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Now...What's up with this???

Guard soldiers back off from armed men out of Mexico



"A Border Patrol official says National Guard troops acted appropriately this week when they abandoned their post near the border southwest of Tucson as four gunmen approached from Mexico."

The National Guard was deployed on the border states (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California) by Pres. Bush last April. For what purpose?

"Guardsmen are strictly in a backup role along the border. That means performing administrative functions, building roads and fences, even conducting surveillance in some cases, such as with the team near Tucson.

But they're never to confront or attempt to apprehend border crossers."

WTF?? You mean, they are there just to take notes? Hold a clipboard, like a backup quarterback? To merely watch, and if they see some armed men, to run for cover and call someone else??

This is absolutely crazy.

There's one Arizona State Senator who agrees:

"State Sen. Chuck Gray, a Republican and retired Mesa police officer, was surprised that Guard members would run in the face of an armed threat, unless they were seeking protective cover.

"I can tell you, as a police officer of 10 years, there was never a policy to flee," he said. "If they're running for cover, that's different than running away."

Indeed. It would seem the teeth are pulled from our National Guardsmen.

What's this country's Armed Services coming to, if they are challenged in our own country and instructed to back off from armed drug runners? To hide before they are even seen?

Political Correctness will be the death of all of us...

Arizona National Guardsmen monitor the border

H/T Flap's Blog; and Hosedragger