Bush is weakening the National Guard. Didn't he once pretend to be member of the National Guard?

Governors of both parties said Sunday that Bush administration policies were stripping the National Guard of equipment and personnel needed to respond to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, forest fires and other emergencies.

Tens of thousands of National Guard members have been sent to Iraq, along with much of the equipment needed to deal with natural disasters and terrorist threats in the United States, the governors said here at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association.

The governors said they would present their concerns to President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday. In a preview of their message, all 50 governors signed a letter to the president opposing any cuts in the size of the National Guard.

"Unfortunately," the letter said, "when our National Guard men and women return from being deployed in foreign theaters, much of their equipment remains behind." The governors said the White House must immediately re-equip Guard units "to carry out their homeland security and domestic disaster duties."

This is just more evidence to support my contention that Bush is dangerously weakening our security here at home in favor of waging that criminal war in Iraq. Then he has the audacity to spend all of his time bragging about how much safer we are because of his policies. In truth the exact opposite is true! Bush has made us much, much less safe in America!

This is a point which must be hammered home as often as possible! Especially with so many Republicans expecting to ride his coattails into their 2006 re-elections.