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Apology Tour? Rex Tillerson Blames U.S. for Mexico’s Organized Crime Problem [VIDEO]
thepolitistick ^ | MAY 19, 2017 | MATTHEW K. BURKE

Posted on 07/30/2017 1:57:51 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Okay, it’s not exactly an apology tour because he spoke the words while on U.S. soil. But it was an apology for America by Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson while standing alongside Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso and Mexican Secretary of Government Miguel Angel Osorio Chong on Thursday during a press conference at the State Department.

Speaking about the “illicit drug trade” while holding his hand over his chest for several seconds as a symbol of admitted guilt, Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson argued that Mexico’s organized crime problem is the fault of the Unites States and that the American people need to own up to it:

“We know what we own, and we as Americans need to confront that we are the market. There is no other market for these activities –it is all coming here. But for us, Mexico wouldn’t have the trans-criminal organized crime problem and the violence that they’re suffering. And we really have to own up to that.” Granted, the U.S. buys more drugs from Mexico than any other country in the world. But to tie that to making America fully responsible for their organized drug problem and “suffering” is a huge stretch — one that we would expect to hear from an America-hating leftist.

I’m old enough to remember former President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry constantly apologizing to foreign countries for the U.S. and back then — in the good old days — it was called an “apology tour” and certainly unpatriotic.

WATCH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XQDr5uoC1Y


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drugcartels; drugmarket; drugtrade; fastandfurious; supplyanddemand; tillerson
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To: dfwgator
“See a need, fill a need.”

Which came first, the pusher or the junkie?

21 posted on 07/30/2017 2:14:13 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: volunbeer

Nieve sentimentalism. If the drugs were not available there would be no drug problem. What we own is not destroying the cartels.


22 posted on 07/30/2017 2:14:28 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Fine, start charging and jailing employers, even homeowners and families for hiring illegal aliens. Remove the lure of jobs.


23 posted on 07/30/2017 2:14:29 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“one that we would expect to hear from an America-hating leftist”

Nice try, politidipstick, but the left would never condemn the American drug user, it’s most solid base.

They blame and condemn corporations and conservatives.


24 posted on 07/30/2017 2:14:55 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MarvinStinson

I’m surprised illegal aliens from Mexico here in the USA don’t try to off as many drug abusers here for having turned their homeland into a narcoterrorist state.


25 posted on 07/30/2017 2:15:06 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: MarvinStinson

I can see how American junkies contributed to that problem.


26 posted on 07/30/2017 2:15:24 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Flag_This

I’m your Mama
I’m your Daddy
I’m that nigga
In the alley
I’m your doctor
When in need
Want some coke?
Have some weed
You know me
I’m your friend
Your main boy
Thick and thin

I’m your Pusherman
I’m your Pusherman

Silent life of crime
A man of odd circumstance
A Victim of ghetto demands
Feed me money for style
And I’ll let you trip for a while
Insecure from the past
How long can a good thing last?
Woo-hoo, no...

Got to be mellow, y’all
Gotta get mellow, now
Pusherman gettin’ mellow, y’all


27 posted on 07/30/2017 2:16:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MarvinStinson

Is tillerson a Dem? His ideas are more Dem


28 posted on 07/30/2017 2:16:41 PM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: hsmomx3

I blame the 60’s. That is when the destructive shift in our national morals was most pronounced and we suffer the same fools today who still promote it.


29 posted on 07/30/2017 2:17:24 PM PDT by volunbeer ("I will appoint a special prosecutor to look into your (Hillary) situation" - Trump - we are waiting)
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To: sagar

Trying to kill off lower class whites!


30 posted on 07/30/2017 2:17:44 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Reno89519

Didn’t sound like an apology at all.


31 posted on 07/30/2017 2:18:58 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: elpadre

American drug abusers value drugs above the country, so instead of jailing ‘em, we should expel ‘em from the country into Mexico, where they can enjoy their fake chemically-induced feelings with abandon.


32 posted on 07/30/2017 2:19:04 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: dfwgator

en español, por favor.


33 posted on 07/30/2017 2:19:24 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Vision Thing

34 posted on 07/30/2017 2:19:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Louis Foxwell

How am I sentimental about the truth? I am hardly unaware of the problems after over two decades in law enforcement. On what do you base your opinion out of curiosity?

Without the users and dealers here in the U.S. (and elsewhere) there is no market for the product. No market = no profits = no cartels.

Again, you cannot have one without the other.


35 posted on 07/30/2017 2:20:58 PM PDT by volunbeer ("I will appoint a special prosecutor to look into your (Hillary) situation" - Trump - we are waiting)
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To: dfwgator

Singapore values health and human independence over some fake fleeting chemically-induced feelings.


36 posted on 07/30/2017 2:23:35 PM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: Vision Thing

And the Chinese saw what the Opium Dens did to their country.


37 posted on 07/30/2017 2:25:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: All

Well someone is buying the drugs.


38 posted on 07/30/2017 2:29:56 PM PDT by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: spacejunkie2001
Tillerson’s a dumbass.

Perhaps but he's certainly not as ignorant as you, a continued Trump Hater..

I would ask you to explain why, but just like the Democrats you seem to echo, you'd come up with a myriad of lame excuses those same Trump Haters would offer..........

Trump's erecting a building without permits

Posted on 4/11/2016, 5:22:42 PM by spacejunkie2001

Your anti-TRUMP rants precede you, I'm surprised you're still allowed to hang around........

39 posted on 07/30/2017 2:31:03 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

get over yourself. I voted for trump just like any other level headed conservative. but if you want to defend every action, every appointment, every unfinished promise, go for it.

his cabinet is rife with liberals and back stabbers.


40 posted on 07/30/2017 2:34:26 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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