Rumsfeld Defends Guard's Use on Border ("useful real-life training")

How to learn to pick off brown people so Halliburton can get richer.
"Useful real-life training" indeed!

Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., asked Rumsfeld and Pace whether the generals' criticism had a negative affect on the troops.

Moderate, my ass. :eyes:

It is unbelievable how stupid and out of touch with reality these criminals are. They will say anything , no matter how ridiculous, if it will "aid the cause".

I don't know if I am going to make it through the next three years.

except doing support work at the border?

Well, at least the mask is off now. He old fool doesn't fool anyone.

They all know what he is; an incompetent ass.

According to Michael Chertoff of DHS, in December, 2005.

DHS Does About-Face In Backing Use of National Guard to Seal Border
By Patrick Yoest, CQ Staff

Michael Chertoff, in those relatively calmer days before mass pro-immigration rallies, heated immigration reform politics in the Senate and cellar-dwelling opinion polls for President Bush, dismissed the idea out of hand.

“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.”

then it must be the WORST IDEA ON THE FUCKING PLANET.

From San Diego in the Pacific to Brownsville in the Caribbean, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Southern America. Mexico DF, Guatemala City, Lima, Bogota, Quito, Panama City, Managua and Santiago, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Capitalist sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to American influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Washington. Caracas alone -- Venezuela with its immortal glories -- is free to decide its future at an election under International observation. The American-dominated Mexican government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon America itself, and mass immigrations of millions of Mexicans on a scale grievous and undreamed of are now taking place. The capitalists, which were very small in all these L. American states, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in Bolivia and Venezuela, there is no true democracy....

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/02/documents/churchill/

Seeing as how we will have all those troops down in the Southwest
US (which means a shitload of military equipment/vehicles will be headed down there, also). There is more to this whole deal than chimp suddenly wanting to "protect the border"...