Bush to deploy troops at the border

He finally announced it.

"We do not yet have full control of the border and I am determined to change that," the president said in pressing for his $1.9 billion plan in a 17-minute prime-time address from the Oval Office.

The Guard troops would mostly serve two-week stints before rotating out of the assignment, so keeping the force level at 6,000 over the course of a year could require up to 156,000 troops.

And a Republican Governor says he doesn't like it

"So if you have 6,000 in Iraq and send another 6,000 to the border, what do we have left?" Schwarzenegger asked.

Instead of solving any problem in immigration, I actually think it's an important step for the Bush government to pull the troops out f Iraq. He can easily claim that now we need more troops here rather than there. Who knows.