see your point and I’m sure you’re right. Everyone has their own opinion… Just like the people who like that hot muggy weather. I personally can’t see it, but it takes all types to make the world go around, ya know? I’m with you, man, I need the change in seasons.
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Guest are encouraged to leave comments here; you do not have to register an account. All that I ask is that you be respectful of the other readers of this site and its host. Stick to the ideas being expressed and you should be okay. Get personal and you might not like the results. Thanks for reading.In the bigger scheme, those men and women (Guardsmen) are employed to protect domestic interests. The Army is employed to protect our nation’s interests abroad. So our citizens are, in fact, getting screwed here and as a direct result of the Iraq deployment. National Guard troops should not be deployed abroad. That action squanders domestic resources. If they’re short on soldiers in the Army, they need to boost recruiting incentives, not pull domestic troops for assignment abroad.
Maybe I’m incorrect in my understanding of the assignment of the National Guard but the principle is correct.
The point I was making was that there are journalists and bloggers out there who are exploiting a misconception about troop deployment for dubious reasons. The bottom line is that the hurricane is not Bush's fault and that we have plenty of in-house resources to deal with this.
In my opinion, the city is pretty much lost. Imagine all those dead bodies and crap floating around in that murky water which will be sitting for weeks and weeks. It's going to be a cess pool that will be uninhabitable by man.
Frankly, I don't know how people live that far south anyway--it's too frigging hot and muggy. I'll take a little snow in exchange for living comfortably the other 90% of the year, thank you much.
I don’t know. I think Bush just may be behind this whole hurricane thing. It obviously seems like a bid for the third term to me. Oh, wait, he can’t get ele…..
Anyway, I see your point and I’m sure you’re right. Everyone has their own opinion… Just like the people who like that hot muggy weather. I personally can’t see it, but it takes all types to make the world go around, ya know? I’m with you, man, I need the change in seasons.