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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|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1773 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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