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We are through the looking glass.
Fine. Pull off the National Guard and send the Marines.
Maybe it’s better to just lock up the border control and charge them with harassing and murdering ILLEGALS? That might work for “compassionate” Bush.
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So now the wars come to North America. Pretty soon, the headlines will read that gun battles were here in the U.S.. Thanks Ted.
Huh? Armed invaders calls for RETREAT? GAG ME.
Our government (politicians) have lost their collective heads!!
Let's see: A major battle is raging near our border with at least one hundred killed. Rather than fortify our side against possible intrusion by armed killers, our government would rather take the chance on letting armed killers into our country.
Time to take up arms and defend ourselves.
Drug gangs?
Here they come....
Why is this story three days old (no its not porridge)? It seems with 100 people killed in a gun battle there would some news somewhere.
Send them to Washington for a confrontation with those rascals instead!
I assume the “government” mentioned in the article is the US Government. And I have to ask if the National Guardsmen at the border are armed. If so, they should defending our borders, not allowing armed thugs to conduct drive-by shootings. The US Government has been avoiding a confrontation at the border for a long time.
Well, by all means, roll out the f'n Welcome Wagon. We could use a little armed conflict along about now, ourselves.
Oh that makes sense.
If a open gun battle move North in to US territory we simply back National Guard (the people expressly empowered to protect the US homeland) away from the border because we do not wish to involve them in a conflict.
Armed conflict in defense of the border is the National Guards purpose for existing!
and yet this is what is being Repported here along the Arizona Mexico border
BREAKING NEWS: Reports of advancing hit squads “a joke made in poor taste,” Cananea mayor says; meanwhile, rumors abound on U.S. side of border
By Jonathan Clark
Herald/Review
Published on Friday, May 18, 2007
NACO, Sonora, Mexico – Reports of a heavily armed column of gunmen advancing on Cananea, Sonora, were “a joke made in poor taste,” the city’s mayor said Friday afternoon.
At shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Mayor Luis Cha Flores issued a state of alert for his city after receiving what were then described as credible reports that a convoy of rogue gunmen had entered a town 10 miles west of Cananea.
But by early afternoon, Cha Flores was calling the reports a false alarm, and urged the people of Cananea to return to their normal activities, the Hermosillo newspaper El Imparcial reported on its website.
Sonora state attorney general Abel Murrieta Gutierrez had earlier dismissed the reports as unreliable.
Meanwhile, rumors of a massive shootout in Cananea with over 100 dead began circulating on the U.S. side of the border, with local citizens calling and e-mailing the Herald/Review with second- and third-hand reports of the carnage.
Several callers said they had received their information from U.S. officials.
Border Patrol spokesman Gustavo Soto said his agency had stepped up its preparedness upon hearing rumors of the bloodshed, but backed off when the rumors could not be substantiated.
“Once we learned the reports were not valid, we regained our normal posture,” Soto said.
One caller reported that a group of over 30 armed Arizonans were headed to the border to help the Border Patrol fend off an advancing column of narco-gunmen.
Soto said he was not aware of the vigilantes, but he discouraged civilians from trying to assume the role of law enforcement.
Carlos Patron, a resident of Cananea who drove to Naco, Sonora, on business shortly after noon on Friday, said he had left a quiet city.
“Everyone is hiding in their houses because of the warnings,” Patron said, adding that he had also not seen any evidence of violence during his 40-mile drive to Naco.
A story datelined from Cananea that was posted to El Imparcial’s website at 1:15 p.m. said that “little by little, calm is returning to the streets of Cananea after reports of an armed convoy advancing toward the city turned out to be false.”
Rumors that the armed convoy was planning to make its way from Cananea to Naco had closed schools and government offices in this border town. But the city’s director of public security, Juan Alberto Bracamonte, said he had received no credible reports of violence or advancing hit squads.
“It was a false alarm,” he said.
Spokesmen for U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement, which operates the Naco Port of Entry, did not immediately return calls. Security was visibly beefed up at the port at approximately 1 p.m., but appeared to be back to normal an hour later.
The Herald/Review continues to monitor the situation in Sonora and will update this story if the situation changes.
http://www.svherald.com/articles/2007/05/18/news/doc464e127cd4528374585029.txt
“Word is that the government may pull the National Guard off the border because it fears a confrontation if people head north.”
Incredible........
Mexico today, an American city tomorrow! Thank you Bush, Kennedy and the rest of our feckless leaders! We thank you and our children thank you, they will be the recipients of your dastardly deeds for many years to come.