Bush Administration To ‘Skim Off Border Patrol Agents’ For Duty In Iraq
Bush Administration To ‘Skim Off Border Patrol Agents’ For Duty In Iraq
During a visit to the U.S-Mexico border last month, President Bush stated that “securing the border is a critical part of a strategy for comprehensive immigration reform.” Yesterday, Bush claimed that his administration had already “stepped up efforts to improve border security,” touting his attempts to “double the size of the Border Patrol.”
Today, however, such commitments ring hollow as Govs. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ) and Bill Richardson (D-NM) have found that the defense contractor DynCorp has been authorized by the Bush Administration to hire as many as 120 “current and former U.S. Border Patrol agents.”
DynCorp “is offering $134,100 for a one-year stay, plus a $25,000 signing bonus,” a reported 70% pay raise. Further, “[t]he first $90,000 in income is tax free, and housing and food are free.”
Richardson and Napolitano both expressed outrage about the plan, saying in a letter to Bush that the plan “makes no sense“:
[A]t a time when violence is once again flaring up on our own border, it makes no sense for the United States State Department to empower a company to hire away as many as 120 veteran Border Patrol agents to serve as mentors to train Iraqis… We should be focused on supporting our nation’s security efforts along the Mexican and Canadian border instead of hampering [the Border Patrol] by sending our best agents to a war zone in Iraq.
The Bush administration’s attempts to “skim off Border Patrol agents” for duty in Iraq is made worse in light of the recent decision to withdraw half of the 6,000 National Guard troops temporarily stationed at the border.
The Bush administration had promised to replace the Guardsmen with an “equal number of new Border Patrol agents,” but “fewer than 350 new agents have been hired.”
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May 25th, 2007 at 2:56 pmThat’s your favorite King, trollies! Are you feeling safe now?
May 25th, 2007 at 2:57 pmSee, Bush wants millions of Mexicans in the U. S. because Big Bidness needs slave labor. Bush is trying to get the same oligarchic dictatorship in the U. S. that Fox had in Mexico (Jeb Bush=Vincente Fox’s brother-in-law).
May 25th, 2007 at 3:02 pmand the empire’s war goes on and on….and on. This will never end if we continue to rely on our politicians to end it for us. They’ll keep taking services and supplies and our money and lives - and sending them all off to fight their imperial wars.
How we can end this insidious policy of war? I’m not sure, but it needs to stop. now.
Some good thoughts on this:
“Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?”
May 25th, 2007 at 3:02 pmhttp://www.populistamerica.com/ is_imperial_liquidation_possible_for_america
So much for even the illusion of “Homeland Security”.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:02 pmWhat’s the story? An organization that oppresses brown people is being re-assigned to oppress and murder other brown people.
Shocking I tell you. Just shocking.
Maybe some of them will get killed. And then we can all weep for our fallen heroes, our instruments of genocide that passed before reaching their ultimate potential. Sad when you think about it.
May they all meet their just end.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pmHang on….I though there was some sort of illegal immigrant emergency that was going to end life as we know it.
And won’t this make the borders even easier for terrorists to cross, so they can attack us here in out own country?
Oh, I forgot…that’s what Iraq is for. “We’re fighting them there, so we don’t have to fight them here”. Apparently, it’s against union rules for a terrorist to attack us in our own country as long as we’re making a mess of Iraq. Or maybe Iraq is like a huge terrorist magnet, like an enormous bug zapper…the terrorists want to come attack us, but they just can’t seem to resist the siren call of Iraq. Who knows.
Seriously, think about this for a second. Our borders were never closed, even immediately after 9/11. According to the pundits, we’re going to be overrun by hispanics in five years, but no one seems to worry about a terrorist slipping over either the Mexican border (the porosity of which is legendary) or the Canadian border (the longest unguarded border in the entire world).
And now, the administration is going to siphon off border guards to for more meat for the grinder, dispelling even the illusion of a secure border.
What is wrong with this picture?
May 25th, 2007 at 3:06 pmThis is going to p!ss off a lot of the bigoted sheep doers…. some of these freaks are now talking about Alamo II.
Bush does not want to solve the immigration problem, we all know that. With what we currently have, wages are falling helping to eliminate the middle class and big business is reaping the profits.
Also, republicans like to keep immigration out there as a wedge issue. Immigration, abortion, gay rights all help divide the population so republicans can conquor.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:06 pmHey Jane….For once we agree on something other than the Mets! Dubya has done a positively AWFUL job on illegal immigration. I cannot and do not defend his abysmal record on this issue.
(As for the Mets, could we take at least ONE series from the Braves, for God’s sake?!)
May 25th, 2007 at 3:06 pmhallo Zooey!
May 25th, 2007 at 3:07 pmIs my Princess of Progress(TM) behaving herself today?
I seem to have forgotten, what did I do during my 8 years in office to control the border between Mexico and the USA?
anyone, any takers, please refresh my memory.
How did I patrol our borders?
in fact, can anyone tell me what our party, my party, the Democratic Party has done to control the border and stop the influx of illegal immigrants?
Seems that our outrage is once again full of hypocrisy.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:11 pmWho is next? The Cops from LA?
May 25th, 2007 at 3:12 pmWhy doesn’t Bush recruit those “Minutemen”? Put them where the real action is. And as TP noted a couple of days ago, they’ve got a lot of free time on their hands now.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:14 pmHahahahaha! Shows just how “serious” the Bush Administration is about immigration. LOSERS.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:16 pmHey, Exley, nice to know that we do agree on something. Although I personally have no strong feelings either way on immigration, if Republicans are going to trot out the idea that only their party can keep America safe, well, securing the borders (yes, both of them) and ports would seem logical and necessary.
And, yeah, our boys looked pretty lame, didn’t they? Well, Smoltz deserved his 200th win.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:19 pmIs my Princess of Progress(TM) behaving herself today?
Comment by whiteyfresh
Hell no, why would I start now? :-)
How are things, whitey?
May 25th, 2007 at 3:20 pm“DynCorp “is offering $134,100 for a one-year stay, plus a $25,000 signing bonus,†a reported 70% pay raise.”
Only a sucker would sign up as an army soldier or a marine. It’s much more lucrative to be a mercenary. That’s why I love this country.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:23 pmWow! That’s an amazing salary. And what does Dyna\Corp get on top? I don’t understand the neo-con propaganda that the private sector does things cheaper when clearly this is wildly expensive.
Well, this is all an attempt to avoid The Draft. Bush is running the military into the ground. It’s gonna be a generation before America can exercise it’s military might again in the World. And for that I am grateful.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:24 pmThe fact that the “war on drugs” is still going is proof that the govt is not serious about preventing terrorism.
The black market for drugs (created by their illegality) provides ready-to-use funding for terrorists and criminals.
Legalizing drugs would be the first step any country that is actually serious about stopping terrorism would take.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:25 pmHow amazing is it that this level of MALFEASANCE doesn’t percolate at all into the MSM. Al Qaida can walk across the border.
I swear to gawd, every day I find myself repeating the phrase: “If Clinton had done this…”
Well, If Clinton had been this negligent, Congress would vote for impeachment with jail time.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:26 pmJane,
I am kinda with you. Immigration is not really one of my “A” issues. My thoughts about it really don’t extend beyond the basic belief that legal immigration is great (My grandparents were immigrants) and benefits the U.S., but that illegal immigration should not be countenanced. And Bush has done very little to hamper illegal immigration and this new bill does next to nothing to discourage such unlawfulness.
Well, we’re still in first place, at least.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:27 pmThese actions of removing people smacks of the desperation BushCo is in with its “winning” policy in Iraq.
We begin to hear a conversation taking place deep and secure in the bowels of the White House. A loud mean spirited voice is speaking. Let’s listen!
“Scrape that bowl again Sergeant! We need more troops.”
But sir, we are at the bottom of the barrel already!
“Then lower the requirements further, damn it. This “war on terra” is important! And I’ve got Iran to worry about. I don’t care if they only have one leg left, send them back again. They’re not worth much with only one leg anyway, and besides, there giving their all for their country. Its about patriotism, damn it! Tell ‘em that sergeant”.
Yes SIR, MR. Vice President Cheney.
Fade to black…
May 25th, 2007 at 3:28 pmI didn’t realize the government was allowed to tell this folks who and where they can work. I always figured that we in America can choose to work for anyone we want. While it is sad that we could lose some good border agents, the only problem is the fact that the federal government simply can’t compete in the open market for good employee’s. The only fault of Bush is not paying them enough.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:29 pmWell, If Clinton had been this negligent, Congress would vote for impeachment with jail time.
Comment by bcinaz — May 25, 2007 @ 3:26 pm
Yeah but the republicans would have had the balls to keep it up, unlike the 110th congress who seem to fold rather quickly. Not that it’s a bad thing, there needs to be followers for there to be true leaders.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:34 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ELgFGd2fs
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin’/But build to destroy/You play with my world/Like it’s your little toy/You put a gun in my hand/And you hide from my eyes/And you turn and run farther/When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old/You lie and deceive/A world war can be won/You want me to believe/But I see through your eyes/And I see through your brain/Like I see through the water/That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers/For the others to fire/Then you set back and watch/When the death count gets higher/You hide in your mansion/As young people’s blood/Flows out of their bodies/And is buried in the mud
You’ve thrown the worst fear/That can ever be hurled/Fear to bring children/Into the world/For threatening my baby/Unborn and unnamed/You ain’t worth the blood/That runs in your veins
How much do I know/To talk out of turn/You might say that I’m young/You might say I’m unlearned/But there’s one thing I know/Though I’m younger than you/Even Jesus would never/Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question/Is your money that good/Will it buy you forgiveness/Do you think that it could/I think you will find/When your death takes its toll/All the money you made/Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die/And your death’ll come soon/I will follow your casket/In the pale afternoon/And I’ll watch while you’re lowered/Down to your deathbed/And I’ll stand o’er your grave/’Til I’m sure that you’re dead
May 25th, 2007 at 3:35 pmPrivatizing, or more correctly, pirating our armed services.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:37 pmHeckuva job chympie!
Comment by Masters of War — May 25, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Classic Dylan. Thanks, MOW.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:39 pmGroucho! You said the magic word! MinuteMen
May 25th, 2007 at 3:40 pmThe duck should be coming down right about now to give you your hundred dollars.
Send the minutemen to Iraq, so they can fight them there, so they don’t have to fight them here… or some such drivel…
Hey, RUCerious, how are you feeling? You ’sound’ like your same old self, hope you’re doing well.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:41 pmJane, back to work this week, was all in by Wed afternoon, took yesterday off and back to it today. Lunch almost over, back to the oars and shackles!
May 25th, 2007 at 3:43 pmTHIS IS SO DOG GONE FRIGGIN CORRUPT IT’S ENOUGH TO MAKE EVERYONE FRIGGIN PUKE PUKE PUKE
IT HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER WITH IMMIGRATION REFORM NOR SECURING THE BORDER.
THE GOAL IS TO COMPLETELY DISSOLVE THE BORDER WITH MEXICO AND CANADA AND COMPLETELY OPEN THEM UP DUDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
THIS AGAIN IS JUST ANOTHER OF BUSHS DECEPTIVE LIES
THE NORTH AMERICA FREE TRADE COMPLETELY DISSOLVES THE USA AND ENTERS US INTO A FREE TRADE UNION
IT’S SO DOG GONE TOTALLY CORRUPTED AS I EARLIER STATED - -
ANY POLITICAL PARASITE WHO LIES THROUGH THEIR FRIGGIN TEETH DUDE AND SIMPLY IS MUNIPULATING US DUDE
TO FRIGGIN SELL OUT THIS COUNTRY DUDE
RIGHT TO THE FRIGGIN SLAMMER NO QUESTIONS ASKED
THAT WOULD CLEAN THIS COUNTRY UP OF THESE POLITICAL PARASITES AND HOOLDUMS THAT TOTALLY CORRUPT PUBLIC SERVANTS - - DUDE
I HAVE NEVER WITNESSED NOT ONLY THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER
BUT LITERALLY A BUNCH OF SHISTERS DUDE…… SAY ONE THING AND DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT
AND ARE THOSE HOODLUMS HELD RESPONSIBLE
NO
NO
NO
DUDE….. IT’S TOTALLY RIGGED DUDE
ENOUGH TO MAKE EVERYONE BARF THESE TOTALLY CORRUPTED POLITICAL TERMITES IN THE SLAMMER DUDE
BUT YOU CAN’T DUDE… THEIR IMMUNED AND THE WHOLE ISSUE GETS FRIGGIN CORRUPTED… JUST LOOK AT SWINDLER BILLY DELAY
FOR FRIGGIN JEFFERSON OR THAT MATTER THE 110TH DUDE
TOTALLY
FRIGGIN
CORRUPTED
DUDE
AS I SAID DUDE
I SCRATCH YOU AND
YOU SCRATCH ME……….
IN SCOTLAND
OR MY YACHT
OR MY PRIVATE ISLAND
OR AT NIGHT ON THE TOWN ON HALLIBURTONS LUXURY JET
OR MONSANTOS
OR FRIGGIN COUNTLESS CEO’S LOBBYISTS PERKS DUDE
THE SYSTEM DUDE IS TOTALLY CORRUPTED WITH POLITICAL HOODLUMS,
PARASITES, TICKS, MAGGOTS, ROACHES, CHIGGARDS, SCUM BAGS
DUDE THEY GET THE HIGHEST CLASS SERVICE
AND WE GET FAR SUPERIOR SERVICE AT MCDONALDS DUDE :)
AND WHAT WE DO GET FROM OUR TRUSTY PUBLIC SERVANTS DUDE, WHAT
DO WE FRIGGIN GET… I’LL TELL YOU DUDE
- ROTTING FOOD CONTAINERS HEADING FOR THE LANDFILL DUDE
- THE GREASE PIT DUDE
- THE CRUMBS DUDE
+ A NICE BIG FAT 100 OR 200 YEAR LOAN INTEREST DUDE FOR ALL THE
FRIGGIN PORK AND TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FRIGGIN IRAQ
DUDE THAT’S WHAT WE FRIGGIN GET DUDE
ENOUGH TO FRIGGIN PUKE DUDE
May 25th, 2007 at 3:47 pmPRICELESS!!!!
Good thing we have no end in sight for this unnecessary war in Iraq
May 25th, 2007 at 3:47 pmWe have to fight them over there because there’s no one left to fight them over here.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:48 pmKeep getting better, RUC! Don’t do too much too fast, I tried that and I only had pneumonia!
Everyone have a good holiday, I’m outta here.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:48 pmBit confused here. Why does DynCorp need permission from Bush to recruit from Border Patrol ranks? Are Border Patrol not simply GS positions from which they can leave at any time if they want to?
May 25th, 2007 at 3:50 pmThis string and the one below it regarding the lack of helicopters for emergency evacuation in THIS country are only two of the many examples that clearly show that Bush et.al. are not at all interested in protecting the American people. Magicians. They use distraction, rhetoric and hyperbole to disguise their real motives. Will America have to look like the England of Orwell’s “1984″ before we recognize that we have a functional dictatorship in this country right now?
May 25th, 2007 at 3:56 pmblah, blah, blah…libtards…blah, blah, blah…surrender…blah, blah, blah…moonbats…blah, blah, blah…islamofacists…blah, blah, blah…
May 25th, 2007 at 3:57 pmThe last two paragraphs of the article are telling the story..
With the launch of Operation Jump Start last spring, the president announced the deployment of 6,000 National Guard troops to the border and pledged that they’d be replaced within a few years by an equal number of new Border Patrol agents.
But just one year later, half of those National Guard troops will soon be pulled from border duty, and fewer than 350 new agents have been hired.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:59 pmDUDE THIS IMMIGRATION REFORM IS NOTHING DIFFERENT THAN THE
SAVINGS/LOANS, OR WHITEWATER, OR WATERGATE DUDE, IT’S NO
DIFFERENT THAN YOU GET FRIGGIN SMOOTH, FAST TALKING PROMISE
MAKERS WHO LIE THROUGH THEIR FRIGGIN TEETH
NOT ONLY DURING THEIR CAMPAIGN PROMISES BUT TURN OUT LITERALLY
TO BECOME POLITICAL LEECHES OFF YOU AND ME AND LITERALLY
TERMITES TO INFEST SOCIETY WITH THEIR SELFISH HIGH CLASS WANTS
LIKE OWN THE GOVERNMENT SERVICES FOR THEMSELVES DUDE WITH
THEIR USUAL $100 INVESTMENT AND 6 MONTHS LATER YANK OUT $16,000
X 10 OR 100 X 1000 X 10,000… BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND IT AIN’T WASTE DUDE… IT FRIGGIN GOES SOMEWHERE DUDE
LISTEN, CONGRESS COULD END IRAQ IMMEDIATELY THE FRIGGIN MOST ACCOUNTABLE CONGRESS
EVER
AND IMPEACHMENT IS OFF THE TABLE, REAL LOBBY REFORM IS DEAD, NOT ONE FRIGGIN 100 HOUR IMPLANTED AND NOW WE GET SHAFTED AND SOLD OUT DUDE
THE FRIGGIN REAL ISSUE IS TO GIVE THE CENTRAL BANKS YET ANOTHER 100 BILLION DOLLARS IN INTEREST, CONTINUE THEIR BLANK CHECK POLICY FOR 500 MEMBERS PORK AND RUN THAT NATIONAL DEBT EVER HIGHER AND GUESS WHO PAYS THAT. IT REALLY DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER OR NOT WE WIN/LOOSE IN IRAQ, WHAT MATTERS IS YET ANOTHER BLANK CHECK, MAKING US DEBT SLAVES….
NOW THAT IS ONLY THEORY I DON’T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT IT’S TRUE DUDE
BUT I DO KNOW WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT RECEIVING ALL THESE WONDERFUL SERVICES WE ALL DESPERATELY NEED DUDE…
WE ARE SOLD OUT
WASHINGTON IS BOUGHT OUT
AND TOTALLY CORRUPTED DUDE
WITH SMOOZERS AND LEECHES AND PARASITES
AND DUDE WHAT DO WE ALL GET DUDE……
WE GET FRIGGIN FAR SUPERIOR SERVICE AT MCDONALDS WHO DOES
NOT EXPECT A $1000 TIP PER VISIT DUDE
NOW
JIMBO DUDE IS SO ULTIMATELY COOL DUDE AND ALWAYS SPEAKS THE TRUTH DUDE :)
May 25th, 2007 at 4:01 pmobviously slightly busy…sorry for my lack of posting/lagging when posting..
May 25th, 2007 at 4:03 pmgonna prime my interior tomorrow…
um, of my HOUSE, that is………
May 25th, 2007 at 4:09 pm(I’ll take ANY snarky responses though!!!)
DUDE
THERE
IS
NO
FRIGGIN
IMMIGRATION
REFORM
DUDE
JUST LIKE THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS INFLATION OR INTEREST DUDE
THE
REAL
FRIGGIN
ISSUE IS DISSOLVING THE BORDERS DUDE CANADA/MEXICO BORDERS
THIS HAS QUIETLY BEEN BEHIND THE SCENES DUDE
THAT’S THE ONGOING NAFTA, FTAA, CAFTA
LEECHES DUDE
THEY BECOME INFINITE POWER AND RICH RICH RICH
AND WE PAY PAY PAY, GET TURNED INTO A 3′RD WORLD COUNTRY
AND GET POOR POOR POOR
AGAIN THAT’S ONLY THEORY, BUT WE WILL KNOW FOR SURE ONCE IT’S
IMPLANTED
HOW THAT’S FOR THE MOST ACCOUNTABLE AND FULL DISCLOSURE OF
ALL THOSE WONDERFUL FRIGGIN SERVICES DUDE
I STAND STRONG DUDE
FAR FAR SUPERIOR SERVICE AT MCDONALD’S DUDE, LITERALLY A 4TH
RATE RESTRAUNT AND AS I STATED WHAT WE DO GET FROM OUR
TRUSTY
FAST SMOOTH TALKING + WHAT I SAID… ANY BROKEN PROMISE
SHOULD GO RIGHT TO THE FRIGGIN SLAMMER DUDE :)
NOW JIMBO DUDE IS ULTIMATE COOLNESS DUDE + SO HEAVELY AWESOME
May 25th, 2007 at 4:09 pmI’M SO COOL, I JUST HAPPEN TO BLOW PEOPLE AWAY DUDE IN ULTIMATE
TRUTH AND COOLNESS DUDE
Good thing none of those terrorists that want to kill our children and Bush is protecting us from, are not smart enough to cross the open border like millions of Mexicans.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pmMinimum wage up $2.10
Illegal Aliens will be up 20 million
Poverty will be up 200%
May 25th, 2007 at 4:12 pmMinimum wage up $2.10
Illegal Aliens will be up 20 million
Poverty will be up 200%
May 25th, 2007 at 4:14 pmONE LAST VERY IMPORTANT THING DUDE…
YOU KNOW JIMBO DUDE OVERALL IS TRYING TRYING TO BE HUMOROUS
DUDE…. BUT WE REALLY ARE DEALING WITH WHAT I UNDERSTAND
FREEDOM AND OUR FAITHFUL FOUNDING FATHERS CONSTITUTION..
LOOK AT THE FRIGGIN MESS WE ARE IN NOW
I STAND STRONG
FAR FAR SUPERIOR SERVICE FROM FRIGGIN A 5TH RATE FAST FOOD
RESTRAUNT CALLED MCDONALDS DUDE
THE FOOD THEIR IS SO FRIGGIN BAD IT AIN’T EVEN FOOD DUDE AND
IN MY BOOK MCDONALDS IS A+
AND ALL THE FRIGGIN 28% APPROVAL RATINGS IS MORE THAN 200%
May 25th, 2007 at 4:14 pmA COMPLETE FAILING GRADE… WE GET A+ SERVICE EQUIVELENT TO
THE GREASE PITS DUDE UNLESS OF COURSE YOU OWN A PRIVATE
ISLAND, CORPORATE JET, LAND DEAL OR WHATEVER ELSE DUDE
after this last vote, I am even more concerned about the issues regading the continuity of government, for the sake of transparency, I give you this:
AEI/PNAC-Is in charge of all documentation, laws, and procedures regarding the continuity of government.
http://www.continuityofgovernment.org/home.html
The same AEI/PNAC that wrote about the need for a 9/11 attack before 9/11 to justify invading the middle east to control their resources.
Other AEI/PNAC projects:
Patriot Act
Iraq War
Iraq Surge I
Iraq Surge II
Iran War Planning
Military Commissions Act
The Fight Against Rosie and other people who question the 9/11 commission
The immigration law with Chertoff
The Need for a National Drug and Gun Database to protect from another VT massacre
Who is AEI-Dick Cheney’s Wife Controls Everything, supporters are energy and military companies
Who are their presidential candidates?
May 25th, 2007 at 4:15 pmFred THompson
Newt Gingrich
gonna prime my interior tomorrow…
Comment by whiteyfresh
Is that what they’re calling it now?….
May 25th, 2007 at 4:16 pmum, of my HOUSE, that is………
(I’ll take ANY snarky responses though!!!)
Comment by whiteyfresh
Heh. I’ve you’re 100% prime, whitey. :-D
May 25th, 2007 at 4:23 pmEven discussing the use of “former” agents makes this story, which might otherwise have some credibility, a FLUKE. What makes you more angry? The amount of money they can make tax free? Or the prosecution of Agents Ramos and Compean?
May 25th, 2007 at 4:33 pmI suppose the logic is:
If we fight them there, we don’t have to keep them from crossing the border here.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:33 pm#11 F.O.S. as usual
As you listened to Chimpy juke and lie to the American base know that for the last 3 years DEMS have been pushing for more border agents. Then Bush abandons 9.700 border agent increase last year!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTF???!!!!!!
Bush budget scraps 9,790 border patrol agents
President uses law’s escape clause to drop funding for new homeland security force
Michael Hedges, Houston Chronicle
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
Washington — The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of Bush’s austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday.
Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California , along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year.
But Bush’s proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents
http://sfgate.com/ cgi-bin/ article.cgi?file=/ chronicle/ archive/ 2005/ 02/ 09/ MNGOKB8 37T1.DTL
May 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pmI suppose the logic is:
If we fight them there, we don’t have to keep them from crossing the border here.
Comment by Art — May 25, 2007 @ 4:33 pm
After Seymore Hersh revealed that unchecked funding of Bush wars goes to fund Al-Qaeda in tripoli…
The logic is: Keep the American people distracted as I lower defenses so that more terrorists can come here and blow something up. This will give Bush the right to invoke the Continuity of Government where he becomes the supreme ruler of the world.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:39 pm#11 Yet another b*tch slap of reality. How is your colon looking today?
Lieberman Amdt No. 3034; To protect the American people from terrorist attacks by providing $8 billion in additional funds for homeland security government-wide, by restoring cuts to vital first responder programs in the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, by providing an additional $1.2 billion for first responders, $1.7 billion for the Coast Guard and port security, $150 million for chemical security, $1 billion for rail and transit security, $456 million for FEMA, $1 billion for health preparedness programs, and $752 million for aviation security.
REJECTED by Republicans.
Menendez Amdt. No. 3054; To provide an additional $965 million to make our ports more secure by increasing port security grants, increasing inspections, improving existing programs, and increasing research and development, and to fully offset this additional funding by closing tax loopholes.
REJECTED by Republicans.
Stabenow Amdt. No. 3056; To provide $5 billion for our emergency responders so that they can field effective and reliable interoperable communications equipment to respond to natural disasters, terrorist attacks and the public safety needs of America’s communities and fully offset this by closing tax loopholes and collecting more from the tax gap.
REJECTED by Republicans
http://www.senate.gov/ legislative/ LIS/ roll_call_lists/ vote_menu_109_2.htm
May 25th, 2007 at 4:39 pmPerhaps he can call upon the cub scouts for the next surge.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:52 pmCommandos Get Duty on U.S. Soil
New York Times, Jan. 23, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/ 2005/ 01/ 23/ national/ nationalspecial3/ 23code.html?ex=1107838800&en=99185a9d16428e44&ei=5070&oref=login
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012405F.shtml - free copy
Mr. Arkin, in the online supplement to his book (codenames.org/documents.html ), says the contingency plan, called JCS Conplan 0300-97, calls for “special-mission units in extra-legal missions to combat terrorism in the United States” based on top-secret orders that are managed by the military’s Joint Staff. Mr. Arkin provided The New York Times with briefing slides prepared by the Northern Command, detailing the plan and outlining the military’s preparations for the inauguration. Three senior Defense Department and Bush administration officials confirmed the existence of the plan and mission, but disputed Mr. Arkin’s characterization of the mission as “extra-legal.”
THE COMING WARS, by Seymour M. Hersch
The New Yorker, Jan. 24, 2005
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/050124fa_fact
“This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone,†the former high-level intelligence official told me. “Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign.” The President has signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia. “The Pentagon doesn’t feel obligated to report any of this to Congress,†the former high-level intelligence official said. “They don’t even call it ‘covert ops’—it’s too close to the C.I.A. phrase. In their view, it’s ‘black reconnaissance.’ They’re not even going to tell the cincsâ€â€”the regional American military commanders-in-chief.
Free trade leaves world food in grip of global giants
Guardian, Jan. 27, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ globalisation/ story/ 0,7369,1399480,00.html
Global food companies are aggravating poverty in developing countries by dominating markets, buying up seed firms and forcing down prices for staple goods including tea, coffee, milk, bananas and wheat, according to a report to be launched today. Two companies dominate sales of half the world’s bananas, three trade 85% of the world’s tea, and one, Wal-mart, now controls 40% of Mexico’s retail food sector. It also found that Monsanto controls 91% of the global GM seed market.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:05 pm“DynCorp “is offering $134,100 for a one-year stay, plus a $25,000 signing bonus,†a reported 70% pay raise. Further, “[t]he first $90,000 in income is tax free, and housing and food are free.â€
And our men and women in the military make $20,000 a year with maybe a $5,000 signing bonus and they have to pay $5 for their meals.
The one thing that the Democrats could have done in the emergency funding bill would have been to cut off any money that went to hiring mercenaries, i.e. Blackwater. Actually, if Congress were to cut off all money to contractors in Iraq, the occupation would be over tomorrow.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:16 pm#17 Comment by Patrick1 — May 25, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
Only a sucker would sign up as an army soldier or a marine. It’s much more lucrative to be a mercenary. That’s why I love this country.
My, my Pee1, I did not know you were now located over in Iraq! Hey folks, Pee1 is really doing something. Now don’t make a fool out of me Pee1, you really are over there, aren’t you????
May 25th, 2007 at 5:19 pmAnd our men and women in the military make $20,000 a year with maybe a $5,000 signing bonus and they have to pay $5 for their meals.
http://www.defenselink.mil/ militarypay/ pay/ bp/ paytables/ fy2007_apr_basicpay.html
http://www.military.com/ benefits/ military-pay/ basic-allowance-for-subsistence
May 25th, 2007 at 6:55 pmDYNCORP HAS TOTALLY BOUGHT OUT WASHINGTON
SO HAS HALLIBURTON DUDE
JIMBO STANDS STRONG………………………..
A+ RATING OF SERVICE AT MCDONALDS FOR US REGARDING THE WORST
JUNK FOOD, UNFIT FOR HUMAN HEALTH
AND ALL THESE WONDERFUL SERVICES WE ALL SO DESPERATELY NEED
28% APPROVAL RATING = MORE THAN 200% THE FRIGGIN MINIMUM PASSING GRADE THAT IS DOUBLE F’S
NOW AS EVERYONE KNOWS JIMBO DUDE ALWAYS SPEAKS THE TRUTH…..
ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY DUDE, UTMOST IMPECCIBLE ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY DUDE AND THE UTMOST HONESTY
AND WHAT JIMBO DUDE IS SAYING LOAD UP THE FRIGGIN SLAMMER WITH ANYONE MAKING FALSE CAMPAIGN PROMISES TO LIE THROUGH THEIR FRIGGIN FALSE TEETH TO HIT THE ELF’S POT DUDE AND BLANK CHECK
DUDE.
NOW JIMBO DUDE FULLY UNDERSTANDS EXACTLY WHAT CORRUPTION IS
DUDE…. THEY AIN’T YA FAIR WITH DUDE AND YA DUDETTE IS FAIR WITH
YA DUDE.
WE HAVE BEEN BOUGHT OUT DUDE, FRIGGIN TOTALLY SOLD OUT.
NOW. JIMBO DUDE DOESN’T KNOW FOR SURE THAT’S TRUE DUDE…. SO
NOW IT’S TIME FOR JIMBO DUDE TO TAKE A CHILL PILL DUDE…..
AND THAT AIN’T INCLUDING TOTALLY CORRUPTION DOWNIN NOTHING THAT IS RELATED TO PROHIBITION OR SMOKIN ANYTHING UP NOTHIN DUDE…
JIMBO DUDE IS TOTALLY HEAVENLY AWESOME DUDE AND TOTALLY SQUEEKY CLEAN DUDE.
I JUST CANNOT HELP IT I’M SO HEAVENLY AWESOME AND TOTALLY COOL DUDE, SO COOL INFACT, OFTEN I BLOW PEOPLE AWAY DUDE.
ANYHOW :)
TIME TO DO SOME CHILLIN DUDE :)
May 25th, 2007 at 7:05 pmoh. great.
Federal Law Enforcement Agents getting combat experience.
GREAT plan, chimpy.
F’ing BRILLIANT.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:34 pmAnd this compares to our soldier’s pay by a factor of how much?
May 25th, 2007 at 8:01 pmAnd where does this company get all their money?
And how much did they contribute to political campaigns?
And who’s sleeping with who?
And?
And?
Dear master of war - Cute site!! Haven’t seen that many conspiracy theories since….”Conspiracy Theory”…..You might ask Nurse Ratchett to adjust your meds……
May 25th, 2007 at 8:08 pmSpare no expense to protect…
…the oil pipeline…
…and various corporate cash cows…
…no bid, no oversight contracts…
…and the corrupt Iraqi puppet government…
May 25th, 2007 at 8:24 pmHow about if the Minutemen suck it up and go to Iraq instead?
May 25th, 2007 at 8:29 pm#37 Comment by Patrick1 Troll Clone — May 25, 2007 @ 3:57 pm
blah, blah, blah…libtards…blah, blah, blah…surrender…blah, blah, blah…moonbats…blah, blah, blah…islamofacists…blah, blah, blah…
And here is yet another brilliantly intelligent post by our new Iraq-private-army-volunteer, Pee1. Tell us Pee1 how did you come up with this amazing thought? Oh and when did you say you were shipping out? Can’t be too soon you know! they need cannon fodder like you over there in a hurry.
May 25th, 2007 at 9:21 pmDear master of war - Cute site!!
Comment by valiant venus — May 25, 2007 @ 8:08 pm
Thanks dude. I didn’t think you would bother to look. Appreciate the kind feedback!
Here I worked on this video for you:
http://www.youtube.com/?v=g0ELgFGd2fs
I also worked on a few more pages, check this one out and tell me what you think :)
http://masters-of-war.org/deathculture2.html
I thought it might be a little risque to talk about the DU poisoning that will infect over 1,000,000 of our brave men and women in the armed services. But since congress does not seem to care about bringing our troops home, I think it is time that people were honest about how things really are over there. Vainly valient, if you got some pics of Depleated Uranium babies to add to the site let me know.
Thanks again for your support. It is only through teamwork that we will get our kids home.
May 25th, 2007 at 9:21 pmBush wants the Mexican border to remain wide-open, and unsecured, so drug traffickers can cross into US whenever they want and masses of migrant workers flooding in to keep US wages depressed for everyone.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:12 pmBRIBING MERCENARIES LAVISHLY TO KILL INNOCENT IRAQIS! Way to go GOP! If they gave such beneficent pay to regular civilian employess in the USA we probably wouldn’t be having the gang warfare and skyrocketing murder rates we have…
May 26th, 2007 at 10:11 amI am all for skimming the Minutemen for cannonfodder. Somehow, I don’t think that is their idea.
May 26th, 2007 at 11:25 pmDynCorp “is offering $134,100 for a one-year stay, plus a $25,000 signing bonus,†a reported 70% pay raise. Further, “[t]he first $90,000 in income is tax free, and housing and food are free.â€
If that’s what they (DynCorp) are offering, how much is the government giving them?? $500k per? I’d like to see the figures there. Do we forget that they are being paid with our (tax) money?!
Bleeding this country dry from every possible angle! It’s standard practice in empire building.. Weak republic, strong empire… and it’s getting gross.
How much blood and treasure will it require before we get pissed enough to storm the gates? There are 300 million of us. Only a few dozen of them.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:09 am