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Perry open to sending US troops to Mexico
Yahoo News (AP) ^ | 10/1/2011 | STEVE PEOPLES

Posted on 10/01/2011 9:59:16 PM PDT by South40

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Saturday that he is open to sending American troops to Mexico to help battle drug cartels.

((snip))

Mexico's government, however, has been opposed to foreign forces in its territory.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borderwars; drugwars; mexico; perry
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1 posted on 10/01/2011 9:59:17 PM PDT by South40
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To: South40

Well, Obama already sent the weapons...


2 posted on 10/01/2011 10:00:54 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here's your damn Change!)
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To: org.whodat; cripplecreek; TADSLOS; BobL; raybbr; truthfreedom; CowboyJay; Sea Parrot; ...
Perry is 'open to sending US troops to Mexico'.

Does he want to invade a sovereign nation?

3 posted on 10/01/2011 10:00:54 PM PDT by South40 (2012 matchup.... CAIN vs UNABLE?)
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To: Gene Eric

lol! Good one.


4 posted on 10/01/2011 10:01:33 PM PDT by South40 (2012 matchup.... CAIN vs UNABLE?)
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To: South40

Mexico needs an enema. If you think the number of people crossing our border is bad now, it’s only going to get worse until that cesspool of a country is cleaned up, and the Mexicans aren’t going to do it themselves.


5 posted on 10/01/2011 10:04:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: South40

So I should vote for Palin since she is in and doing so well in the polls. Swell.


6 posted on 10/01/2011 10:08:05 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: dfwgator
My neighbors are jackasses who get a visit from the sheriff's department at least once a month. That doesn't mean I should enter their home, weapons blazing, and try to force them to clean up their act.

Messico is a cesspool. But it's not the job of the American military to clean it up.

7 posted on 10/01/2011 10:10:36 PM PDT by South40 (2012 matchup.... CAIN vs UNABLE?)
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To: South40

Perry is insane.


8 posted on 10/01/2011 10:12:07 PM PDT by donna (This is what happens when America is no longer a Christian nation.)
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To: Lazlo in PA
So I should vote for Palin since she is in and doing so well in the polls. Swell.

I wasn't aware Palin was running.

9 posted on 10/01/2011 10:12:21 PM PDT by South40 (2012 matchup.... CAIN vs UNABLE?)
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To: South40
Does he want to invade a sovereign nation?

It's Mexico. We've sent bi-planes, the army, arty, and Civil War rations down there before. About 100 years ago.

Maybe it's time again. (without the wormy Civil War rations)

And if a sovereign nation doesn't control their people, like Pancho Villa.... we need to put that stuff down.

Again.

This isn't the first time. There is precedent.

Just because they beat France once, doesn't mean we're at risk. We just need to shut things down, down there. Kill some trouble makers.

/johnny

10 posted on 10/01/2011 10:12:50 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: donna
Perry is insane.

Yes, I believe he is. Maybe that's what so many find appealing about him. It's certainly not because he is a conservative.

11 posted on 10/01/2011 10:13:37 PM PDT by South40 (2012 matchup.... CAIN vs UNABLE?)
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To: South40

Either we place troops to secure our own border or we invade Mexico to make it ours. Anything else is poltics piad for with the blood of our warriors.


12 posted on 10/01/2011 10:14:09 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: South40

Now that’s straight thinking.


13 posted on 10/01/2011 10:16:05 PM PDT by This Just In
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To: Gene Eric

ROFL good one!


14 posted on 10/01/2011 10:17:15 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
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To: South40

Let’s rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ&ob=av2n

Vote Santorum. He is going to do it. I just feel it.


15 posted on 10/01/2011 10:18:15 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: South40

Sending U.S. military forces into Mexico would be an essential act of war. The government of Mexico would never agree to it.

The United States military will not operate in Mexico short of a full-on invasion. There’s no other way. And, at some point , that may be the only option left but be ready to assume the nation of Mexico in the process.

This is Perry trying to assuage the friction of his “heartless” statement in the debate. That is all. No seriousness or genuine forethought to it.


16 posted on 10/01/2011 10:18:46 PM PDT by JoenTX (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: JRandomFreeper

American forces have crossed our southern border before. But if Mexico does not want our help in trying to solve its rampant crime problem we have no right to force it upon them.


17 posted on 10/01/2011 10:19:03 PM PDT by South40 (2012 matchup.... CAIN vs UNABLE?)
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To: South40

My understanding is only if they request it.

Special Forces could get the Colombian Mafias on the run in Mexico, they have nowhere to go and could be cornered.

The CIA has a full picture of who is who and the network of the narco terrorists in every Mexican State.

Because the Mexican Federal Government can only govern effectively Mexico City (24 million people), US Special Forces could be especially effective in all other states where the narcos control.

The narcos control the political strings in the states outside Mexico City, they have bought the politicians there or have neutered them through a series of murders and other terrorist acts.

So most enforcement actions by local law enforcement is minimal because the Chiefs of Police are neutered or paid off by the narcos. The Mexican federal government has sent their own special forces from Mexico City to other states to fight narcos with some success but the action falls far short of victory.

It is said that Mexico City is off limits to the narcos because that is where the heads of the narco families live, where their children go to school.

But US Special Forces equipped with real time CIA intelligence could exterminate the upper ranks of all the narco families in a matter of weeks.

The problem is the Mexican political establishment is not ready to permit US Special Forces to operate inside their jurisdiction unless it is so secret that no one would know they were ever there.


18 posted on 10/01/2011 10:21:05 PM PDT by Hostage (The revolution needs a spark. The Constitution is dead.)
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To: South40
Yes, I believe he is. Maybe that's what so many find appealing about him.

Actually, Gov. Goodhair isn't very 'eccentric'. And we do like eccentric down here for our politicians. Ref Kinky Freedman. Now that man is my kind of crazy.

Except he's a leftist.

Nope... We do need to use the US Army again, with mules and horses and planes and arty and missles to run right back down to Mexico City and put a stop to the bull-crap.

I'm not calling for nukes, but 155s would be appropriate.

We're being invaded. People are being killed. We're a nation. We can protect our borders, and even run across them to put down the animals that need that.

We've done it before. I say we do it again.

After we finish with Mexico, maybe we can talk about fixing Oklahoma.

/johnny

19 posted on 10/01/2011 10:21:16 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: South40

A wall is bad, cutting off the benefits is a no go, but INVADING a foreign country is fine??

wow. This guy has got to go.


20 posted on 10/01/2011 10:21:16 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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