Related (cough): Drug War a Cover For North American Union
Hillary Clinton Calls For Decriminalizing Drugs
Of course, Bush was a coker and drinker, so he was even quicker than Obama.
These guys sure stay on the move, huh? I thought we were getting change; can't this guy hang iout a bit?
"Obama, in Mexico, pledges to target drug trade; Joins Calderon backing efforts on energy, too" by Peter Nicholas and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times | April 17, 2009
MEXICO CITY - In his first official trip to Mexico, President Obama said he would push for US ratification of a treaty designed to lessen the flow of weapons to drug cartels and announced that the countries would work together on a host of issues, including the environment and energy....
The presidents also announced the formation of the US-Mexico Bilateral Framework on Clean Energy and Climate Change, a mechanism to stimulate political and technical cooperation. And they said they would work together on other issues, including immigration....
Another piece of your NAU puzzle in place, folks.
Related: Obama's Amnesty
Obama and Calderon met after Obama arrived here on the first leg of his Latin America debut. He was to spend less than 24 hours in Mexico before continuing today to Trinidad and Tobago for the fifth Summit of the Americas, a three-day meeting of the hemisphere's 34 elected heads of state and government.
The Obama administration already had said it would increase enforcement of existing laws to try to stop the smuggling of weapons across the border. Yesterday's announcement was a further step in the battle against the cartels. At the formal welcoming ceremony, Calderon called for a new era of understanding and cooperation.
"We are, we can, and we should be friends, partners, and allies," Calderon said. "Mr. President, let's start a . . . new era in which we work together to make our border an example of productivity and security . . . a new era in which the fight against organized crime is waged completely as a shared responsibility, a battle waged by both Mexicans and Americans and won as allies."
I say put a wall up. Not because I want to be a jerk, but we are always told that won't work when it does for China and Israel, so why not here?
Again, I'm not going to argue the real reason that thing is wide-open and why anymore, but it sure is/was odd in this age of 'terrorists."
In a park on the grounds of Los Pinos, Mexico's equivalent of the White House, a podium was set up at the foot of a large statue of Francisco I. Madero, Mexico's president in the early 20th century. Children wearing school uniforms and holding small Mexican and American flags sat in risers on the park's perimeter, chattering excitedly before the ceremony. Young soldiers in dress uniforms and hats faced the main stage. American and Mexican flags hung from long poles that formed a semicircle at the edge of the park.
Yeah, yeah, it was a great photo-op. What else you got, MSM?
Obama praised Mexico and Calderon for efforts to fight the drug cartels. "At a time when the Mexican government has so courageously taken on the drug cartels that have plagued both sides of the border, it is absolutely critical that the United States join as a full partner with this issue," Obama said.
CIA being one of the biggest dope peddlers doesn't help, but....
Before Obama spoke, the Mexican military announced that 15 gunmen and one soldier were killed in a shootout in the state of Guerrero. Officials said the soldiers came under fire from a convoy of gunmen Wednesday while patrolling a drug-trafficking area.
The timing on those things is always impeccable, isn'y t it?
Drug-trafficking organizations have unleashed a wave of violence that has claimed more than 10,000 lives in just over two years and could threaten Calderon's ability to govern. Calderon repeatedly has called on the United States to do more to stop the flow of weapons and drug money and to curb the demand for the tons of cocaine and marijuana that Mexican traffickers send north....
The solution is staring them in the face but they won't see it: legalize and tax it.
Of course, that takes black-budget, black-profits out of it as well as the organized crime syndicates and the authorities interest in milking both sides of that cow -- which is why such a common sense solution can't take hold in insane AmeriKa.
Obama also has pledged to tackle comprehensive immigration reform, a particularly sensitive issue during times of economic downturn.
Even though like 90% of the public is opposed to that whole thing.
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Not the change I was hoping for, dude (cough, cough).
