Drug Money!
They're clearing the way for the drug runners.
Of course, you may wait until you see it in the Onion, if you prefer.
As for why the Mexican military would be hostile to our presence in what their president consideres to be US-occupied Mexican territory, you figure it out: either official Mexican government policy, or a Mexican military unit as busy with the transshipment of narcotics in the area as our own is.
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Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Can you say arrogance, students? or should that be contempt?
On the other hand we already know that Arab/Muslims think a student visa includes the right to fly our air planes into our buildings. Is it unreasonable that our next door neighbors expect at least equal rights.
Kissing our enemies @$$e$ seems to be sending the wrong message, perhaps we should replace our tongues with greased missles.
They're probably escorting drug runners over the border...or illegals. Either way, the border guards should return fire on anyone who takes a pot shot at them and then take pictures of the bodies and put them at every border crossing for 100 miles in either direction.
Tuor
Because they know our government will do nothing?
(Maybe they were looking for the nearest place to vote)
umm... is this for real? I looked for "The Onion" reference but can't find any. Why in the world would the Mexican military be hostile to us?
Good morning! That coffee sure smells good, don't it? Yum!
This is very real. This happens on a regular basis. the Border Patrol union has asked for something to be done but our government refuses.
Most of the time the only place you read about these invasions is on the net. The liberal elite media never mentions them.
These are acts of war. I don't care if it is soldiers from Monaco, Mexico, Canada or Red China, if foreign soldiers come into America and shoot at Americans, it is an act of war and our military should respond with so much force and violence that no country in the world will ever think of letting that happen again.
We should have a full scale counter attack underway today. It should be so violent and overwhelming so that neither Mexico or any other country even thinks about coming here again for a couple of hundred years.
The mexicans have repeatedly fired at the border patrol from south of the border using high powered rifles with scopes, that way they shoot from hundreds of yards away and nobody knows who did it. That's happened a bunch. The border patrol responded by not going to certain locations because it was dangerous.
So, this incident is really nothing new. It seems as though they're trying to intimidate the border patrol out of certain locations at certain times. This is completely normal. It is also completely normal for the americans to back down and let the drugs in.
Back in '96 when it first started happening the clinton admin even refused to increase the size of the border patrol even after congress put it in the budget for him to do so, thus requiring him to do it by law, he still refused, that's very unusual, but he got away with it for a while.
Border patrol agents and customs inspectors have each testified in court that they have been ordered by their superiors to simply let big trucks in knowing full well it was full of drugs.
What, were you born yesterday? The corruption, the intimidation is completely normal.
The cia issued 2 press releases, 1 in late '98 and 1 in early '99 saying that they'd been involved in smuggling drugs into the united statets since 1980. this is the type of a story that the media simply won't report. Why do you think the frustratted border patrol agent is on the phone to his congressman. He keeps it up and he'll be fired or killed.
In 1993 the US Congress and the White House agreed behind closed doors to cut funding immediately to the drug enforcement agency by 50%. It was against the previously approved budget to do so, but they did it without any vote even. The leaders of congress simply agreed with clinton and it was done. Within 4 weeks of clinton coming into office 50% of the 468 undercover drug agents who were actively trying to stop drugs from coming into our country were let go. They were pulled from their assignments in the field and fired. By 1996 drug use in america doubled over 1992 levels according to federal stats.
So, of course the mexicans fired on our people to intimidate them, our people got mad and were told by their superiors to back down so that the drugs can come in. This is completely normal.
In 1996 the congress restored funding to DEA completely, but clinton responded simply by re-deploying the agency so that 50% of its resources were spent trying to track drug smugglers inside the US rather than keeping them out. OF course we all know that was done purposely to sabotage the drug enforcement agency's effectiveness.
Neither the congress, nor bush, nor the media are even willing to talk about or think about this corruption that stares us in the face. Don't think it's not happening now because clinton is gone. Clinton was here because the corruption is so strong. If bush were to try to get rid of it, then the corruption would get rid of bush.