National Guard on the border ...Plan doesn't exist

Mikey Chertoff doesn't have the vaguest clue what the National Guard will be doing on the US/Mexico border.

From TPM Muckraker:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000665.php

QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, if I've understood everything I've heard, you don't yet know what missions the 6,000 National Guardsmen will do, you don't know who is going to pay for them, you don't know what the rules of engagement will be for them, you don't know what size units there will be or how long -- whether they'll be two-week or six-month deployments, and you don't really know exactly which equipment they're going to have. So my question is, how long have you been working on this?

SECRETARY CHERTOFF: I guess that's what they call a loaded question. And I guess you haven't understood what we've said, so I'm going to try to make it really clear. . .


Lets just say it now for the record:
Assuming Bushco will actually make anything happen on this initiative, this will be a huge clusterfuck. It will be enormously expensive and will solve nothing. After the 2006 elections the program will quietly go away as either new Democratic leaders push through legislation that makes sense, or newly mandated Republican majorities push through something even more draconian.

Please fellow DUers!!! We must get these idiots out of office.