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Originally posted by WarBow
Hmmm. Isn't sending troops into a foreign country an open act of war?
Wonder what the official response will be. I mean, Mexico does have oil. We can't have an oil producing country instigating violence now can we?
Mexicans Protest Las Vegas Meeting
Marchers Carrying Mexican Flags Cry "Racism" -- Again
Challenging America
In a demonstration that would land Americans in jail in Mexico, some 100 protesters carrying Mexican flags are demonstrating against a meeting called to unite forces against illegal immigration. Photo at left was taken at about 12:45 pm Pacific on Sunday, May 29.
Immigration insanity: Mexicans protest, U.S. just sits there
Originally posted by CO Vet
Wonder when we're gonna finally have a firefight between our agents and the Mexican military protecting the drugrunners and illegal smugglers?
Originally posted by CLT1985
We should give the US Army the order Ready Aim Fire
Los Zetas, a notorious Gulf cartel hit squad formed by elite Mexican army deserters, is making an audacious pitch for new recruits by appealing to soldiers and other deserters from the Mexican army.
The bizarre recruiting campaign promises good pay, free food, medical care, cars, and even loans to army soldiers and defectors who join the ruthless drug cartel's elite band of hit men.
The group, which publically taunts the Mexican military with phone numbers for job seekers on large banners, has been instrumental in the nearly 100,000 desertions that have taken place in the past eight years.
Outrageous as it sounds, the cartel’s brash appeal is working. Many defectors who find it almost impossible to get legitimate employment without revealing their status as deserters, along with poorer Mexicans who can’t find work, are taking to the offer.
Cartels have long been known for showy displays designed to gain public support. Along the violence-savaged U.S.-Mexico border, and in other parts of the region where Mexico's fight against traffickers resembles a real war, the message is being received. Just 17 months after President Felipe Calderón ordered the army into drug hotspots, the smugglers have succeeded in traumatized Mexicans by creating confusion among civilians and the authorities.
Originally posted by Rook1545
reply to post by CO Vet
Not that this is a good thing, but when the news agencies put out a story about the letter agencies running ops in places like Iran and Syria, it is a good thing. I must be missing something here. When the US does it, it is all good, when someone else does it, we scream bloody murder from the mountaintops? I am not saying either is a good thing, but if you are going to support one nation doing it, you can't really decry another for the same thing.
Originally posted by Daedalus24
Keep in mind, anyone can get a military uniform, there are sites online where anyone could by full american digital bdu including hat and vest, and rank designations for both and division patches.