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U.S. Launches Program to Fly Illegal Mexicans Home
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | Jun 29, 2004 | Deborah Charles

Posted on 06/29/2004 4:41:36 PM PDT by Max Combined

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (news - web sites) will start flying some illegal Mexican migrants to their hometowns next month as part of a controversial program aimed at reducing illegal immigration.

Homeland Security undersecretary Asa Hutchinson said on Tuesday that the U.S. and Mexican governments had reached an agreement for a pilot program to repatriate illegals found in the Arizona-Sonoran desert region.

When I read WFB's quote, I knew we "neocons" were going to have to endure some gloating. I don't agree with his assessment. And it does not add up to Buckley agreeing with everyone who opposed the war originally. Some people did not believe Saddam was a threat. I do not think that assessment was accurate even now in retrospect. But there were fabrications by the likes of Chalabhi that added to the threat assessment. All this mess has cost the USA some political capital. That matters.

All this said, we could assume that 20-20 hindsight might have resulted in different actions. We must even assume that this hindsight would result in more effective actions. What would they have been? Maybe, we would have used military threats and intense diplomacy to go direct to the terror masters and toppled the mullahs in Iran. Saddam would then have wilted under pressure from a pro-Western democratic Iran.

I'm just spittin' cheese here.