The National Guard Canard

OK, I've about had it with "If so many of the National Guard troops weren't in Iraq, they could be deployed to the Gulf Coast." This seems to me to be the predominant logic train on the Left these days: "Get out of poverty by becoming a millionaire. Step One, get a million dollars..." It explains why someone like Wes Clarke is so resonant with this vacuous audience.

Reality check: the National Guard's primary function is to serve in military deployments, NOT civilian disaster relief. When they are available for that purpose, it is because they are not off fighting a war and for lack of a better way of saying it, have time on their hands. But the reality is that we no longer have that luxury. So can we stop with the false choice of Iraq or Katrina?