I can't wait to see what the pachucas do with a Blackhawk.
Posted on 03/26/2009 6:12:31 AM PDT by Schnucki
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged $80 million (£55m) to Mexico to acquire Blackhawk helicopters to fight drug gangs threatening the country's stability.
"I'm pleased to announce that the Obama administration working closely with Congress intends to provide more than 80 million dollars in urgently needed funding for Mexican law enforcement," she said.
"These aircraft will help Mexican police respond aggressively and successfully to the threats coming from the cartels," Mrs Clinton said.
The announcement came as she admitted that America's "insatiable demand" for illegal drugs is to blame for much of the violence engulfing Mexico.
The US secretary of state also acknowledged America's "inability" to stop weapons being smuggled across the border from the US and being used by the drug cartels in a bloody turf war.
Mrs Clinton made her candid remarks as she flew to Mexico City for a two-day visit where she will discuss US plans to ramp up border security with President Felipe Calderón.
"Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians," she said during her flight to Mexico City.
"I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility."
She said US efforts to ban drugs such as cocaine and heroine had clearly not worked and it was unfair to blame Mexico for its drug cartel problem.
Although Barack Obama has pledged to devote an additional 360 federal agents to border security, the US Congress this month trimmed the amount of drug aid money it will set aside this fiscal year to $300 million from $400 million last year.
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Didn’t Pres. Bush give them BILLIONS last year to fight violence? What happened to that? A lot of the guns the Mexican government was given by the U.S., including .50 caliber weapons, have turned up in the drug cartels’ hands. I suppose they’ll be cruising the skies in helicopters now.
Re-institute the Assault Blackhawk Ban!!
WTF? Has Mexico run out of oil and the money their illegals send home every week?
shezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...11/2010 & 11/2012 won't come soon enough for me!!!
I’m in no way in favor of doing this but if it comes down to it......
Instead of sending money to BUY the Helos why can’t we just send ACTUAL Helos? At least that way, there’s no money lost in the transaction.
A few .50 rounds, a couple of cases of MREs and 3 days pay for a few 2-man NG/AR/USMCR sniper teams are a lot cheaper than Blackhawks.
hOPE.cHANGE.
I can't wait to see what the pachucas do with a Blackhawk.
We might as well just cut out the middleman and sell directly to the cartels.
Don’t we have enough of a welfare load here?
As soon as she blamed us for mexicos' problems, that she would write a big check.
Oh well its only money we can just print some more.
I wonder if they will use the helicopters to patrol their northern border or to help Close down their southern border?
>>”US buys Mexico helicopters...”<<
Who knew Mexico manufactures helicopters, let alone the drug fighting type??
You didn't know Mexico manufactures helicoptors.
Is this b1tch for real?
LOL - but where’s his sombrero?
just make it legal and take the profit out and add a tax to it
Hell lets do the same with rape murder and terrorism too. We can all live in the land of candy canes and unicorns.
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