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Obama Repeats '90 Percent' Stat for U.S. Guns Recovered in Mexico
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Posted on 04/19/2009 6:05:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama Repeats '90 Percent' Stat for U.S. Guns Recovered in Mexico The White House stands by the president's use of the word "recovered" in describing the role firearms smuggled from the U.S. play in Mexico's drug war.

By Major Garrett

FOXNews.com

Sunday, April 19, 2009

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago -- What's the difference between "recovered" and "traceable" when it comes to firearms seized in Mexico's bloody war against drug cartels?

The White House says none.

But that's a distinction with a difference, even if President Obama used the words interchangeably last week to talk about the role firearms smuggled from the U.S. play in Mexico's stepped up fight against entrenched, well-armed drug cartels.

"This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States. More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border," the president said on the subject in his joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday:

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To: Sub-Driver

He’s getting ready for an end around. He won’t dare try to take our guns away, but he will limit production. Sure, you can own a gun, you just can’t manufacture one. Believe me, he’s setting up to go after gun manufacturers.


21 posted on 04/19/2009 6:57:53 AM PDT by oldleft
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To: Sub-Driver

So where can I get some of those full-auto rifles, grenades, and RPG’s at my local gun store? They must be keeping them in a secret room in the back. And where’s my tax cut, dammit? So far, all I have is a reduced withholding that I have to pay for next year because my wife and I both work.


22 posted on 04/19/2009 6:57:59 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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23 posted on 04/19/2009 6:59:02 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Sub-Driver

About 80% of the guns in Mexico go North into Mexico via Central America. Now, they may be American-made gun, but they were not sold out of gun shops, but through government sponsored sales to other countries.


24 posted on 04/19/2009 7:02:41 AM PDT by Polarik (("Forgeries don't validate claims -- they repudiate them"))
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To: supremedoctrine

I know I can personally thank TOTUS for my recent membership with the NRA (finally!). OMG, BHO is a complete nightmare. Close the border, don’t trample on my 2nd Amendment rights, “Bro!”


25 posted on 04/19/2009 7:03:49 AM PDT by MonicaG (Thank you to our military & veterans, with love & gratitude. XOXOXO)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama is an ass, and a nincompoop. It's been a while since we last had a nincompoop in the Oval Office.

Since very early in 1981, in fact...

26 posted on 04/19/2009 7:09:45 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Sub-Driver
"We feel good about these numbers and that's why the president uses the word recovered," McDonough said.

Who needs facts when you can use feelings

27 posted on 04/19/2009 7:15:42 AM PDT by grjr21
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To: Sub-Driver

Gungrabbers lie and deceive.


28 posted on 04/19/2009 7:17:11 AM PDT by snowsislander (NRA -- join today! 1-877-NRA-2000)
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To: Sub-Driver
To some, it might sound as if Obama is saying 90 percent of all guns captured from the cartels originated in America. But that's not what the president means, senior National Security Council Spokesman Denis McDonough told FOX News on Saturday.

Well let's just look at what littlie Barry actually said.

"More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border,"

Golly. I can certainly understand how "to some it might sound as if Obama is saying" thus and such when that is exactly what little Barry said!

However, he being a communist that calls himself a democrat I am reasonably certain that he will play the "meaning of is, is" game, which apparently he is, if that is what is means, or something like that... I guess.

Who could possibly know what they really mean when word games are the standard excuse for getting caught in a lie which was based in Orwellian newspeak, which was selected because it promoted the push to communism which is referred to by the communist democrats as "progressive" or other such nonsense or meaningless terms.

Now the really funny part of this is the commies will in almost every instance get so wound up in the morass of their own BS/lies/Orwellian newspeak that they become confused and spill the beans on their true agenda, communism.

29 posted on 04/19/2009 7:28:13 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Redbob

...And he claims he didn’t bow to that wahabbist jew killer either....


30 posted on 04/19/2009 7:29:27 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Raycpa
I also would not be surprised if the Mexican weapons were purchased using normal channels and not from gun shops across the border.

I heard you could get guns pretty cheap in Tijuana.

If you want guns, whores, or drugs, Mexico is the place to get them.

31 posted on 04/19/2009 7:42:09 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: onedoug
...And he claims he didn’t bow to that wahabbist jew killer either....

Well, if he wasn't bowing, maybe Anderson Cooper could explain what he was doing.

32 posted on 04/19/2009 7:48:35 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: onedoug
King Abdul: "It's called tea-bagging, Barry."


33 posted on 04/19/2009 7:51:55 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: screaminsunshine
Kind of like the “95%’ will get a tax cut charade. I never realized how totally ignorant the public really is. Amazing.

obama is a serial liar. He lies without hesitation to make his point. He lies when there's no reason to lie and he lies when it's easier not to. Right now most of his supporters still believe everything he says...that's going to change. Sooner or later he's going to tell a lie so big and in your face that everybody will see through it. Just a matter of time. Right now it's still all about what obama says. People give him credit for solving a problem just because he says there's a problem. We'll see how long this lasts...it can;t go on forever.

34 posted on 04/19/2009 7:52:51 AM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Legalize Mexican guns! Then, they have no need to import any!


35 posted on 04/19/2009 8:04:55 AM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Does Obama know that 90% of wetbacks come from Mexico?


36 posted on 04/19/2009 8:08:45 AM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: Raycpa
I would not be surprised if we manufacture the majority of hand guns in the world

Neither would I but that's hardly the point is it. The cartels do not stand up to the army and police with handguns. They have fully automatic AK47's and the like, which they do not buy in the US. Even if they were available here, why should they? They can get them cheaper from their socialist friends elsewhere.

All this drivel is not about the Mexican drug cartels anyway. It is about domestic guncontrol and eventual confiscation. I sincerely hope no one has forgotten that Obama is committed to disarming the citizenry, and he is right now setting the stage to do it through the back door of 'domestic security.'

37 posted on 04/19/2009 8:15:36 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Sub-Driver

That is funny coming from a liar who no knowledge of firearms has never fired a gun to keep repeating this lie.


38 posted on 04/19/2009 8:16:54 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Sub-Driver
The Devil is a liar and the father of all lies.

He has a wonderfully enthusiastic disciple in 0bama.

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerors who have allowed subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall." -Adolf Hitler

39 posted on 04/19/2009 8:37:50 AM PDT by Gritty (The right to bear arms is one more guarantee against arbitrary government tyranny-Hubert Humphrey)
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To: KeyLargo

I just emailed everyone on my email list. Including my 82 year old parents. I gave them the address for a free NRA membership. It’s at least something we can do. Thanks for the link.. appreciated!


40 posted on 04/19/2009 8:39:31 AM PDT by hot4plasma
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