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veggie

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Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War
#7547493 - 10/22/07 04:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War October 22, 2007 - Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush asked Congress on Monday to approve $500 million to help Mexico fight drug trafficking that spills over into the United States, the first installment of a $1.4 billion aid package for the U.S.'s southern neighbor.
The money was included in a supplemental budget request for the fiscal year that began this month that is primarily aimed at adding funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The measure included several unrelated items, such as $724 million for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region and $106 million to make good on U.S. promises in a nuclear deal with North Korea.
"All of these are urgent priorities of the United States, and the Congress should fund them without delay," Bush said.
The White House took extra care to shine a spotlight on Mexico's portion of the request, with White House press secretary Dana Perino issuing a separate statement about it and Bush calling Mexican President Felipe Calderon to let him know about the money.
Perino said Calderon's "decisive actions" already have begun to bear fruit in the United States, by disrupting drug trafficker supply lines and contributing to cocaine and methamphetamine supply shortages.
"The United States will do all it can to support Mexico's efforts to break the power and impunity of drug organizations and to strengthen Mexico's capabilities to deal with these common threats," she said.
Bush also asked for $50 million to fight drug trafficking in Central America.
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department is calling the aid plan the "Merida Initiative," after the Mexican city where both leaders discussed the details earlier this year.
Opponents have a different label, however: "Plan Mexico," a snide reference to the Plan Colombia military aid package that has failed to put much of a dent in Colombian cocaine production while raising fears locally about violations of national sovereignty.
Unlike the Colombia initiative, though, the Mexico proposal does not involve putting U.S. troops on Mexican soil.
Instead, it would pay for such things as helicopters and surveillance aircraft, "nonintrusive inspection equipment" and drug-sniffing dogs for Mexican customs, the new federal police and the Mexican military. Other aspects include technical advice and training aimed at cleaning up corrupt police forces and establishing witness-protection programs, the State Department said.
Mexico's Foreign Relation Department said the initiative "will allow both countries to confront more efficiently the common threat of transnational organized crime."
The plan was founded on the basis of "mutual confidence and respect for the sovereignty and jurisdiction of each country," the department added.
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ThirdEyeOpening
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: veggie]
#7547592 - 10/22/07 04:37 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Unfucking believable.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: ThirdEyeOpening]
#7547611 - 10/22/07 04:43 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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"All of these are urgent priorities of the United States"
Riight.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: mentalIMAGE]
#7548323 - 10/22/07 06:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Odd that Bush cuts cancer research funding by 40 million dollars earlier this year and decides to put more money towards prohibition which has already proven not to work.
I'm sure the majority of America would vote to put that 500 million dollars some where else. Like Cancer research.
Personally I would vote to put it towards higher education programs because as a college student I am taking out loans just so I can go to school that doesn't include all of the debt I am collecting from living expenses.
Sometimes I feel like America is hopeless.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: WeedyWonka]
#7548951 - 10/22/07 08:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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What the fuck. Pulling more money out of our fucked asses.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: Phishe]
#7549274 - 10/22/07 09:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Probably the most accurate picture of him I've seen to date.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: veggie]
#7549384 - 10/22/07 10:23 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I can really see the Mexican authorities spending this wisely.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: Le_Canard]
#7550250 - 10/23/07 08:41 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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gotta love that picture.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: veggie]
#7550286 - 10/23/07 08:49 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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George Bush is a national embarrassment.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: stew248]
#7550419 - 10/23/07 11:06 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
stew248 said: George Bush is a national embarrassment.
International. The entire human race should feel embarrassed to have him walking among us.
$500 million could be spent much more wisely here at home rather than on some dirty, corrupt Mexi problem. Fuck them and their drug lords. Whatever efforts are funded by this money will be rolled back within months. They never learn that pouring more money on the problem only makes it worse.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: DNKYD]
#7551227 - 10/23/07 02:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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why does it feel like US tax money is going everywhere but to the US?
Cancer research is just one of many good programs scrapped for war and political agendas im sure.
Well anyways, heres to another how many million going to be put into the california wildfire emergency relief fund...
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: ManianFH]
#7552586 - 10/23/07 08:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hah what about S-Chip? We have plenty of money to through away into death and destruction, but health care for poor kids? Thats socialism. This country deserves what it gets for electing mediocre dumb shits. If they really wanted to put an end to organized crime, street gangs, and drug cartels they would LEGALIZE.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: stew248]
#7554026 - 10/24/07 08:14 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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To Mr. Bush,
Please stop wasting the money we give in taxes.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: a_guy_named_ai]
#7554159 - 10/24/07 08:56 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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This is just so fucked up. And thanks, I love that picture too. That's why I made it my signature sometime back.
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Re: Bush Seeks $500M for Mexican Drug War [Re: trippindad82]
#7555809 - 10/24/07 04:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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trippindad82 said: This is just so fucked up. And thanks, I love that picture too. That's why I made it my signature sometime back.
He must be sniffing a shit load of coke to rack up a tab like that!!
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