Cross-posted at MyLeftWing.
Kicking off what should prove to be a very interesting week.
Today’s cartoon deals with something I don’t get. The Right makes such a big deal about border security and how easy it was for the 9/11 hijackers to get in and stay in the U.S. after their visas expired, yet now it turns out that illegal immigrants have been found to be working at military bases across the country and you don’t hear much of anything about it in the MSM. Why not?
It seems to me this once again puts the lie to Bush’s claims of “making America safer” whether it is regarding disaster preparedness (Katrina and New Orleans) or illegals on bases. If honest people who are just looking for a better life can slip past security, what about someone who really means to do us some harm?
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Political Animals – Featuring an All-Nude Cast!
And if you look at the rolls of the military you will see a lot of latinos. The military has, in the past, been a way to get money and education. With the Rummy this has changed a great deal. Now it is just a way to get NEO CONNED.
Conned is right. The Pentagon is reneging on a $15,000 re-enlistment bonus for Guard and Reserve members who extend their enlistments for six years. Read about it here at Patty Murray’s web site which refers to a Tacoma News Tribune article.
And they wonder why enlistment numbers have tanked. Not exactly my idea of supporting the troops.