Under The Bus
That’s where Hillary Clinton threw the US in Mexico. Washington Post, blame accepted for drug trade. Sure, our appetite for drugs, fueled by 1960s counterculture values and amped up in permanent ghettos 40 years worth of Democratic welfare policies failed to eradicate, makes it big business. There are a few issues. For starters, the guns south part:
Mexican authorities also blame some of the violence on the flow of American guns, which have been used in about 90 percent of the drug killings, according to both U.S. and Mexican officials.
Do they even make guns in Mexico? OK, shut down American firearms factories because the Mexicans can’t control their territory. A lot of those bodies along the border turn up with their heads cut off. American knives or Mexican ones? Shut down those factories, too. Newsbusters notes that many of the weapons described in condemnations of Mexican drug violence are already heavily regulated and not readily available in the United States, or not produced here.
No mention of decades of Mexican political and police corruption, though the Post article does say Mexico bristles when anyone brings up the fact that it has lost control of large parts of its territory. Sorry about that. Also no mention of the fact that Mexico and the Democrats in recent years seem to have favored policies that would allow anyone to cross the border when and where they choose, without hindrance. The AP remarked in its story that failure to acknowledge American guilt was paricularly marked under the Bush admin, but the Post article notes that the Bush admin tried to cough up $950 million for Mexican and Central American drug-fighting gear, but Congress shortsheeted that by $250 million. Presumeably due to other priorities.
Topics: drugs
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:54 pm Comments (3) on Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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March 26th, 2009 at 10:02 am
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March 26th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
The Democrats invented the addiction to narcotics? Oh, come on, Jules.
March 26th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Actually they only invented the access to the drugs. Very seldom in my younger days did I see a conservative who was high. To be honest with you I don’t remember any who were. Sho’ a lot o’ libs though. They thought it was Groo-vey.