National Guard at Border: A Desperate Bush Ploy with Dangerous Implications

Mr. Bush is a desperate man. His approval rating is at 25 year low. And he is desperately seeking a way to divert attention from his failed presidency. What does he come up with? A plan to send national guard troops to the border. But we can see through this sham plan. Its an attempt to appease Republicans whom are skittish about the elections in the fall and the public's outrage over the immigration fiasco. We know that this is moving around the chairs a proverbial Titanic. Not to mention that none of this goes toward solving the illegal alien problem.

But this ploy has serious implications. At a time when there aren't enough national guards in states because they are in Iraq, it is playing a dangerous game. The Katrina disaster was due to a large extent to the lack of national guard troops doing their traditional duties during major hurricanes. It was also the result of global warming which Mr. Bush doens't believe in. He is gambling on a major storm, that is expected to hit somewhere in the U.S., this hurricane season not happening. Already New England has been hit by historic flooding. The Northeast and elsewhere are expected to get severe storms. Therefore it is logical to conclude that we will have disastrous conditions that the government (in particular FEMA) are unfit to deal with. And with a shortage of national guard troops in non-border areas massive dislocation, like Katrina, will have a devastating impact. Compounding the problem will be a federal budget that is already running massive deficits leaving little to help hurricane victims.

If you don't already realize that George Bush is a man without a clue, then you will when a disaster hits at a place near you. It is becoming more and more evident that 9-11, the Iraq War, and Katrina, were a result of the the kind of incompetence that has become a trademark of this administration. This means that we will have other disasters between now and the time that Bush leaves office. That is, of course, if we don't run Bush and his crowd out of town before then.