With power and influence comes responsibilities....
Iran, seeking the crown or regional hegemony, blessed by the USA via Obama, is now a target.
Of Course, Iran is no stranger to kidnapping....
An Iranian diplomat was killed in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday when he resisted gunmen who were trying to kidnap him near the ambassador's residence, the Iranian Foreign Ministry and Yemeni security sources have said.
Iranian Diplomats are now FAIR GAME as Currency.
And of course, China and it's global reach is also perceived as the new rich kid on the block.
Chinese workers are worth a few bucks.
One can only wonder if Iran and China are worried that the technic of kidnapping that both employed for decades are getting pissed that the chickens have come home to roost?
Let's remember the Iranian sponsored attack and ransacking of the British Embassy in 2011
Embassies are only sacred to the West.
Of course there was the Benghazi attack that murdered 4 American diplomats
Of course this all leads to the allowable and permissible usage of the "RED CROSS" or RED CRESCENT" Ambulance as actual military transports...
Or as Assad has done the TARGETING of Hospitals.
Maybe the GOOD thing that has come of the recent wars in the Arab world and the growing power of China is the abandonment of so called "Western Rules of War".
Maybe the targeting of schools, civilians, hospital and embassies is the new normal.
For which, this writer, thanks the Islamic peoples and the Chinese for ushering in the new normal.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe the GOOD thing that has come of the recent wars in the Arab world and the growing power of China is the abandonment of so called "Western Rules of War".
Maybe the good thing?
I see there is no link. Too bad. I always like to know who I am calling an ass.
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What link would you like?
DeleteThe new normal is here....
Maybe you should respond to the thesis and not the messenger?
Do you call the Palestinians "asses" when the use ambulances to smuggle armed combatants thru checkpoints?
DeleteOr just those reporting such behavior?
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DeleteAh, I should have known. WiO paints us a self-portrait.
Rat was annoying what with his endless repetition and all, but he did make a couple of good points. One was on the matter of equivalency. You charge me with being anti-Semitic but in that charge you give yourself , and Israel, to much credit and prominence. I have a repeated refrain I have used here for years. While I feel sorry for most of the civilian populations in the ME, I find EVERY government there as well as there surrogate paramilitary organizations to be riddled with dicks and warmongers.
You brag about knowing a lot about the Arab mind. You should. You are simply a reflection of it.
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QuirkSat Jan 18, 12:11:00 PM EST
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Ah, I should have known. WiO paints us a self-portrait.
So instead of commenting on the post, you simply attack me. Now what is that called? Oh yeah Ad hominem..
An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.[2] Fallacious Ad hominem reasoning is normally categorized as an informal fallacy,[3][4][5] more precisely as a genetic fallacy,[6] a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.[7] Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of statements of fact.
do you need a link?
quirk: " While I feel sorry for most of the civilian populations in the ME, I find EVERY government there as well as there surrogate paramilitary organizations to be riddled with dicks and warmongers."
Deleteah grain of a comment...
Off topic of course.. Does your comment expand to the USA and the rest of the West? Of just the ME?
quirk: You brag about knowing a lot about the Arab mind. You should. You are simply a reflection of it.
DeleteNo I am a simple observer of other Arab world. The Arab world, along with Iranians and Chinese do not live up to the so called standards of the "West".
Maybe you should focus on the issue and not me?
It would be liberating for you not to focus on the messenger, rather the message.
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DeleteSo instead of commenting on the post, you simply attack me.
It should have been clear from my first post that I was call anyone who could write
Maybe the GOOD thing that has come of the recent wars in the Arab world and the growing power of China is the abandonment of so called "Western Rules of War".
is an ass.
When it became clear that the thought was yours, the charge was merely more specific.
Not just a 'good' thing that we devolve further into barbarism but a 'GOOD' thing.
as·i·nine [as-uh-nahyn] Show IPA
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DeleteDoes your comment expand to the USA and the rest of the West? Of just the ME?
Oh, it expands to the USA and the West in some instance. But in the ME it is pretty universal, all dicks, all the time.
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DeleteNo I am a simple observer of other Arab world. The Arab world, along with Iranians and Chinese do not live up to the so called standards of the "West".
Yet, you say this is a "GOOD" thing. Not only do you not offer us a distinction you don't even provide the difference.
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Quirk: It should have been clear from my first post that I was call anyone who could write
DeleteIt's hard to read your odd language.
Sometimes those that tell us of their superior language skills (quirk) should proof read.
quirk: Yet, you say this is a "GOOD" thing. Not only do you not offer us a distinction you don't even provide the difference.
Deletethe complete, in context statement was: Maybe the GOOD thing that has come of the recent wars in the Arab world and the growing power of China is the abandonment of so called "Western Rules of War".
Try learning the word "maybe"...
Man, I guess being a "scholastic merit" student from the '40 doesn't go as far as it used to... Who would have thought. Maybe you are just having a "senior" moment and skipping words?
quirk: It should have been clear from my first post that I was call anyone who could write
DeleteMaybe the GOOD thing that has come of the recent wars in the Arab world and the growing power of China is the abandonment of so called "Western Rules of War".
is an ass.
Why? It's what is happening on purpose.
Maybe there is a good side to the change we now have to live within...
Simply climbing on your box to look down and call me an "ass" does not contribute to the debate or discussion.
Your soapbox runneth over...
and yet you say nothing....
thanks for confirming your quirkiness today.
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DeleteThe man who doesn't even know (or care) how to spell anti-Semitism despite the number of times he has used the term accuses me because of a sticking keyboard.
Funny.
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DeleteTry learning the word "maybe"...
Maybe there is a good side to the change we now have to live within...
Anyone who could possibly conceive there 'may be' some good to come out of the cult of violence in the ME (death by starvation, barrel bombs, dislocations of populations, mutilation, torture, occupying forces, even cannibalism) is an ass.
No good comes from it. The only good would be if it stopped.
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Oh, it expands to the USA and the West in some instance. But in the ME it is pretty universal, all dicks, all the time.
DeleteOne needs only to see the aftermath of the King David Hotel bombing to see Quirk's point. It looks oddly 911-ish.
Really? Ms T? Have you ever seen the tall towers of the King David Hotel?
DeleteThe King David Hotel was at the time a military HQ for the British. At last look the British's homeland was several thousand miles away.
Your attempt at bringing in to the discussion "jewish terrorism" just doesn't cut it. Now if you could provide an example of Israel targeting Hamas's kindergartens or hospitals? Go for it, otherwise? you are just blowing smoke, as usual.
But your point is taken. israel should blow up, palestinian ambulances it suspects of being used as military vehicles. No questions asked, just shoot.
It would be funnier than shit to watch those secondary explosions from ordinances hidden in the Red Crescent vehicles.
Cant wait for the blooper tape of those multiple fireballs!!!!
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ReplyDeleteAnother example of the enforced conformity to PC views, this time in the UK.
Only 50 years ago, liberals supported “alternative culture”; they manned the barricades in protest against the establishment position on war, race and feminism. Today, liberals abhor any alternative to their credo. No one should offer an opinion that runs against the grain on issues that liberals consider “set in stone”, such as sexuality or the sanctity of life.
Intolerance is no longer the prerogative of overt racists and other bigots – it is state-sanctioned. It is no longer the case that the authorities are impartial on matters of belief, and will intervene to protect the interests and heritage of the weak. When it comes to crushing the rights of those who dissent from the new orthodoxy, politicians and bureaucrats alike are in the forefront of the attacks, not the defence...
http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/01/new-intolerance-will-we-regret-pushing-christians-out-public-life
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You do not have to look far for evidence of the new alternative order. The last two wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan were fought with mercenaries. This government hires foreigners and guarantee them citizenship to fight their wars for them. The Left seems fine with that. Examine the record of American wars, and very few of them were ever fought for self-defense or national interests. The Left only objected when then the possibility of their participation was a certainty. They have shifted their focus to their social orthodoxy.
DeleteAm I to assume that we can all post articles?
DeleteNot you.
DeleteKnock yourself out, Jenny. My articles never have anything to do with the Middle East, so I guess we need "balance".
DeleteDidn’t Mossad agents take actual UK passports and clone them for cover to enter into murder and espionage? Didn’t they murder young Iranian academics because they were brilliant atomic scientists. What rules were they covered by?
ReplyDeleteThe Mossad, certainly did use other nations passports, just as America and almost every nation does,
DeleteAs for the Iranian nuclear scientists? No PROOF of any quality points to those killings. However there is evidence that the magnetic bombs placed on several of those scientists were the exact same types the Iranians used to target Israeli diplomats, the Iranians were arrested and the magnetic bombs were recovered. All within WEEKS of those Iranian deaths.
But I will not quibble. Those " young Iranian academics" were not " young Iranian academics" they were Iranian scientists working on an Iranian bomb within the Iranian Military, they were legal targets of war.
Just as all nations use spec ops or "black ops" (including some members here or employed by same agencies) so do the Israelis.. No secret there.
Now targeting a school that contains no military purpose? Targeting a Jewish Community Center that kills 242 men, women and children? That is, or was outside the rule book. I do remember Iran kidnapping hikers, hijacking a British boat in international waters, an embassy they took over....
Deuce seems upset that several Iranian Nuclear Scientists were whacked.
DeleteWho did it? Israel? Maybe? Iran? To me most likely?
But if Deuce is trying to say that Israel is "outside the law" for allegedly killing those responsible for creating a Iranian nuclear weapon?
What does that say about America and it's drones attacks? It's rendition programs?
The Iranians hanging 40 people this WEEK alone for political crimes?
Deuce, Rat and Ms T all admit to being a part of the USA's military industrial complex. (rufus supposedly served, allen served but that's not the same issue)
Maybe the point of the thread was the movement FROM legit black ops against enemies of the state towards the use of targeting civilians on purpose.
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DeleteMaybe the point of the thread was the movement FROM legit black ops against enemies of the state towards the use of targeting civilians on purpose.
If that was the intent of the thread you put up, you need to go back for a remedial English class.
Or, go back to the [sarcasm button on] box.
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Thanks for the English language criticism....
DeleteSorry if we don't live up to your Scholastic Merit status...
I know everything you write is perfect and clear..
(pardon me while I puke)
Deuce, Rat and Ms T all admit to being a part of the USA's military industrial complex.
DeleteThe way you phrase that, WiO, "admit to being", it is almost as though you thought veterans were assholes.
Those " young Iranian academics" were not " young Iranian academics" they were Iranian scientists working on an Iranian bomb within the Iranian Military, they were legal targets of war.
DeleteIran, unlike Israel, signed the NPT and has the legal right to enrich Uranium.
Iran, unlike Israel, signed the NPT and has the legal right to enrich Uranium.
DeleteSo? It has no right to build a bomb, transfer billions in weapons to hezbollah, blow up Jewish Community Centers, smuggle weapons to Hamas or blow up Jewish tourists across the globe.
If you also tell the world that israel needs to be erased from the globe? It violates the UN Charter.
Iran is in an active state of war with Israel. Those scientists are fair game.
If you are so moved? move there and be a human body shield for them
I bet if your neighbor has a party on the Fourth of July you call the cops because there's a "meth lab" next door, right?
DeleteWIO Iran is in an active state of war with Israel.
DeleteAnd if the Iranian Revolutionaries ever apologized for committing the act of war by taking over our embassy, I missed it.
Seems to me Iran is still at war with the US.
I could be wrong though, there was a few years that were a blur to me.
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DeleteI bet if your neighbor has a party on the Fourth of July you call the cops because there's a "meth lab" next door, right?
Statements like the one above? Show what a fucktard you actually are...
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Being inept I'm not certain how to the #3 and #4 but the #1 and #2 seem simple enough.
DeleteWill do my best, which isn't much.
Copy the full article....got it. Give attribution.....got it.
There's a button for "Compose" and a button for "HTML". Go in Compose and highlight your text, and make it all Verdana. Put your images in too. Then flip over to HTML to put your link in manually. It's easier that way.
DeleteThe tone of the blog has improved since I initiated the controls. Everyone who has applied and accepted has been conducting themselves respectfully. I opened the gate for six hours and was once again disappointed with the results. I encourage anyone to apply to comment, regardless of their points of view.
ReplyDeleteIt's like night and day.
DeleteIt's wonderful.
A little control is not always a bad thing.
All parents know this.
DeleteMy Niece tells me, being her uncle, I now have a veto over choice of a marriage mate !!
Uncles of Indian women actually amount to something !!
Even American uncles.
I did tell her it was not usually done that way here, where even parents are not normally afforded such rights, but did not protest my new responsibilities.
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DeleteShouldn't you be over at Shaadi.com doing some preliminary work?
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My Niece tells me, being her uncle, I now have a veto over choice of a marriage mate !!
DeleteAnd when I call her a Dot Head you'll retaliate by calling me Huk Huk, or Flip.
Dot Head, never heard that, that's kind of funny, Flippo.
DeleteStill way too early for Shaadi yet, Q.
DeleteShe's less than a year away from Bozo.
I'll keep it in mind, though.
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ReplyDeleteThe Five Best Submarines of All Time?
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-five-best-submarines-all-time-9728
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Worst five must include the CSS Horace Lawson Hunley, which like to kill 'er crew when she went down three times in a row, for a total of 21 Rebel sailors, including Mr. Hunley.
DeleteDo you call the Palestinians "asses" when the use ambulances to smuggle armed combatants thru checkpoints?
ReplyDeleteFool me once, shame on the Pallies. Fool me twice, shame on the IDF.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/world/asia/afghanistan-restaurant-attack.html?hp
ReplyDeleteTaliban Call Kabul Cafe Attack Retaliation for a Strike That Killed Civilians
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ReplyDeleteYour thread could have proven interesting, if debated without acrimony; but "boil, boil, trouble and toil..."
Until now, I was unaware that the subject of a thread needed to be sourced, i.e. it could not be a personal opinion. Obviously, if sourced, attribution would have been expected.
We are playing by their ROE, which explains our inability to win skirmishes, battles, and wars. Without firing a shot, the Chinese have "occupied" "disputed" air and sea space. The consequences of this single unanswered act of aggression will be far reaching and long term. I am certain it eventually will lead to far, far more grief than an apartment block in "liberated" Jerusalem.
We pick our battles.
Wake me up when China occupies disputed sea space off the US West Coast or Alaska.
DeleteAren't they thinking of occupying some Flip island?
DeleteWhere's your dual national patriotism??
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By the way my Dot Head doesn't do dot head. She is into jewelry though.
DeleteHindu women are the most bejeweled and lovely creatures on earth !
Example:
Deletehttp://www.bing.com/images/search?q=indu+women+wearing+jewelry+-+pictures&qpvt=indu+women+wearing+jewelry+-+pictures&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=0EF00CAFA90A7C73BBA9BD723518EE1C3EB4AC3D&selectedIndex=1
They even wear jewelry on their feet......
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DeleteThey even wear jewelry on their feet......
Wow! Bob!...so does Dennis Rodman...I did not know he was Hindu; I thought he was a mutant Nork.
Ominous warning: Admiral concedes U.S. losing dominance to China
ReplyDeleteCommander of Obama’s Asia pivot eyes military posturing by China
The Obama administration’s ballyhooed military “pivot” to Asia is running into some frank talk from the top U.S. commander in the Pacific.
Three years after the Pentagon said it was de-emphasizing Europe in favor of the Asia-Pacific region, NavyAdm. Samuel J. Locklear III said this week that U.S. dominance has weakened in the shadow of a more aggressive China.
“But this is a remarkable assumption, especially in light of recent Chinese behavior. China is not interested in providing security for everyone and, frankly, not even for anyone other than itself. This is the kind of bizarre lens that led one of Adm. Locklear’s predecessors to offer to help China with its carrier development.”
Developments such as Beijing’s air defense zone may be “small tactical gambits,” Mr. Cronin said. But if the U.S. does not “respond and we don’t remain strong, then China will unilaterally redefine the region in a way that we do not recognize.”
According to the Defense News report, Adm. Locklear said Washington’s focus on the Middle East over the past 20 years has detracted from U.S. military needs in the Pacific.
HIZBALLAH PREPARING FOR WAR WITH ISRAEL
ReplyDeleteThe IDF believes that Hizballah intends to confront Israel in built-up civilian areas as opposed to the more open fields in 2006. By building bases of operations amongst civilians, while targeting Israeli civilians, the terrorist organization is in effect committing a double war crime. These recent developments further emphasize that the group remains committed to Israel's destruction in spite of the other challenges it faces.
This cannot be true. Dr. Rice and Zarkosy promised that the Lebanese border would be vigorously patroled and that Hezbollah would be held to account. Mr. Olmert said he believed them. I am sure Hezbollah is just installing playgrounds.
It's all for the kids........those small suicide vests.......all for the kids.
DeleteYes, those cute little suicide vests with Hamood the camel on the front. Just press Hamood's nose and "BLAM!!!!". Do wee Muslim warriors get a raincheck on the virgins?
DeleteCUSTOMER KILLS GUNMAN WHO BURST INTO STORE THREATENING TO KILL EVERYONE
ReplyDelete...another success for conceal carry...
Suicide by armed citizen.
DeleteA Brother's Vengeance: The Preacher Who Could Topple Erdogan
ReplyDeleteVengeance is mine, saith so many older brothers to the younger.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it so darned hard to work with these people?
ReplyDeleteEgyptian editor backtracks after saying 'Americans will be killed in streets'
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ReplyDeleteThe Canadian Energy Board (or whatever it is called) has just approved a plan to build a pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver, British Columbia so as to be able to ship their product to Asia, instead of the USA.
Thank you, President Obama, doing everything he can, every day, to harm the USofA.
product = oil from the Canadian tar sands......
DeleteSo now the Tar Sand Oil goes to China from Vancouver, rather than Texas. Big Whoop.
DeleteDeuceSat Jan 18, 12:30:00 PM EST
ReplyDeleteDidn’t Mossad agents take actual UK passports and clone them for cover to enter into murder and espionage?
Agents used cloned passports. No murder was committed. The scum they executed had bragged on PA TV about the number of Jews he had helped murder, including children. That was a mistake. Enough blatant evidence was left on tape etc to protect the unwary civilians whose passports were used.
Not to be petty, but the broadcast interview with this sadist was contrary to law and previous agreements with the PA. If justice could be had, his extra-judicial execution would not have been necessary.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/nun-gives-birth-baby-italy-francis_n_4619218.html
ReplyDeleteA Salvadorean nun who said she had no idea she was pregnant gave birth in Italy this week after she felt stomach cramps in her convent and was rushed to hospital, Italian media reported on Friday.
IT'S A MIRACLE!
Alert the press...
DeleteNew constitution in Egypt passes by 98 percent. Even kicks a few rights in for women.
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Delete98%
DeleteThink of that.
Half of Egypt seems to have radically altered their politico/religious views in the last few months.
Yup, ah huh.....
What's Jimmah Carter saying about the count?
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ReplyDeleteJanuary 19, 2014
Drugs R Us
By Clarice Feldman
The more I read about Fast and Furious, the more I am reminded of Milo Minderbinder's M & M Syndicate in Joseph Heller's Catch 22. If you recall, "the business of government is 'business" was Milo's operating principle and he sacrificed the needs of the troops to expand M & M's profits, selling off their parachutes and feeding them chocolate dipped Egyptian cotton. In Fast & Furious, the object of the operation seems to have been to increase illicit Mexico-U.S. drug running and border crime, protecting the worst criminals from prosecution and then blaming lawful licensed gun dealers for the perfectly predictable results of the government's secret, bizarre machinations by which they were forced to sell these weapons to middlemen who carried out the cross-border weapons transfers.
This week we learned from Business Insider that for some years (predating this administration, that is, from 2000 to 2012) the U.S. government has been working with the dreaded Sinaloa drug cartel. In exchange for helping them damage their rivals' operations and import their drugs into the U.S. without consequence, they provided us with information about those rivals.
The account asserts that Vincente Zambada-Nieble, a Sinaloa cartel officer, was arrested and told Mexican authorities that the gunrunning operation Fast & Furious was part of our government's agreement to arm and finance Sinaloa's operation.
Eighty percent of the drugs -- heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine worth $3 billion -- which enter the Chicago area and which find their way throughout the country each year are brought here by Sinaloa. So as we are spending a fortune to interdict illegal drug running in the U.S. and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is working to imprison those who have them in their possession, DEA is working along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATFE) as a partner with perhaps the largest Western illegal drug running, murderous criminal enterprise.
This provides greater detail:
Zambada-Niebla [son of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, reputedly Sinaloa's "logistics coordinator"] has also alleged that Operation Fast and Furious was an agreement with the US to finance and arm Sinaloa in return for information on rivals. The gun-walking scandal, dubbed Operation Fast and Furious, involved the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives deliberately allowing licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal buyers. The ATF allegedly planned to track the guns to Mexican drug cartels for later arrest.
To recap, the Drug Enforcement Agency whose mission is to "is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States and to bring to the criminal and civil justice systems of the United States, or any other competent jurisdiction, those organizations, and principal members of organizations, involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the United States," and the ATFE whose mission is "to conduct criminal investigations, regulate the firearms and explosives industries, and assist other law enforcement agencies" facilitated what appears to be the biggest drug operation in this country and Mexico and aided in the transfer of thousands of illegal weapons to that cartel. What had started years before as a small and idiotic plan to let a few guns across the border to track their sale to Sinaloa rival drug cartels, became under Holder (who still claims to know nothing of this) a scheme in which the U.S. forced licensed firearms sellers to become a source of a river of firearms for Sinaloa with really no tracking effort whatsoever. We know that at least two U.S. law officers were killed with these weapons and hundreds of Mexicans as well. How many of these weapons were used to commit other crimes in these two countries is as yet unknown and may never be.
DeleteAnd then, to make the entire effort more outrageous, the Attorney General claimed to know nothing of the operation while the administration which had forced the licensed firearms sellers to make these unrecorded sales used the same sales to argue for greater restrictions on gun marketing, which one presumes would be enforced by ATFE, the very agency smack dab in the middle of the largest gun and drug trafficking operation of all.
Could even Joseph Heller have imagined this? Reality approximates Milo's machinations.
Janet at Just One Minute has another question: U.S. border agent Brian Terry was shot on December 14th and died the following day, December 15th. That was the very day the Washington Post writers rolled out the administration propaganda that more regulation was needed to prevent drugs from crossing the border.
Drug cartels have aggressively turned to the United States because Mexico severely restricts gun ownership. Following gunrunning paths that have been in place for 50 years, firearms cross the border and end up in the hands of criminals as well as ordinary citizens seeking protection.
"This is not a new phenomenon," Webb said.
What is different now, authorities say, is the number of high-powered rifles heading south -- AR-15s, AK-47s, armor-piercing .50-caliber weapons -- and the savagery of the violence.
Federal authorities say more than 60,000 U.S. guns of all types have been recovered in Mexico in the past four years, helping fuel the violence that has contributed to 30,000 deaths. Mexican President Felipe Calderon came to Washington in May and urged Congress and President Obama to stop the flow of guns south.
U.S. law enforcement has ramped up its focus on gun trafficking along the southwestern border. Arrests of individual gunrunners have surged. But investigators rarely bring regulatory actions or criminal cases against U.S. gun dealers, in part because of laws backed by the gun lobby that make it difficult to prove cases.
Who fed this poppycock to James Grimaldi and Sari Horowitz? Is the Washington Post the least bit concerned that it was used -- and by whom? -- to provide cover for this lunatic government operation and propagandize its gun grabbing ploy?
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/drugs_r_us.html#ixzz2qqB0ESEQ
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DeleteOnly in America:
DeleteBig Dope In Denver
All "Medical" Marijuana is grown indoors, consuming electricity and fertilizer instead of sunlight and soil.
Individual plants are tracked from seedlings to maturity, and taxes are paid.
Some companies then bake the weed into edibles for sale to "Medical" consumers.
"As we first reported before that vote, if you want to know what legalized marijuana might look like, the place to go is Colorado, which has the most developed medical marijuana industry in the country.
In Denver, if you want to find a medical marijuana dispensary, just look for the green cross. You won't have to go far.
There are 204 of them in the Mile High City -- that's roughly three times the number of Starbucks and McDonald's combined."
Rocky Mountain High
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