Meet the Neighbors: Obama Sits Down With Calderon

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Source: NYT/AP

"Days before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama is meeting Mexican President Felipe Calderon, a pre-inauguration tradition that comes as Mexico's drug violence escalates and spills into the United States.

Obama transition officials say that Monday's session, to be held at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, is intended to underscore the importance of the relationship between Mexico and the U.S."



Read more: http://nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/12/washington/AP-Ob...

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1. Interesting fact: 90% of ALL weapons for the drug cartels are provided by the USA

Thanks to our lenient gun laws in the US, the thugs and drug cartels are being provided with 90% of their arsenal from the USA.

Is this ALL we produce anymore? Weapons for the zionist pigs in Israel, and guns to the drug cartels around the world? God, what a shame.

Five thousand, five hundred murders in Mexico this past year....most due to the drug war. The supply is in response to the HUGE demand in the US.

The US crashed down on the drug cartel routes in Colombia...so now they've move into Mexico and have taken root in a third world nation right next to the US store front.

Nice going! Let's keep blaming the "dumb, back wards Mexicans"....right!

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3. % weapons IN THE ENTIRE WORLD????

Beware the military industrial complex.

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2. Wow, no mention in that article of the pseudo-privatization of PEMEX

Calderon's chief policy "innovation" of his dubiously legitimate tenure.