Posted on 04/06/2011 5:12:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Using unusually blunt language, FBI Director Robert Mueller told US legislators on Capitol Hill Wednesday that there is an "unprecedented" level of violence in Mexico linked to the country's drug wars.
"I would not call it a full-scale war," Mueller told members of the House of Representatives as he discussed his agency's 2012 budget.
"I would say there are full-scale warring factions that utilize homicide as a mechanism of retaliation, staking out one's turf, retribution, that have contributed substantially to the number of deaths in Mexico," Mueller said.
There have been some 35,000 homicides in the past four years, Mueller said.
"I think it's fair to say that it's unprecedented," he said. "The last couple of years, I think, have been particularly bad."
The frank words are uncommon for a senior US official: the US ambassador to Mexico resigned in March after Mexican President Felipe Calderon said diplomatic cables written by the envoy -- in which he depicted the Mexican military leadership as unprepared for the war on drugs -- damaged bilateral ties.
And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in September had to back off of comments that the Mexican drug cartels "are showing more and more indices of insurgencies," and that the country is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago, when the narcotraffickers controlled certain parts of the country."
Even though the Mexican military and police "have undertaken substantial efforts" to address the violence, "it's certainly not under control at this point," Mueller said.
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We need ‘em here to “do the work Americans won’t do”, notwithstanding that we have plenty of Americans out of work.
Big Sis said everything along the border was safe....so safe.
If we would just legalize it, it would all just go away. (- A slobbering Libertarian)
I think this report is 5 years too late. Next we will hear the FBI say Islamic Terrorist pose a grave threat to America.
So the ATF is helpin the fibbies snag a bigger slice o pie by arming the cartels?
“FBI Director Robert Mueller told US legislators on Capitol Hill Wednesday that there is an “unprecedented” level of violence in Mexico...”
Wow! The moron is a genuis. Did he consult his Magic 8 ball or ask his dog?
This is not your daddy’s FBI.
I agree, legalizing marijuana won’t solve much other than making less criminals out of marijuana users (and they would probably get a better product if it was legalized).
The problem is the hard shit isn’t coming “across” the border. Its coming underneath in tunnels and through cartel subs.
Marijuana smuggling by land is just low level fodder the cartel heads allow the underlings to get away with, for a slice of course.
Mexico is burning. Meanwhile, the White House orchestra plays on.
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If you consider what obama is doing in the rest of the world , the idea that he might be arming the the cartel is not so farfetched! just a matter of time before we start proving air support for the poor cartel freedom fighters against their evil government.
Is it “historic” and “unexpected” too? The are the
standard buzzwords with Obama’s bunch.
There is an unprecedented level of violence committed by Mexicans on Americans right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.
Mexicans have taken over and destroyed a great many towns in the U.S., and are now working on the cities. And our politicians all but encourage them.
The oBowMa regime is tirelessly studying the political angles in Mexico, to see if helping one side or the other would further weaken the USA, or strengthen world terrorism and/or marxism.
Dude, I am with you. Up until 1914, any fool could get any drug they wanted. Many killed themselves rather quickly. The justification behind the 1914 drug laws was that black men were getting high on cocaine and raping white women (totally untrue). The REAL reason that the laws were passes was so that southern Rats could have a new reason to imprison black men on their prison plantations.
No end in sight, is there.
You are absolutely right BoT.
Grass, A Marijuana History
Part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvUgJEhQ5cY
Posted for anyone who wants to know the facts.
It really is amazing what we allow the government to get away with, eh?
I see Operation Gun Walker is a great success.
So when do they declare it to be a “full scale war?”
When one side or the other starts using tube artillery?
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