***CAPTION THIS*** Mexican Soldiers In Showdown With U.S. Marines At Funeral In Mexico (Photo)

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[AmericanInTokyo]

Mexican soldiers, left, in green argue with a group of U.S. Marines, two of whom were carrying non-working ceremonial rifles during the funeral of 22-year-old Juan Lopez in his hometown of San Luis de la Paz in central Mexico, Sunday, July 4, 2004. The U.S. Embassy on Tuesday, July 6, 2004 sent a diplomatic note to Mexico's government demanding to know why Mexican troops interrupted the funeral of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq (news - web sites) and was being buried in his hometown in central Guanajuato state. Mexican soldiers with automatic weapons disrupted the graveside burial of Lance Cpl. Juan Lopez on Sunday, after taking issue with two non-working, ceremonial rifles carried by two Marines who traveled from the United States to take part in the funeral. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

[KiloLima]

Once they get a job HERE in the U.S., they're officious a**h**es. Because they do so much shoplifting themselves and stealing from their employers HERE, they watch us for the same. I live in Mexifornia, by the way. . .

Once I wished Mr. President happy birthday today, I added in a link to this article and thread. Add this to the booing of the National Anthem at a soccer match in Mexico City, add to presidente fox's vocal opposition to the Coalition, mexico's friendliness with cuba, this DEMANDS a response.

[Beckwith]

Screw France. Right after that, Screw Mexico.

Those ungrateful suckers send all their unemployed to the States to make a living and then presume to tell us how to run our country.

If I were president, I would build a canal, 1,000 feet wide and 100 feet deep between The United States and that country to our south.

[Mike-o-Matic]

Not that I'm advocating your idea or anything, but wouldn't 20 feet deep (or less) do the job, too?

[Joe 6-pack]

"If I were president, I would build a canal, 1,000 feet wide and 100 feet deep between The United States and that country to our south."

They'd steal your water.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

One can understand why the Mexicans would get a bit edgy about US Marines in Mexico with weapons.

They weren't weapons. They were props.

[KeyLargo]

Hey gringo! Yo Quiero Taco Smell!

Click the link for a few laughs!:

http://newgrounds.com/assassin/tacobell/

[gimme1ibertee]

"If I were president, I would build a canal, 1,000 feet wide and 100 feet deep between The United States and that country to our south."

...And fill it with piranhas!!!

[johnb838]

They wanted to do a 21-gun salute for this kid who died a hero in Iraq. The mess-can govt said no. These ceremonial rifles were in the color guard. The mess-can army disrupted the funeral because of them.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

If I were president, I would build a canal, 1,000 feet wide and 100 feet deep between The United States and that country to our south.

And fill it with these
Half an hour after being taken out of the water this piranha was still very much alive!

[johnb838]

I don't know about bayonets, but they have real rifle butts.

[johnb838]

aye to the top. Let's kick their mess-can @sses back to mess-co where they belong. Then we wouldn't have ANY damn unemployment.

[Spok]

It seems to me that when we send Marines into Mexico, it should be several divisions-with live ammo...and armor...and artillery...and air support.

[KeyLargo]

Mexican Army Invades U.S. Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com Wednesday, March 12, 2003 It’s the war nobody wants to talk about: well-armed Mexican soldiers storming across America’s southern border, sometimes with guns blazing. “We are in state of war,” Edward Nelson, chairman of U.S. Border Control, told Soldier of Fortune magazine. “And we are fighting enemies who have brought the battle to our shores. If ever there was a time for the United States to put troops on the border, it is now.” A blockbuster exposé in the magazine's March issue notes that over the past five years, there have been 120 documented incidents of Mexican military/police incursions, sometimes resulting in the arrest of Mexican army personnel on U.S. soil by Border Patrol agents. Thousands of Mexican soldiers, often ill-trained draftees, have been moved up to the border allegedly to fight narcotics smuggling. Many times these armed men cross the border chasing drug traffickers. “Anytime you have the Mexican military running around with all these weapons and military gear it’s quite frightening,” said Raleigh Leonard, a Border Patrol public information officer. The magazine cites incidents such as the one in March 2000 where soldiers in two Mexican army Humvees fired on Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, and another in October, when 10 Mexican soldiers fired at a Border Patrol helicopter in California. Rep. Tom Tancredo, chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, said in a May 2002 press release that there were 23 incursions by Mexican authorities in 2001 alone. In a letter to Soldier of Fortune magazine, a Border Patrol agent stated that “The vast majority of the American people are totally oblivious that armed forces of a foreign nation routinely violate the sovereignty of the U.S.” Shockingly, the agent revealed, “Our government is aware of these incidents, but refuses to take any steps to stop these flagrant violations.” Soldier of Fortune cites a series of incidents that have taken place this year: Humvees full of troops pointing a rifle at Border Patrol agents. Incursions by “groups of six to eight armed men, possibly Mexican cops wearing black bulletproof vest and carrying machine guns. A Chevy Suburban hit five times by gunfire and containing 22 “undocumented migrants,” more accurately called illegal aliens, eight of whom suffered gunshot wounds fired from a Mexican army vehicle, which then fled back across the border to Mexico. Some of these “anti-drug-trafficking troops” are themselves trafficking in drugs. “Many U.S. law-enforcement officials working along the border acknowledge the involvement of Mexican military troops and police in narcotics trafficking and migrant smuggling business,” the magazine says. “Many Mexican police agencies along the border are in the pay of the narcotraficantes and the corruption extends to high-ranking key Mexican military officers.” And “Drug cartels spend $500 million a year to pay off corrupt Mexican generals and police officials.” Said Congressman Tancredo: “There’s no doubt Mexican military units along the border are being controlled by drug cartels, and not by Mexico City. The military units operate freely, with little or no direction, and several of them have made numerous incursions into the Unite States.” Trancredo warned that “unless we open our eyes and recognize that what’s happening along the U.S.-Mexican border is real, one of our guys is going to get killed.”

[reagandemocrat]

Aye!

RD

[Regulator]

The Mexicans soldiers in that photo are little poodles with an inferiority complex....so I'm not generalizing about *all* Mexicans

Don't apologise. Your description pretty much nails it.

[Tailback]

That's not a bad idea considering that bast@rd Carter giving away the Panama canal to the Chinese. An added benefit would be we could put anyone that swims the canal on the olympic swimming development team.

[A CA Guy]

No funeral until we get our cut of the action. We want $1000 or no funeral will happen here today.

[TexasTransplant]

I seconded this motion, moved it to the floor for a vote and my Wife (Maiden name Lopez, from the Velasco clan) is in 100% agreement.

President Fox needs to have his Henhouse shaken up.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Three rifle volleys, not a 21-gun salute.

[longtermmemmory]

who wants to be that those mexican "soldiers" were looking for bribe money to go away.

The mexican police shakedown tourists, it stands to reason the mexican army does the exact same thing.