Reps push Pentagon to move equipment to border

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Reps push Pentagon to move equipment to border
March 27, 2012 9:24 AM

Two Texas lawmakers are pushing the Pentagon to hand off surplus combat equipment from Iraq to local law enforcement agencies along the U.S.-Mexico border. The equipment includes Humvees, weapons and night vision goggles.

The Houston Chronicle reports Texas Reps. Ted Poe and Henry Cuellar (QUAY'-yar) have been joined by 17 border sheriffs from Texas, New Mexico and Arizona in a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta requesting that he move up delivery of surplus equipment.

The lawmakers said more than 1.5 million pieces of equipment have already been shipped out of Iraq over the last year and nearly 900,000 remain.

Poe also has a bill pending in Congress that would require the Department of Defense to make 10 percent of certain equipment returning from Iraq available to law enforcement agencies patrolling the southern border.


Read more: http://www.oaoa.com/news/equipment-84720-border-texas.html

[rhett o rick]

1. This is not good. This equipment will be available to quell the Amerian Spring. nm

[atreides1]

2. This is interesting

One could surmise that Texas seems to want a lot of military surplus equipment for protection of the border...but with governor goodhair it could be for another reason.

Putting on the old tin foil hat...let's look at the main 3 states patrolling our southern border...all are governed by republicans, two of which we know have no respect for this president or this current administration...the three are Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico...now what else could these three malcontent Southwestern States do with surplus military equipment?

Just thinking outside the box!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Oh goodie! We can then have 'Trayvon Martin' on a massive scale.