Reply #3: These terrorists drug traffickers are next door and in some cases literally "next door"!

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The time to address this is now! We should take control of this "war" next door even more so then we all ready are. I know the border patrol and other law enforcement are trying but I also know that the "private" military is also involved in this, so what are we the taxpayers getting for our money?

U.S. security firms vie for Mexican drug war work
Mica Rosenberg
MEXICO CITY
Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:37pm

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE56F7B820090716

Thu, Jul 16 2009MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - As Mexico battles to keep a lid on raging drug war violence, U.S. companies are fighting over millions of dollars in contracts for military equipment and training under a long-promised U.S. aid package.

......The economic downturn prompted the U.S. Congress to reduce the 2009 tranche of the Merida plan by 30 percent, approving just $300 million. In June, however, Obama signed a supplemental bill to channel an extra $420 million to Mexico, where drug killings are skyrocketing to unprecedented levels.

Five Bell helicopters that cost more than $50 million are the first major batch of equipment to be bought under the package but they have yet to land in Mexico.

Other big contracts will go to scanners to detect traces of drugs, secure communications systems and forensic tools.

A growing trend toward military outsourcing by the U.S. government has come under scrutiny in Iraq after Blackwater security guards were accused of killing civilians and a former Halliburton subsidiary was accused of overcharging by millions.

Some of the largest private security firms like Dyncorp, Northrop Grumman Corp and Blackwater, which has changed its name to Xe Services, declined to say if they were bidding on Merida contracts for equipment or training.

(more at link)

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Why aren't we hearing about this more?
:rant: