As Pawlenty campaigns to be Prez... MN Guard members are dying

[annm4peace]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6770226

[Scruffy1]

1. So is our state

while boy wonder is out looking for a new job our hospitals, schools, roads and people are suffering.
perhaps this will serve to wake up some voters but I doubt it. We need a new party with new ideas. See ya Saturday at Loring Park.

[CubFan7125]

2. Blame Obama

You do realize the Pawlenty cannot bring those troops fome from Iraq and Afghanastan, that is up to Barack Obama.

Please grow up and don't blame T-Paw for thinks he has no control over. If you want to call out someone for this it should be Obama, not Pawlenty.

For the record, I support out efforts in Afghanastan and think we never should have gone into Iraq.

[annm4peace]

3. National Guard falls under our Governor

The October 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force, which enabled President Bush to send our National Guard to Iraq, has expired. No weapons of mass destruction were ever found and therefore no UN resolutions remain to be enforced. Clearly, Iraq does not pose a threat to our national security. In the absence of any authority to keep the State Guard in Federal service, the authority over them should revert back to the State, where we need them most.
Congress would have to pass a new Authorization to Use Military Force to keep them overseas.

It is clear that the mission that Congress authorized no longer exists. The President has no current or permanent legal authority to keep Guard members in Iraq. The Governor as Commander-in-Chief of the the State National Guard should take necessary steps to bring them home.

http://www.bringtheguardhome.org/