Like an elephant hiding in the rose garden

[IMaDick]

What stands out to you in this story?

•New Mexico National Guard: www.nm.ngb.army.mil/

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Quick look

•As many as 440 New Mexico National Guard soldiers are being deployed to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt for at least 10 months.

•The Guard's 1^st Battalion, 200^th Infantry Division, based in Las Cruces, will serve as the umbrella organization for the deployment.

•Soldiers from at least 30 communities across New Mexico are involved in the deployment as Multinational Force observers.

•Their mission is to ensure that a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is being enforced.

•The soldiers will observe and verify compliance with the treaty, and report any violations of it.

•The area where the mission is conducted is approximately 300 miles from Cairo.

[Cracker]

I'm not in the mood for a quiz, but it always bothered me that we use the Guardsmen overseas. They were established to be our state's militias used for defense of our own soil and for natural disasters and for 10K races (aren't they always there? haha).

I don't know the deployment history of the Army or Air Force National Guard, but I remember being shocked by that when a unit close to me was deployed to Iraq. We have Reservists for that.

I guess the Guard isn't as scary as sending soldiers or Marines?


Isn't there a fucking UN force for this kind of shit?

[IMaDick]

We are allies with israel, our troops will be in a country that recently came under the control of the muslim brotherhood. exactly whose side are we on?

If location means anything we are there to keep israel from breaking the treaty.

[Cracker]

Maybe we are on that side because we don't want the fuckers to step foot into Israel.

The Jews hate Obama now. He plays up the Muslim side and pretends his mother isn't Jewish. Obama is a Jew, but the kind of Jew that would have been a boss in the concentration camps.

I am Israel's friend. I am disgusted about the way Obama handles our relations with them. I am also disgusted Obama is having "peace talks" with the Taliban. He is going to give the country back to them even though there is already an Afghan government. All those lives will be lost for nothing. You have no idea how angry I am about it.

At least Bush didn't bargain with terrorists. Because the Taliban ARE terrorists. Fuck Obama.