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2011-10-04 Caribbean-Latin America

Perry sez send troops to Mexico to fight drug wars, capture Villa

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-10-04 05:08|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Smear of the Day.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-10-04 07:56|| 2011-10-04 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Or we could just let them legalize drugs like they already want to. Not illegal = no huge stacks of cash = nothing to fight over = treat it like a medical problem in the open and not a criminal or military one. Just ask Portugal.

Posted by Iblis 2011-10-04 11:33|| 2011-10-04 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Iblis, without drug prohibition funding criminals we'd need far less prisons and police...

You'd be putting loads of the police and prison workers out of a job you nasty nasty person, plus the swat team wouldn't be needed as much and where's the fun in that?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-04 12:03|| 2011-10-04 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Just ask Portugal.

That'd be the same Portugal that suddenly started seeing violence in the countryside as the drug dealers set up house, bringing their enforcers and ne'er-do-wells? I'm not sure they've concluded it was a wise decision, but it most definitely is a difficult one to reverse.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-04 12:03|| 2011-10-04 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 TW --

Yeah, we never have those problems when drugs are outlawed. As for reversing the decision, we've already done it. Heroin was once sold under the Bayer brand. Coca Cola -- well, you know.

Not saying that drugs are good. They aren't. But prohibition just makes it all much, much worse.

Posted by Iblis 2011-10-04 12:12|| 2011-10-04 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 We've always had gangsterism of one sort or another, Iblis. But it was a shock to Portugal, or so I've read.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-04 13:00|| 2011-10-04 13:00|| Front Page Top

#7 TW --

Read what it was like before they legalized. Entire cities given up.

Posted by Iblis 2011-10-04 13:43|| 2011-10-04 13:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Better yet, no troops. Drones and Tomahawks? Yessss

Posted by Fat Bob Bourbon9196 2011-10-04 14:12|| 2011-10-04 14:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Hire a few million unemployed US citizens to stand elbow to elbow along the southern border would at least temporarily solve a lot of problems for the US.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-04 15:41|| 2011-10-04 15:41|| Front Page Top

#10 No, Anguper. The drug runners would shoot one, the rest would run away, and the border would be at least as open as it is now.
Now offer a BOUNTY on border crossers.... well, wolves become an endangered species for a century.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-10-04 19:07|| 2011-10-04 19:07|| Front Page Top

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