Posted on 08/09/2012 9:09:10 AM PDT by EveningStar
A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody is making startling allegations that the failed federal gun-walking operation known as “Fast and Furious” isn’t what you think it is.
It wasn’t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them — all part of an elaborate agreement between the U.S. government and Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels.
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Does he even care?
The Justice Department says different. So who ya gonna believe, a vicious, corrupt, murdering international criminal...or this Mexican guy?
Can u REALLY believe this criminal? Maybe the Rats can say the same thing and the GOP will benefit(racists).
I have my reservations about the bush administration as well. Do the name johnny sutton ring a bell?
Perhaps it was/is believed that a single Cartel in charge in Mexico would be handled more easily than the plethora of organizations there now. Perhaps it was not understood that a cartel that strong could sweep away the Mexican government and take total charge of the country very easily but that lack of understanding is not likely. What is the American goal in Mexico? Destruction of the state? to what end?
The ATF has been FUBAR since 1968.
No Republican has the balls to abolish it or break it up.
Both parties use the ATF to push policy....some policy which is political in nature.
and folks wonder how totalitarians get started.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyqBxD-3xw
"Change the way people think about guns.. brainwash them."
First, there are much easier ways to do this.
Second, the weapons involved were neither numerous enough or advanced enough to provide anyone an edge.
If you only read the first 2 or 3 paragraphs you’ll think that it’s Bush’s fault.
Mis-information through lies, via criminal.
That’s all this is.
From the golden triangle, to soldiers in Afghanistan, to Mena airport in Arkansas in the 80s, our government has a long history of happily allowing drug production/smuggling in exchange for military and CIA goals.
Combine that with the billions knowingly laundered by mainstream banks, and the fact that you don’t exactly see anyone moving to close the border with a nation involved in a narco civil war and yes, it’s pretty obvious that our intelligence agencies and government are cutting deals with some cartels.
Yep. Ain’t it great the mafia has taken over the Republic?
The ATF has been FUBAR since 1968.
No Republican has the balls to abolish it or break it up.
Both parties use the ATF to push policy....some policy which is political in nature.
and folks wonder how totalitarians get started.
Right now our soldiers in Afghanistan are forbidden from damaging poppy crops. They must walk right by the fields, right out in the open like wheat in Kansas, knowing what it is and where it’s headed.
Thats our government policy and tells you all you need to know.
Who else is in favor of renaming the Sinaloa cartel the Obama-Holder Cartel?
Yup.
Not so explosive. I suggested the same thing on FR more than once.
Like Whitey Bulger using the FBI to whack rivals, 0bama’s regime aided certain cartels. What was the price? Money, blow, girls, boys?
Ulsterman Insider revealed another shoe to drop coming against Holder & Justice. This has to be it. The regime has to ne in a state of high panic with this revelation beginning to get out.
Great post, ES!
As much as I was disappointed and disgusted with Bush II in his 2nd term, I do not believe Bush II would ever authorize arming and financing Mexican drug cartels to take down other cartels.
I do believe the Left would support such actions in an effort to topple the capitalists in Mexico. A communist controlled Mexico would be a prize to the Left.
That's just fine by me. No more War on Drugs where they're grown. No more War on Drugs on the border. No more War on Drugs on the streets, or in people's homes.
How long would it take for drug lords to settle down into to some sort of civilized place? Decades? A couple centuries? Bootleggers did it. Vikings became Normans, who became French and English nobility.
Fifty years of this corrupting War on Drugs - it's not working out too well.
I think that's always been the dominant Conservative belief about the activity ~ but the Mittbots wouldn't go along with it ~ wouldn't be prudent I guess.
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