[princess leah]

If Bush were really brilliant, he would spend the next 4 years building the oil refinery business with incentives for American companies to move down to Mexico, get their oil up and running and get the business of Oil importing transferred from Saudi Arabia - THAT is how you make Mexico a RICH country and get its own people to flock back south of the border...Mexico sees Republicans as benefactors (thus voting more republican), Americans get cheaper Oil, and Hillary gets screwed (a tri-fecta win!)

[inquest]

Mexico already is a rich country, in terms of resources. It's just hopelessly corrupt. Throwing more money at them isn't going to solve that problem. It's the structural problems that need serious tending to.

[skeeter]

If Bush were really brilliant, he would spend the next 4 years building the oil refinery business

The way to do that is to privatize Pemex, which the average mexican will resist to the death apparently.

National pride & 'sovereignty' issue, doncha know.

[international american]

I like your scenario!