Barbara Boxer, (yes it was difficult just to type her name) blamed President Bush, (watch the John Gibson video here) for the widespread fire damage because there would be twice as many guard troops and equipment to fight the fires if all those guard troops weren't deployed fighting that damn war in Iraq (that she voted FOR!!!).
What a load of crap. I looked into the facts, here they are;
California has somewhere between 21,000 and 25,000 National Guard members.
Currently about 3,000-4,500 of those troops are "deployed".
That's mostly from one unit, the 1st Brigade of the 40th ID.
around 85% of the California guard troops aren't deployed. A logical assumption would be that around 85% of their equipment isn't deployed either, (though you don't use army tanks and howitzers to fight fires).
Barbara Boxer is an ingnoramus attempting to make political hay from a tragic diasaster. What a Neo-Scalawag.
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