GOP wit Nads. Are you kidding me?
Mexico has never been any kind of ally of the US. They consistently vote against us and with Iran, etc. at the UN.
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Nevertheless, Mexico voted against the United States 62 percent of the time.
www.heritage.org/.../US-Foreign-Aid-and-United-Nations-Voting-Records
BUT, sometimes we bribe them to vote with us...
[snip]Under the same programme, Mexico received about 10 million dollars last year and 12 million dollars this year. It also received 28.2 million dollars in U.S. Economic Support Funds (ESF).(this was years ago, Mexico gets billions now)
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/167/35053.html
How Mexico felt about Iraq: [snip]President Vicente Fox heavily criticized the war when it started and Mexican diplomats described their conversations with U.S. officials as hostile in tone and that Washington was demonstrating little concern for the constraints of the Mexican government whose people were overwhelmingly opposed to the war with Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_and_the_Iraq_War