[cgbg]

who is being paid off, as 700 plus TONS of dope crosses the Mexican border each year.

You can be sure that dirty politicians on _both_ sides of the border are getting their cut.

Mena is the real deal. Without it nobody outside of Arkansas would ever have heard of the Clintons.

My late grandfather said it best about the politicians: they are all crooks.

He wasn't making idle chatter, either. He paid them bribes to get favors needed for his business.

[penowa]

"He paid them bribes to get favors needed for his business."

My father was in a business that bid on gov't contracts and when, as a kid, I saw the cash changing hands as "Christmas gifts, etc.," and questioned my dad as to the local Congressman being a crook, my dad said, "Yes, but he's OUR crook."