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2011-06-24 Home Front: Politix

Project Gunwalker: Darrell Issa Heads To Mexico This Weekend

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Posted by Sherry 2011-06-24 00:33|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 ...What strikes me as odd - and perhaps I just haven't been checking the right sources - is a surprising amount of silence from Mexico. I mean, by any reasonable definition, this was an act of war. You'd think that Mexico would be going apeshiat right about now...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-06-24 06:37|| 2011-06-24 06:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Indeed, who were the cut-outs?

Posted by S 2011-06-24 08:16|| 2011-06-24 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Mike, Mexico is riled up about this:

Translation of an article from La Jornada of Mexico City for March 6.

The Mexican Foreign Office stated in a press release that it has proceded to request detailed information from United States authorities in this matter and indicated that the government of Mexico will continue with special interest the investigations announced by both the ATF and the Justice Department [of the United States].

And ..

Mexico lawmakers livid over US 'Operation Fast and Furious' By Nacha Cattan, Correspondent / March 9, 2011

[The operation] is a grave violation of international rights, Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín, president of Mexico's lower house of Congress, said Tuesday. What will happen if next time theyll need to funnel in trained assassins, for example, or nuclear arms?

Fellow congressman Humberto Trevino claims that an estimated 150 shooting injuries or deaths have been linked to guns that were allowed by US agents to proceed into Mexico.

Posted by Sherry 2011-06-24 10:49|| 2011-06-24 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Mike, just because the MSM in America resolutely refuses to report the fury of the Mexicans doesn't mean they're not furious.

Posted by Steve White 2011-06-24 11:00|| 2011-06-24 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Is The One going to apologize to Mexico for this? Apologies to foreign countries are his specialty, after all.

Posted by Matt 2011-06-24 13:06|| 2011-06-24 13:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Mexico could file a complaint with the UN. I'm sure all the usual anti-American crowd there will jump aboard.
Irony abounds.

Posted by My two cents 2011-06-24 18:56|| 2011-06-24 18:56|| Front Page Top

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