BREAKING NEWS! BUSH LIES!

From Oak Leaf at the right-wing blog PoliPundit:

Tuesday, August 01st, 2006

National Guard Border Numbers Are A Carnival Shell Game, It’s That Bad

Today is the "deadline" for "troops to the border" and I am extremely sad to write that sending the National Guard to the “Southern Border” is turning out to be an embarrassing failure....

... in order to find the proverbial “ball under the shell” we first need to go back to the Presidents Address to the Nation on May 15, 2006 to determine the deployment standard:

"... in coordination with governors, up to 6,000 Guard members will be deployed to our southern border...."

Yesterday, Col. Mark Allen, a spokesman for the National Guard Bureau said that "2,000 to 3,000 were on the border, most searching for illegal activity” ...

...So, just what are these troops doing ...[?]:

"California has assigned more than 1,200 troops, Guard spokesman Maj. Dan Markert said Monday. About half will be at the border looking for illegal activity; the other half will be in support roles ranging from plumbers to office workers." ...

What?! Do you mean to tell me that Bush will promise anything to get critics off his back, then turn around and do whatever the hell he wants, and when you look back at his original statement you realize he was using weasel-words all along?

I am shocked. Shocked!