If you thought electing Barack Obama president would bring an end to the disaterous war on drugs, think again.
Here's a link to an article appearing at the Huffington post outlining an increase in funding dedicated to the Mexican military.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-carlsen/congress-sends-drug-war-s_b_206145.html
An excerpt:
Just when the Obama administration showed signs of rethinking the disastrous "war on drugs" at home, Congress decided to export it big-time to Mexico. On foreign land, this monument to wrong-headed policy takes a particularly bloody and bellicose form.
A little-known measure buried in the U.S. 2009 Supplemental Bill would provide millions of dollars to corrupt Mexican security forces engaged in an unwinnable drug war. Disguised as a way of "helping" our beleaguered neighbor, the measure goes beyond even what the Bush administration planned. The aid package will push Mexico closer to a Colombia scenario and create a new quagmire to suck up scarce U.S. public resources...
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it's ok--it's just mexicans doing it to themselves
Submitted June 8, 2009 - 6:25 am by Dennes LongoriaHere I have to blame Mexicans more than the gringos, as far as importing all that heavy artillery... We all know the military is just one more cartel battling for position... people down there just love the 'idea' behind the war on drugs, so so long as they keep buying, i'm sure Obama and Calderon will conjure something up to keep selling...as long as it's only Mexicans that actually get killed, the American media won't even notice the difference from increased Mexican drugwar funding vs. decreased funding. One more cockroach--one less cockroach...look, there goes another...