Marines find 72 bodies in northern Mexico

Welcome to Mexico!

We have beautiful beaches, cheap prices, and plenty of death squads!

Why not just blow up the whole country and start over?

They should have said "Mexican Marines" in the headline. For a moment I thought we sent an expeditionary force across the border or something.

Well, let's hope the cartels continue to rub each other out.

Hurrah for the NRA. With their help in keeping many weapons that have nothing to do with hunting or protection are getting a great supply of weapons into Mexico from the USA.

US arms sells have beat all prior years because the republicans and the NRA falsely accused Obama administration of planning to stop the production of weapons.

Also by keeping marijuana illegal, the cartels are going to push their product. Make marijuana legal and cartels will lose their influence and legal sales will rid Mexico of this problem. < :-)

adaydream at 12:09 AM JST - 26th August Hurrah for the NRA. With their help in keeping many weapons that have >nothing to do with hunting or protection are getting a great supply of >weapons into Mexico from the USA.

Can you substantiate that? I know of no connection between Mexico and the NRA apart from the NRA adopting the Mexican Metal Silhouette target shooting in the 1970s. Mexico has very strict gun laws and transportion of firearms into Mexico is extremely difficulr.

US arms sells have beat all prior years because the republicans and the >NRA falsely accused Obama administration of planning to stop the >production of weapons.

Don't see the relevance of legal firearms purchae numbers in the United States to the problems in Mexico.

Also by keeping marijuana illegal, the cartels are going to push their >product. Make marijuana legal and cartels will lose their influence and >legal sales will rid Mexico of this problem. < :-)

You go fly in a plane with the pilot buzzed. I'll sit it out.

OssanAmerica, The NRA has worked there buts off to legalize assault weapons. Assault weapons aren't needed for hunting or self protection. These weapons are being made in the good old USA. (damn we are exporting)

The drug dealers are buying the weapons by the 1000s in the US and shipped to Mexico, through New Mexico, Arizona and especially Texas.

How does legalizing pot make air travel unsafe? Smoking pilots? You need to be more afraid of drunk pilots. < :-)

The drug dealers are buying the weapons by the 1000s in the US and shipped to Mexico, through New Mexico, Arizona and especially Texas.

Yeah, thats the buzz, trouble is there is very little evidence to back that up. Still its the oft repeated claim, designed to once again place the blame for Mexicos problems on the US. No matter what happens, you know, somehow the US is always at fault.

adaydream at 03:56 AM JST - 26th August OssanAmerica, The NRA has worked there buts off to legalize assault >weapons. Assault weapons aren't needed for hunting or self protection. >These weapons are being made in the good old USA. (damn we are exporting)

Really? "Assault weapons" as used by the military and some law enforcement agencies are automatic full fire weapons. Civilian posession of such weapons is prohibited on a Federal level as well as just about every state in the Union. What the NRA did was to legalize the non-automitic, ie; semi-automatic versions of those guns. The reason being that they are no different from any semi-automatic hunting rifle, other than being "black" and "looking scary".

The drug dealers are buying the weapons by the 1000s in the US and >shipped to Mexico, through New Mexico, Arizona and especially Texas.

Interesting can you substantiate this? Exports of firearms are heavily regulated by the BATF on our side and by the Mexican governmernt on the other.

How does legalizing pot make air travel unsafe? Smoking pilots? You need >to be more afraid of drunk pilots. < :-)

I'm afraid of the drunk ones already. Don't need to add another reason.

"The drug dealers are buying the weapons by the 1000s"

So who cares if a buncha drug dealers and gangsters wanna shoot each other up ? The problem has nothing to do with weapons suppliers- it has a lot to do with the power vacuum created when Calderon declared all out war on the cartels. This recent lot of executions were against immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Brazil etc... imagine if American gangsters treated mexican immigrants in such a manner !

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97H22FO0&show_article=1

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE52R20O20090328

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/02/us.mexico.marijuana/index.html

Stop the weapons going into Mexico and legalize pot and you have stopped all gang action. < :-)

"Stop the weapons going into Mexico and legalize pot and you have stopped all gang action."

A Hash-Pipe dream ! Gangsters would simply upgrade to trafficking cocain, meth, and heroin !

Branded, I've seen how the $$BILLIONS$$ have stopped drug trafficking. Pump more $$Billions$$ and you'll get what? More dead bodies. < :-)

"Pump more $$Billions$$ and you'll get what? More dead bodies"

Yes ! More dead gangsters !!! I still don't see your rational behind legalizing marijuana... that alone will not stop gang activity ! You are going to have to legalize cocaine also- good luck with that one !

Branded, So your answer to this problem is...? How would you halt these killings? < :-)

The real problem, studiously avoided by most of U.S. leaders as well as Mr. Calderon, is economic. U.S. border with Mexico separates the greatest economic difference between nations in the world. Nowhere else in the world do people earn so much less than those in a neighboring country and the powerful magnet this reality creates will never be solved with the usual surrender solution. To address the economic forces that pull mostly good, hard working people, as well as vicious criminals, across U.S. borders we must talk more about money. You won’t hear Calderon talking about his country’s failure to create a viable middle class in Mexico because that might mean sacrifice by the wealthy class there. Instead, Mexico has built factories on their side of the US/Mexico border to steal away U.S. businesses and attract more Mexicans from the interior to our border.

Isn't it amazing how some posters out here can continually be critical but never can point at what their solution would be, you know Branded?

I've heard no suggestions from the right side of the conversation, only nos. < :-)