Posted on 03/14/2010 9:45:58 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is "outraged" by the murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico of three people connected with the U.S. consulate there, a White House official said on Sunday.
"In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice," White House National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said in a statement.
A consulate employee and her husband, both U.S. citizens, were killed along with the husband of another employee who is a Mexican citizen, the statement said.
"The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news," Hammer said, adding that Obama "shares in the outrage of the Mexican people at the murders of thousands in Ciudad Juarez and elsewhere in Mexico.
Mexico's drug war has killed some 18,600 people,
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Has any President ever been OUTRAGED more than this manly man?
Yada, yada, yada. He doesn’t want to talk about it as in let’s avoid the subject so we can slip it through.
Meanwhile...
Run for the border!
The drug taking Americans and the illegality of those drugs.
Take away either factor and there’s no money to be made and so no fighting over the proceeds.
Of course he is....18,600 possible rat voters have been killed!
“We have to resolve the larger question, which is the status of undocumented workers in this country,” Axelrod said.
HUH ? Their status is ILLEGAL!
I wonder, does oevil has a special room where he goes to be “outraged” ... a special pair of “outrage pants” he puts on ... a cap that reads “Outrage R Us” across the front?
Yeah I know, that was sarcasm.
Mike Hammer? Am I the only one old enough to remember Mike Hammer? Is this fiction?
Mike Hammer hated commies. No way he speaks for the 0.
““We have to resolve the larger question, which is the status of undocumented workers in this country,” Axelrod said.
HUH ? Their status is ILLEGAL!”
Here’s another line that is just nutty from a WH spokesman, from a Fox report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/14/associated-consulate-mexico-murdered/
“”This is a responsibility we must shoulder together, particularly in border communities where strong bonds of history, culture, and common interest bind the Mexican and the American people closely together,” Hammer said.
Common interest??? Mexico takes, we give.
Thanks Mexico! Another dead American ping!
even in death, govt workers get the “outrage” while the silly peasants who get killed everyday on the Mexican border are just forgotten..
Americans should not go to Mexico...period...oh sure, I know we have all those expats living in their gated communities....everything is just great if you ignore the nearly 3000 murders in the last year alone along the border..
Whaddya gonna do about it commie, let a few million more of them traipse across the border?
Counter-question: Has there ever been a muslim US president before?
Sure, he’s so outraged that he will be promoting any mexican to cross the border without a second look. That way, they can import to the US more murderous thugs from the cartels.
Profits from the Mexican drug trade are estimated at about $35 billion a year. And since the cartels spend half to two-thirds of their income on bribery, that would be around $20 billion going into the pockets of police officers, army generals, judges, prosecutors and politicians. Last fall, Mexico’s attorney general announced that his former top drug enforcer, chief prosecutor Noe Ramirez Mandujano, was getting $450,000 a month under the table from the Sinaloa cartel. The cartel can of course afford to be generous — Sinaloa chief Joaquin GuzmA!n recently made the Forbes List of Billionaires.
The depth of GuzmA!n’s penetration into the United States was revealed a few weeks ago, when the DEA proudly announced hundreds of arrests all over the country in a major operation against the “dangerously powerful” Sinaloa cartel. One jarring detail was the admission that Mexican cartels are now operating in 230 cities inside the United States.
This disaster has been slowly unfolding since the early 1980s, when Vice President George H.W. Bush shut down the Caribbean cocaine pipeline between Colombia and Miami. The Colombians switched to the land route and began hiring Mexicans to deliver the goods across the U.S. border. But when the Mexicans got a glimpse of the truckloads of cash headed south, they decided that they didn’t need the Colombians at all. Today the Mexican cartels are full-service commercial organizations with their own suppliers, refineries and a distribution network that covers all of North America.
As we awaken to the threat spilling over our southern border, the reactions are predictable. In addition to walling off the border, Congress wants to send helicopters, military hardware and unmanned reconnaissance drones into the fray — and it wants the Pentagon to train Mexican troops in counterinsurgency tactics.
Our anti-drug warriors have apparently learned nothing from the past two decades. A few years ago we trained several units of the Mexican army in counterinsurgency warfare. They studied their lessons, then promptly deserted to form the Zetas, a thoroughly professional narco hit squad for the Gulf cartel, which offered considerably better pay. Over the past eight years, the Mexican army has had more than 100,000 deserters.
The president of Mexico rightly points out that U.S. policy is at the root of this nightmare. Not only did we invent the war on drugs, but we are the primary consumers.
The obvious solution is cutting the demand for drugs in the United States. Clearly, it would be the death of the cartels if we could simply dry up the market. Unfortunately, every effort to do this has met with resounding failure. But now that the Roaring ‘00s have hit the Crash of ‘09, the money has vanished once again, and we can no longer ignore the collateral damage of Prohibition II.
Here is a glimpse of what lies ahead if we fail to end our second attempt to control the personal habits of private citizens. Listen to Enrique Gomez Hurtado, a former high court judge from Colombia who still has shrapnel in his leg from a bomb sent to kill him by the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar. In 1993, his country was a free-fire zone not unlike Mexico today, and Gomez issued this chilling — and prescient — warning to an international drug policy conference in Baltimore:
“The income of the drug barons is greater than the American defense budget. With this financial power they can suborn the institutions of the State, and if the State resists . . . they can purchase the firepower to outgun it. We are threatened with a return to the Dark Ages.”
What was learned by the Cartels in Miami was that anyone, and I mean anyone can be bought. People need not be bought by money...all you have to do is find out their desires and fears and you know their price. Enough money can “arrange” possibilities and in some cases one does not ever even realize he has been bought.
And the Asian Cartels are the most violent and extreme of them all worse even then the Mexican Cartels...Look at the changing policies toward the U.S. drug war in Peru. Other countries are trying to move away from the militant approach to the problem. Mexico has even relaxed its domestic drug laws
No...with the drug war now on our overland border the drugs and violence will continue to come with it and Law Enforcement will be facing a well paid, well trained horde of hit squads and bribers. They will get the drug war they want. But I’ll tell you this...The U.S. public will never stand for it...and at this point reputable polls show that over 50% of Americans believe that the main cause of the drug war(cannabis)shouldn’t even be illegal.
I salute all the brave Columbian Judges and cops who survived the U.S. drug war in their country. Many of whom retired to Malibu, Palm Beach and Hilton Head.
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