Posted on 03/07/2009 7:06:48 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama was briefed Saturday by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen about the drug wars in Mexico and wanted to know how the United States can help.
"Clearly one of the things the president was interested in was the U.S military capability that may or may not apply to our cooperation with the Mexicans," said a U.S. military official who requested anonymity because the discussions were private. "He was very interested in what kind of military capabilities may be applied."
Mullen briefed Obama Saturday morning about discussions with Mexican military leaders about the drug wars there.
Mullen, who was in Mexico on Friday, has referred to the recent spike in violence as a crisis. Mullen has said Mexico could borrow from U.S. tactics in the fight against terrorism as it battles a crisis of drug-related violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Mexico will collapse by fall after the riots in LA this summer.
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Amen! Heck, the National Guard can do their jobs by just standing on the other side of the fence while the leechers..er, I mean mexicans can fight THEIR drug war.
Mexico is so screwed if Obama “helps” them with their drug war like he is “helping” our country’s economic problems.
I agree with you. If we setup a safe zone for those Mexicans within that buffer zone, we will do more to help stabilize it for the honest Mexicans who want a better life IN their own country.
Bad things are coming.
No invasion needed. We don’t need anything there except tequila. We have bigger fish to fry like Venezuela, China, Russia etc.
Just booby trap the border with motion detector-connected machine guns and landmines on the border and we’re set. No manpower needed.
Somehow I think Mexico would come out ahead in the long run if it was Obama doing the invading. Like if we take Baja N and S, and most of Northern Mexico, then gave everyone there health care and Alternative Tax payouts.
Plus the disarmament issue I mentioned previously.
Mexico is a socialist state, that’s why you can’t grow strawberries in Mexico, but yo can in California with Mexican labor.
Mexico’s gun laws responsible for violent holocaust?
Austin Gun Rights Examiner | 5 March, 2009 | Howard Nemerov
Posted on 03/06/2009 7:06:06 AM PST by marktwain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200651/posts
You and I Can’t Buy the Guns Mexican Cartels Own
Gun News Daily | March 1 2009 | Ralph Weller
Posted on 03/04/2009 10:28:42 AM PST by atomic_dog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199138/posts
Mexican Drug Cartels Binge on American Bullets
Pajamas Media | March 6 | Todd Bensman
Posted on 03/06/2009 3:06:23 PM PST by AJKauf
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201024/posts
Obama, Holder, Mexico, and a Gun Ban
chrisdeweese.com | 3/4/09 | Chris DeWeese
Posted on 03/04/2009 8:17:08 PM PST by Chris DeWeese
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2199571/posts
Sen. Cornyn to Obama: Come see Mexican cartel violence
Dallas Morning News | Mar. 3, 2009 | Jason Trahan
Posted on 03/06/2009 3:05:45 PM PST by AuntB
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201023/posts
This is getting ugly, isn’t it?
Oh yeah. Nice of the media to pay a little attention to it finally.
Why does this all make me very nervous?
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I wonder. Is he looking for his *crisis* as his poll numbers and the stock market drop daily?
))ping((
Obama is going to give California to Mexico.
Wait and see.
“Ten bucks says al-qaeada is involved and has been so for some time.”
They are not the only players:
“Reforma reported that for at least the last ten years the Russian mafia was supplying Mexican drug traffickers with radars, automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and small submersibles in exchange for cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin. It cited a 1996 sting operation in which undercover DEA agents posing as Russian mafia members sold Carillo Fuentes operatives 300 AK-47s and ammunition in Costa Rica.”
"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum."
Reminds me of those devises that foil the GPS guidance of cruise missiles that the KGB gave Hussein. We destroyed them- with cruise missiles.
“Mullen has said Mexico could borrow from U.S. tactics in the fight against terrorism “
What tactic....leaving your borders undefended to let any and all terrorists in that have the desire?
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