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2019-11-05 Caribbean-Latin America
'You need an army to defeat an army': President Trump wages WAR on Mexican drug cartels to 'wipeout monsters' after three American Mormon mothers and six of their children are EXECUTED and their bodies left in burned out SUVs
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Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-05 09:31|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top
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#1 Any comments from Mitt Romney?
Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-05 09:44||   2019-11-05 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Likely only 1. Something along the lines of "President Trump is a fascist dictator who has offered a Quid Pro Quo to Mexico." We'll send aid if you help stop the cartels" Clearly an impeachable offense."
Posted by Warthog 2019-11-05 10:01||   2019-11-05 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Release the drones!
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-11-05 10:10||   2019-11-05 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 'We declared war, and it didn't work,' Lopez Obrador said at a press conference, referring to the policies of previous administrations.'That is not an option.'

Ok, jefe. But a punitive expedition is definitely an option for us.

Agreed that your narco-state is a lost cause and that yourself are a pathetically weak leader, a de facto hostage to the cartels. But don't expect us to sit by and not seek to punish those who slaughtered an American family--burned them
alive-- just a few hundred miles away from our territory.

As a young man, Trump said of his real estate practices, "I play fair. But if you screw me, I screw back--in spades."
Posted by Lex 2019-11-05 10:10||   2019-11-05 10:10|| Front Page Top

#5 'We declared war, and it didn't work,' Lopez Obrador said at a press conference, referring to the policies of previous administrations.'That is not an option.'

Difference is: Trump is quite likely to wage war. Previous Administrations simply had a photo-op.
Posted by CrazyFool 2019-11-05 10:13||   2019-11-05 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Paging General Pershing, General John Pershing...
Posted by Glenmore 2019-11-05 10:26||   2019-11-05 10:26|| Front Page Top

#7 odd - can't post comments on this article, though others OK
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-05 10:34||   2019-11-05 10:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Black Jack, indeed.

Don't burn our citizens to death and expect us not to make you pay a heavy price for it.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-05 10:36||   2019-11-05 10:36|| Front Page Top

#9 I've said for years we need to wage real war on the Cartels. Including if you take cartel money, you eat a Hellfire.

Spray the drug fields with persistent nerve agents.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-11-05 10:46||   2019-11-05 10:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Mercutio - probably a banned word?
Posted by Frank G 2019-11-05 11:08||   2019-11-05 11:08|| Front Page Top

#11 I can already hear the Human Rights folks beating their breasts at the immense collateral from this one.

"Senor Perfidio was a generous man. His family was struck by an American drone. Very sad."

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-05 11:08||   2019-11-05 11:08|| Front Page Top

#12 They will do nothing because the duffel bags and briefcases of money that fuel Washington and useless elections of thousands of petty tyrant sadams and Castros would be ruined,
Posted by Eohippus Glusorong3318 2019-11-05 11:11||   2019-11-05 11:11|| Front Page Top

#13 Article is fvcking horrid.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-11-05 11:27||   2019-11-05 11:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Very right. If Trump does want to make the bureaucrats do something decisive, I wouldn't put it past them to consider assassination even. The drug business must go on. To many, it's their mainstay.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-05 11:28||   2019-11-05 11:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Intriguing.
One former member [of the Mormon Messican colony] isGeorge Romney, father of 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was born in 1907 in Colonia Dublan in Chihuahua state.
Posted by Bobby 2019-11-05 11:42||   2019-11-05 11:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Speak up, Pierre Delecto. Defend your father and your fellow LDSaints. If you have any honor at all.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-05 11:46||   2019-11-05 11:46|| Front Page Top

#17 Frank - tested with B****J*** & it didn't post
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-05 12:42||   2019-11-05 12:42|| Front Page Top

#18 But Black Jack posts
Posted by Mercutio 2019-11-05 12:44||   2019-11-05 12:44|| Front Page Top

#19 What was it Boob Jobs ?
Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-05 12:49||   2019-11-05 12:49|| Front Page Top

#20 ButtaJigg?
Posted by Lex 2019-11-05 12:55||   2019-11-05 12:55|| Front Page Top

#21 Chickenshit Pierre speaks...

He's very, very sad but not sad enough to secure the border. Gotta wonder how much cartel money makes its way into his pockets.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-05 12:57||   2019-11-05 12:57|| Front Page Top

#22 Apparently, they weren't able to find a sanctuary city.
Posted by Matt 2019-11-05 13:05||   2019-11-05 13:05|| Front Page Top

#23 ^ (Tragicomic) Snark o' the Day
Posted by Lex 2019-11-05 13:22||   2019-11-05 13:22|| Front Page Top

#24 The banking laundering practices in the U.S. ought to be looked into.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-05 13:57||   2019-11-05 13:57|| Front Page Top

#25 There are Mexicans who live in US states who go to Mexico on secret missions against the Cartels for their government, then return to the safety of the US where they raise their families without fear of retaliation. Dual national Contractors that are a shadowy group.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-11-05 14:50||   2019-11-05 14:50|| Front Page Top

#26 Has Human Rights Watch condemned the cartels for these actual civilians who were slaughtered?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-11-05 18:49||   2019-11-05 18:49|| Front Page Top

#27 Ought to make House Hunters International interesting watching when they do Mexico.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-05 19:10||   2019-11-05 19:10|| Front Page Top

#28  Has Human Rights Watch condemned the cartels for these actual civilians who were slaughtered?

Many moons ago, while driving about the countryside, I heard an interview on the BBC with some spokesdroid from either HRW or Amnesia International. It stuck in my head all these years because in the midst of the usual tongue bath, the interviewer suddenly brought the heat: "You guys are always banging on about the West. There are some really shitty people in this world. How come you never bitch about them?"
(yeah, I'm paraphrasing)
The reply? "Because the really awful people ignore us."
I was stunned, both by the hypocrisy of the remark and by the fact that she told the truth. So much for seizing the high moral ground.
Posted by SteveS 2019-11-05 19:36||   2019-11-05 19:36|| Front Page Top

#29 The interesting thing, SteveS, is that by studiously ignoring the acts of the truly bad who "ignore them", they provide cover for those regimes and groups. The worst abusers of human rights are whitewashed, and the countries that really try get slimed by HRW repeating the flimsiest claims they can find.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-11-05 19:54||   2019-11-05 19:54|| Front Page Top

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