SASABE, Mexico (AP) - Mexican druglords are taking over the business of smuggling migrants into the United States, using them as human decoys to divert authorities from billions of dollars in cocaine shipments across the same border.

U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that drug traffickers, in response to a U.S. border crackdown, have seized control of the routes they once shared with human smugglers and in the process are transforming themselves into more diversified crime syndicates.

The really big question that I want answered is this, IF we know it’s going on, why don’t we have even more National Guard troops on the border shutting this mess down?? Is the war in Iraq placing our own nation in jeopardy?? If it is then WHY are we placing the needs of Iraq above our own??

The drug gangs get protection money from the migrants and then effectively use them to clear the trail for the flow of drugs.

Undocumented aliens are used “to maneuver where they want us or don’t want us to be,” said Alonzo Pena, chief of investigations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona.

And again I say, IF we know all of this, and we DO, why aren’t we doing whatever it takes to stop it?? Can anyone answer that?? Why does Mr. Bush continue to ignore the NEEDS of this nation and put the people of Iraq above his own??

And why does Mr. Bush put the care and well being of the illegal invaders above the well being of the American people?? I can’t understand that one, not in the slightest…

“We have been able to seal many of the drug routes by adding technology and more agents,” Soto said. “We’re seeing a tremendous amount of drugs being seized.”

We must seal more than just the drug routes being used, our borders should be absolutely sovereign and inviolate, there should be no question as to where the border is nor what the resulting crossing of that border will incur…  

Once upon a time, in a world far, far away, to cross the border of another nation illegally was considered an international incident, and to do so while armed was considered to be an act of war and was dealt with appropriately…

Can we get back to that time again??

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Druglords Seize People-Smuggling Routes

What follows below is an exact copy of the email I just sent to NZ Bear, the proprietor of TTLB, The Truth Laid Bear and the Eco-System… Please feel free to comment on this if you will and let this guy know how YOU feel about the TTLB system and how well it’s working for you… Fred

NZ Bear,

I am about to blast you ALL OVER the blogosphere, and you can’t say you weren’t warned previously…

Your so-called Eco-System and excuses for it’s malfunctions and ignoring people when they try to contact you has gone on for long enough, trouble tickets are a joke too, they get ignored right along with the emails…

My personal blog, TexasFred, went from #145, which is about right, to #45 to #42 to #30 to #58,956 in the course of 1 stinking week…

I know people that are all but begging you to get them on the TTLB and you won’t even show them the decency of a response and after they have submitted their blogs, they never show up, you never make a post on YOUR blog concerning the failures of TTLB, you never send a mass email to the members to let them know that your system is a failure, you are NOT tending to business and for that, there is no excuse…

No one asked you to build TTLB, no one held a gun to your head and demanded that you make this one of the best ranking services that ever was, you did it, on your own, and then you just threw it away, at least that’s MY opinion…

I am not sure WHY you are letting people down the way you are, surely it’s not because of your less than stellar endeavor called The Victory Caucus…

NZ, this email is going out to over 250 blog OWNERS and is going to be posted on my blog, I am fed up with the crap, I have taken everything connected to you or your so-called Eco-System OFF of the TexasFred Blog and the Reject the U.N. Blog as well, and that’s funny too, the U.N. Blog is Ranked #6 on your system…

Dude, you need to unscrew your head and get your shit together, once upon a time you had something really great, a worthwhile service, right up til the time you decided to do the New and Improved thing..

To my readers, if you’ve had an issue with TTLB, if you’ve tried to contact him and been ignored, if you’ve seen your blog not show up or do weird things while ON his service, PLEASE make a comment on my blog so that he can see exactly what I am talking about, provided he’s not so rude as to ignore this email too…

It is my belief that if you’re going to offer a service such as TTLB, you need to either have the whereto to keep it running correctly or the intestinal fortitude to can it, tell people you’ve canned it, and then move on…

What say YOU the bloggers??

Sincerely,
TexasFred

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will not support a war spending bill that punishes the Iraqi government for failing to meet benchmarks for progress, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.

Rice’s comments cast fresh doubt on a potential compromise between the Democratic-led Congress and the White House in getting money to U.S. troops.

Didn’t Mr. Bush and the Sec/Def both tell us, as well as Iraq and the entire world, that the U.S. commitment to Iraq is NOT open ended?? I seem to distinctly remember him saying that the Iraqis must show progress of their own if they want us to stay… Yes, they did, I had to refresh my memory as to when and where but it was fairly recent as indicated Here , Here and Here

He said disagreeing with him over the war — as many in the room do — does not mean “you don’t share the same sense of patriotism I do.”

“You can get that thought out of your mind, if that’s what some believe,” the president said. “These are tough times, but there’s no doubt in my mind that you want to secure this homeland as much as I do.”

Uh, Mr. President, I, as well as most Conservative already know that, but could you do us a favor?? Pass that on to a certain group that we refer to as ‘Bush Bots’?? Especially one Army wife in particular?? She really believes that anyone that disagrees with you is the Devil incarnate, she told me my Teddy Roosevelt quote at the top of my blog was an effort to twist things to MY way, I mean, you know better, and so do most people, but could ya drop her and her 3 or 4 buddies a note and tell em it’s OK and they don’t have to use covert means to try and destroy someones blog?? Please?? Just askin’…

“I listened to many members here, I listened to members of my own party, I listened to the military and came up with a plan that I genuinely believe has the best of succeeding,” the president said.

‘And after listening to all those people I decided to do it MY way, since I’m the decider and all, and since there’s not a damn thing any of y’all can do, I’m a ‘lame duck’, what are you gonna do, not re-elect me?’ would likely be a lot closer to what the real thought process was…

What this all boils down to is partisan politics, and it’s being used to play with the lives of American troops, and that’s not right, no matter who is doing it…

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Rice: Bush Would Oppose Iraq Benchmarks