...at the least has refused to be one of their bad guys.
The U.S. "war on drugs" is the most corrupt, horrible program that the U.S. government has ever enacted--lo, these many decades of bloodshed and mayhem and billions and billions of our tax dollars gone down that festering rat hole.
To say I'm skeptical of this back-channel crapola about the Mexican general is totally insufficient. I don't believe for a second that the Pentagon or the DEA give a rat's ass about drug trafficking that they don't control the profits of, OR about skimming money from yet another U.S. war profiteer boondoggle. I believe that these entities--or powerful cabals within these entities--are into illicit drug profits and war profiteer slush funds, up to their ears. So I just DON'T BELIEVE their stated objections to this Mexican general.
Re Obama*, I think two things, on this matter: 1) He's not as filthy as the Bush Junta, but 2) he's made some serious deals with some serious evildoers to get where he is, including sweeping the Bush Junta horrors and many crimes in Colombia under the rug, including their use of the U.S. "war on drugs" to clean up on cocaine profits; and Obama's general goal is legalization to the benefit of U.S.-based transglobal corporations (Monsanto, Pifzer, et al) who intend to GMO-ize marijuana and probably cocaine and monopolize these products and profits, post-legalization (and, to that end, Obama's DoJ has been busting small LEGAL marijuana businesses in the western states here, a parallel to the Bush Junta's brutal displacement of FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands in Colombia, to consolidate the trillion+ cocaine trade into fewer hands and better direct its profits).
The U.S. "war on drugs" is HORSESHIT. A con job of epic proportions.
So, choose your poison: Monsanto GMO-ized medical and recreational drugs, which will be the only such products on the market because they own the seed, the land and our souls, or, endless war profiteer wars between the Pentagon/DEA and the drug lords who won't play their game--paid for by you and me and by all the "collateral damage" caught between their bullets.
You might say that the "Monsanto solution" will be less bloody, and it's probably true--but WHAT a choice, eh?
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*Obama--or rather his mentor, Leon Panetta (close ties to Bush Sr.), got rid of the obvious mafia don that the Bushwhacks had running Colombia (Alvaro Uribe), and installed a new rightwinger, Manuel Santos, who almost immediately declared his support for the legalization of all drugs (as have several other RIGHTWING LatAm presidents). Figure THAT one out! Monsanto, Pifzer, et al, are in there somewhere, biding their time.)
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