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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:

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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1 posted on 04/19/2009 6:05:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Hmm, here’s a novel idea. Secure the border!


2 posted on 04/19/2009 6:08:15 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: Sub-Driver
If anyone were in doubt about the idea that Obama was a simple case of EEO and Affirmative Action gone wild, the fact he seems unable to understand the difference between “recovered” and “traceable” should be persuasive of the fact.
3 posted on 04/19/2009 6:10:28 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Sub-Driver

Kind of like the “95%’ will get a tax cut charade. I never realized how totally ignorant the public really is. Amazing.


4 posted on 04/19/2009 6:10:44 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Short answer: Commies Lie!

He is a Lying Kenyan Commie who sleeps in the White House.


5 posted on 04/19/2009 6:11:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Sub-Driver

Repeat a lie often enough...


6 posted on 04/19/2009 6:13:36 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: Sub-Driver

%90 is a load of BS. Orwellian lies, as authentic as the Orwellian pet dog story.


7 posted on 04/19/2009 6:14:22 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed. -Jefferson)
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To: Texas Fossil

And it is not going to improve with talk alone. Until WE THE PEOPLE get that sand goon by the short hairs and make him listen, it is only going to get worse. Until then he is going to continue to destroy the country and enslave us.


8 posted on 04/19/2009 6:14:32 AM PDT by Concho (01-20-2009--The beginning of an ERROR)
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To: Sub-Driver

This puppy is so out of his depth that he ran south to be with his commie buddies but finds himself caving to a band of chihuahuas.
Time to replace the TOTUS!


9 posted on 04/19/2009 6:17:52 AM PDT by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: Sub-Driver

When the facts don’t fit your agenda, change the facts and repeat them as needed.


10 posted on 04/19/2009 6:25:04 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama is a damned liar. Why am I not amazed?

He learned at the knee of communist traitors like Alinsky and Ayers.


11 posted on 04/19/2009 6:29:45 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" will be ready the first week of May.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Barry LIES, people DIE.

Impeach Obama for "Lying To The American People"
(revised moonbat meme)

12 posted on 04/19/2009 6:32:41 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Sub-Driver

I am waiting for the day when the headline reads

OBAMA TELLS THE TRUTH


13 posted on 04/19/2009 6:34:12 AM PDT by Carley (MOANING IN AMERIKA)
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To: Sub-Driver

First president in US history (possible exception Jimmah Cartah) who goes out of his way to make his country look bad.


14 posted on 04/19/2009 6:35:24 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Worse than we could have imagined.)
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To: Sub-Driver

How many weapon factories does Mexico have? I would not be surprised if we manufacture the majority of hand guns in the world. I also would not be surprised if the Mexican weapons were purchased using normal channels and not from gun shops across the border.


15 posted on 04/19/2009 6:41:09 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama is the ultimate lie. see tagline.


16 posted on 04/19/2009 6:41:57 AM PDT by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: screaminsunshine

I would be willing to bet that 90% of the guns captured in Mexico are NOT smuggled from America.

Odooma’s propaganda ministry is racheting up the lies.
Odooma says “we must destroy America”. Change sucks.


17 posted on 04/19/2009 6:46:04 AM PDT by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think that what is REALLY going on here is that Obama is crafting a two pronged approach where Calderon and himself play useful idiots to each other, and on behalf of each other’s purposes. Looking for a new rationale and justification for once again making SUPERURGENT the need to clamp down on ALL THINGS GUN in the USA????? Tell your people that guns “FROM THE USA” are responsible for the out of control drug wars in Mexico.Invite the President of Mexico to say the same thing, and also to blame us for using most of the drugs that “necessitates” traffickers in drugs.At the same time, totally ignore the fact that if this is the case, it would all be over in no time if the real priority would be CLOSING THE BORDERS NOW. In this way you can go after whatever you want to relating to guns in the USA, in many cases whatever remaining resisters there are (think Randy Weaver), who are going to resist you and your intimidation just out of general principles.In other words, they intend to reawaken if not create a new population like the vague ,unsubstantiated ones they identified in the notorious DHS document.In this way you can pretend to be to carrying on your own War on Drugs, when it’s real purpose is going to be confiscation of guns, and new gun laws, actively enforced. This sounds like a wet dream for Holder. If this transpires the way I think it will, they are promulgating yet another new civil war, this one on a new front.
It’s not gonna be so easy this time for them, as it’s been for other Administrations. TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE TOO ANGRY AT TOO MANY OTHER THINGS<>
This Administration is making a fatal mistake in piling too many things on the plate at the same time, and then when we resist eating it, pushing our collective faces in the plate.Every issue is promoted as being of utter urgency, and also solvable if only we take this step or that step NOW! Not to mention DO IT ON A GLOBAL SCALE.
What Obama slickly refers to under common rubrics like “working together” and “our common purpose”.
This is PRECISELY the nature and new look of how they
have chosen to overreach,and since they’re basically cynical and dishonest to begin with, THIS
will be their undoing.


18 posted on 04/19/2009 6:46:21 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("No symbols where none intended"--Beckett)
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To: Sub-Driver
The article is a good one, and folks should memorize this fact:

Less than 18% of guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico during 2007-2008 were traced to the US.

19 posted on 04/19/2009 6:56:44 AM PDT by Darwin Fish
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To: Darwin Fish
5114 out of 29,000 were traced to the US.
20 posted on 04/19/2009 6:57:43 AM PDT by Darwin Fish
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