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		<title>Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<title>And the Drug War</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[exactly - because of the war on drugs - what a success thats been, right!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Phil Childers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>chaszman...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree, however the world is a different place than it was 50 years ago. It is now so inter-twined economically in a global manner; that if the mango fields in Mexico have a drought, it affects the bottom line of grocers in New York and Texas. That is why you can no longer only view the USA as the protector of Individual Liberty for American Citizens. When the USA took their place as watchdogs and security for the world... your thinking and ideals must also adapt... Dr. Gp.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dr. G. Patino MD.,</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Re: Catchesthewind. ..</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am sorry, but I feel if you build a wall it will further alienate Latin America and then have them turn on us also. Why not concentrate on the actual issues at hand like; work visas, diplomacy and building bridges and not walls... Dr. Gp.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dr. G. Patino MD.,</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Border Fence; comment.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree with RRB. When has a wall or a fence kept out the undesirables? As a physician living in Mexico, I am amazed at the stories I read every day in the American tabloids. Do the Americans not see what is or has happened with the wall between the Palestinians and Israelis? Yes I see the true horrors of what is going on down here every day. But I recall growing up in the states in the 60's when riots and acts of terrorism were happening daily... what is the real difference? How do you stop this issue? I wish I knew, I see many innocent and many non-innocents losing their lives each week. Lost in the Confusion of seeking a safer place.... Dr. Gp.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dr. G. Patino MD.,</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>We have lost the war with Mexico</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Economically, politically, the United States has lost the War with Mexico and with other Central American and Northern South American countries. I lived in Encinitas California in the 1980's and I saw the door opened wide by the Regan-Kennedy Amnesty. Amnesty was granted but no funding was made for the other part of the bill--enforceme nt. A lot of South of the border miscreants/crim inals embedded in this country. A house next to mine became a drop house for drugs, human smuggling and prostitution. The neighborhood became the "wild west!" Local police said they could do nothing. Immigration said they had no resources to control the problem. An FBI agent was horrified, sympathetic, but could do nothing. This McCaffrey story is so far behind the curve it is sickening.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Kurt Olney</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Mr.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Beg my pardon, but when did Obama use U.S. troops on the behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood? Libya?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ryden</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Border Fence?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Actually worked pretty well. It kept barbarians out for couple thousands of years. The Ming dynasty wall worked especially well. It kept my Manchu Royal Army out until a traitor Han general opened a gate.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Darksbane</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mr. Simon, if you knew anything about the people involved you would realize the two groups are night and day apart! 90% or better americans grow organically, friendly to the environment, etc., so forth and so on - its the illegals that rip up forests and leave trash and freaking chemicals all over, polluting streams, etc., and resorting to violence. The reasons prop 19 didn't passs is because of the taxes and the worry that marlboro would come in and take over - thats why it didn't pass, coming from someone who's intimately involved. American's have always had respect for the land, people around them - it's the cartel ops that steal power, use chemicals to speed harvests, and generally use illegal labor to rig houses, etc. leaving hazards and all the other crap you read about. I've been in and around this scene since I was 13 and I know what I am talking about. NorCal, I couldn't agree more - why it needs to be legalized now, no more stupidity and lies by uncle sam.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Phil Childers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>NorCal growers</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Latino drug cartel growers have displaced the old hippy growers in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains. I've seen both abandoned growing locations and growers. Here is one specific location. Plumas National Forest, western slope, highway 162, forestry road D60, Little North Fork Campground. http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/plumas/recarea/?recid=11225 I was menaced by very aggressive Latino growers not far from the camping location. Casual campers will never find this site, its in a semi remote location and only locals or gold panners are aware that it even exists. And pot growers. The growers take a camp spot and setup a tent and place a few items on the picnic table then leave the camp as it is and hike to the grow location. They camp at the pot farm for about 4/5 days. After 5 days are up they return to little north fork campground, pack their gear and are replaced with a fresh crew by the next day.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>13times</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[But American growers - specifically the Emerald Triangle growers - voted to keep pot illegal. Why? Well if it was legal prices would be much lower. It was openly discussed in the Mendocino and Humboldt County papers during the run up to Prop 19. American growers do not have clean hands my friend.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>M. Simon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Setting Drug Policy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Now try drugsense.org and get the truth, not the governments doctored up versions in the above papers. You kill me, sir. hhats right, they caused no harm until prohibition and thats because then they became ILLEGAL!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Phil Childers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Because american growers, bro, if they are american, aren't out to kill, use forced labor or any of the other methods the mexicans use. Where have you been, most American growers won't touch or come near anthing to do with the mexican mafia - once your in you are in for life and no profits for you they all go to el jefe, bro. Know something about the subject before you spout rubbish - the emerald triangle for years has kept OUT the mafia at least from getting a foothold in their area! American pot growers are not even close to their mexican counterparts, dude. All the mexicans use the profits for marijuana to make more meth, cocaine and heroin and ship it across - the profit margins are way higher with meth, especially for them. You probably believed Anslinger about black people raping white women 4 days after smoking pot - yeah, I'm still tripping on how something like that can still stand in our laws, ridiculous!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Phil Childers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Setting Drug Policy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yes. Legal drugs have been tried in the US. And there was little harm from it until the prohibition of opiates and cocaine in 1914 and marijuana in 1937. How did the Republic survive with heroin an OVER THE COUNTER DRUG for 20 or 30 years? Why didn't the nation turn into a nation of heroin addicts? Why have opiate use rates remained in the 2% range since before prohibition? People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers. If you are not in pain opiates are rather unpleasant drugs. And the pain that is most prevalent for illegal opiate use is PTSD from child abuse. Look up "Dr. Lonnie Shavelson Heroin" for more on that.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>M. Simon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Uh. You didn't get my point. The profits of the cartels DEPENDS on their war. And why wouldn't American growers want a war with Mexican growers? The Zetas are aligned with government forces in Mexico - to reduce the competition from OTHER cartels. Why wouldn't American growers want similar "protection"?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>M. Simon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Setting Drug Policy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[For those who actually wonder about a 'free drug' society or decriminalizing drugs in America, and are willing to investigate, read these few links. It has been tried (in America and elsewhere), it was a GIGANTIC failure on all fronts. Drugs destroy the users and ...well just read the links. Some will never change their minds.. fine. But for those who WANT to know - and taxes? Ha! For every $1 of taxes collected from the sale of tobacco and alcohol, we incur $9 in state and federal health-care, criminal justice and social-service costs. Imagine the cost regarding drug use? http://www.drugwatch.org/Drug%20User%20Accountability%20International.htm http://www.sarnia.com/groups/antidrug/argument/myths.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304314404576411610933327334.html End]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Roger Dane</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["We have got to decide what is important to America", says the always pompous windbag. The United States exists to protect the individual liberty of American Citizens, and their property rights. Efforts to place other priorities than the security of the United States, and its unquestioned sovereignty, on the US government is to assert that non-Americans have a competing claim on the services provided and paid for by United States citizens. This is exactly what McCaffrey and his ilk assert.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>chaszman</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So why would the cartels like a war with Mexico? To increase profits? Or perhaps domestic growers want to reduce the competition from Mexico. Very little is as obvious as it seems. Are you an idiot? the cartels are already AT war with mexico - its the US they havent' attacked too much, yet! OMG you are one of those guys that supports the war on drugs - are you happy our goverment has made it possible for these guys to become the richest men in the world, or did you miss the article in times where the leader of one of the cartels, one of the richest men in the world, actually thanked obama for keeping up the attack on medical marijuana - keeps the profits up for him!!! Get with it people, get a mind of your own!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Phil Childers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Yes. A Wall with Mexico will work. But it will need to be 10,000 miles long - or longer to cover all our coastlines and the border with Canada. And it will have to be manned by guards with shoot to kill orders. 24/7/365. Welcome to East Germany Comrade. May I see your papers please? Could you explain your presence on the beach please? You know it is an unauthorized zone.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>M. Simon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Design Head</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government." - William Colby, former CIA Director, 1995 So why would the cartels like a war with Mexico? To increase profits? Or perhaps domestic growers want to reduce the competition from Mexico. Very little is as obvious as it seems.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>M. Simon</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Michael,If you do the Mexico border deal please touch base with Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa county, Arizona. He will give you excellent intel for your objective. Re the border wall. China tried it-it worked. Rome tried it in England,Hadrian s wall-it worked. We can build one the entire length of the southern border. It will work.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>catchesthewind</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>End the war on drugs, rebuild the homeland</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[End the war on drugs, period. It is long lost, and it is what is fueling the whole crisis. Regarding drugs, let people decide for themselves. Some people will overdo it, others will try it and make up their own minds. And I am not worried about my young son becoming a junkie if heroin or crack is legal - I'd rather he be able to travel safely in this hemisphere. As far as a wall goes, I think that the scale of the border eludes most people. Ladders and shovels are cheap, and we are talking about over a thousand miles of rugged desert washes, and badlands. We can't even secure the few miles around Tijuana. The wall mentality is what gives us multi-billion non-solutions like Boeing's failed electronic observation towers or drones. Just more fat insider contracts for the military industrialists.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Zeeko</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Israel</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Works pretty good for them. How often do you hear about suicide bombers these days? Not nearly as often as you did ten years ago. While I'm thinking about it, the Berlin Wall worked pretty well also.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Border Patrol</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[All of our troops should be stationed along our borders and only leave our border to destroy genocidal jihadists. U.S. troops are NOT the toys of the Muslim Brotherhood's global jihad and should not be used as such by President Obama.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>I remember...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When McCaffrey was the CG of the 24th ID. He wanted us to start doing a IPB (Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield) for the South West US. He wanted to send armed troops there... I don't know who put the kybosh on that plan, but it wasn't long before someone came to their senses! This was well before the Marines killed Esequiel Hernandez by the way.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BSJ</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Fast &amp; Furious/ATF link to border violence</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I hope you actually do cover Fast & Furious. We have barely any high profile people covering it. We welcome you to report on the border violence. Here is a thread covering Fast & Furious since January 2011. http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1145029_ATF_Gunwalker_p256__tentative_1_24_12_Hearing_w_Holder__updates__ATFReport_on_twitter.html&page=1]]></description>
			<dc:creator>nolocontendere</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The idiotic War on Drugs, is the reason for the disaster in Mexico and the US.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tom Barry</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[And a sane drug policy would end the whole thing overnight. Prostitution and bootleg DVDs don't generate enough revenue to fund this kind of violence. Clean, regulated drug production and treatment for addicts would be more humane, more friendly towards civil rights at home, and much less financially wasteful. Didn't we learn our lesson with Prohibition? Not yet, apparently.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Brock</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>How many Americans</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[are killed every year by other Americans, here at home? How many Americans live in fear of American gangs and criminals? Can you imagine the level of domestic peace and safety we could create with a tenth of the treasure, effort, and sacrifice thrown down the drains of the middle east? As long as crime happens mainly to the powerless, the powerful won't address it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>staghounds</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Mr</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mike....Fear not. We'll follow your moves even if you get a girl scout cookie route! Please stay well.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Don Ryan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>sailor</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[you mean we have that many Mexican gangs and members in the US and we aren't at war with these drug dealers yet what are we waiting for, just let them infitrate the US and take over. We better get busy!! :-?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>brent</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Rarefied Air (cont)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't like Napalitano but just because McCaffrey "seems" to compliment her doesn't mean he trusts her (any more than I) and indeed he indicates more should be accomplished. I do not know McCaffrey personally but at least a lot of his commentary is accurate numerically and seems, as first steps go, to be logical and worth hearing. We have a faltering morality in this country. It has negative effects on all LE from any local, state or Fed organization. We have a population that is not well enough educated to KNOW what is being said in much of what they hear. All of that has to be addressed. We cannot keep a Democratic Republic without education and 'brains' on drugs refuse to be educated. That drug can be a narcotic or power/prestige/ position. We need a solid wall, Less expensive education, to resist the drug insurgency, more attention paid to America and less overseas! We can do this by cleaning political house, reforming oversight & regulations. By the People!!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Roger Dane</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Rarefied Air</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["Your Man..." Well, that I doubt as most of the reports I've read are well balanced. McCaffrey's talk was well pointed but perhaps viewed from the 'armchair' aspect of higher echelon leadership. As Patton planned, his men did die and the old saying was "Old blood and guts... his guts, our blood." On and on the disparity goes with foot soldiers and 'bars' or suits or whatever sometimes disparaging title is used to address the viewpoints from top to bottom. My son is a Border Patrol agent. There is reported corruption and there are dedicated agents. Called 'human nature' and will most probably remain. Same about legalizing marijuana (which medically has a much longer lasting and deeper neuro effect than alcohol but hey - no question that it is a 'starter' drug however. And go ahead, legalize all drugs. The next day a designer will craft something wilder and more exotic and on and on... called 'human nature.') (cont)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Roger Dane</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>citizen</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It is really revolting to see how the world government advocates have infiltrated the top brass of our military. They care not about loosing our sovereinty, just MONEY. He probably would endorce the recent NDAA bill that is a declaration of war on the American People. We must defeat the world goverment traders to regain our freedom. Of course this is just a consperacy theory, isn't it? Your either a trader to the US or against world government. It's as simple as that. Pease and freedom, Ed Kilgour.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Ed Kilgour</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This war on pot, invented at the end of prohibition to keep the untouchables employed, has been failing for 70odd years. When is the government going to wise up? As a NY State Cop said, I'd rather have my kids smoke pot than drink alcohol, because I've never had a pothead threaten my life.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>xoxoxoBruce</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Border Fence?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Please refresh my memory. When has a fence ever kept out undesirables or enemies. The Great Wall of China and the Maginot Line are 2 examples of the pitiful failure of that strategy. Just another black hole for tax money...a twin to the black hole the 'war on drugs' has been.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RRB</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Gen McCaffrey's speedh</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[He forgot the part about how focusing the "war on drugs" where it should be focused - on the cartels smuggling them in, not on innocent people who are citizens trying to keep themselves healthy without resorting to being addicted to morphine. The DEA needs to grow some balls and focus on the real problem - pot,meth, cocaine and heroin smuggling and production and not medical marijuana states and dispensarys. Well, I guess if I were a dea agent I'd rather it be a mom and dad american citizen who I put in jail than dangerous thugs and killers who don't hesitate to use violence. It jsut cracks me up that 99% of this problem could be resolved by the US legalizing marijuana alone! And yet, the president and senators keep lining the drug lords pockets, no wonder they now rank among the richest in the world. Mcaffrey should have ended that when he had the chance - instead he helps perpetuate the crime, keeping all them in jobs and creating bigger demand. nice racket they are in!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Phil Childers</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>IGNORANCE IS DANGEROUS</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[McCaffrey apparently has not seen or read the news. DOJ hear Holder was running guns into Mexico to the Cartels The FBI was "Sanitizing" records so these people could buy the guns going to Mexico.. One of their Confidential Informants was probably the one who shot and killed BP Agent Brian Terry The DEA was laundering money for the cartels (Stated purpose--To track the money) Napolitano was ATTY GENL for Arizona, then Governor. She vetoed every effort to stem the flow of Illegals McCaffrey needs to be a ground trooper in Pinal County foe one week. He'd probably get his rose colored glasses broken]]></description>
			<dc:creator>FRMR LEO</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[That was an amazingly well reasoned speech. My only addition is that we need to stress more strongly the "war on drugs" as a failure And the catalyst to the types of power struggles occuring at this level.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>SomeSockPuppet</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>RE: Mexico: A Very Interesting Talk by General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Whatever happened to all those guns that the US government was sending to Mexico and blaming on the American people? Do you remember what you and your boy Berry were saying about that? McCaffery may be your man but he's dishonest and a bureaucrat at heart. Napolitano's DHS is the end of freedom in the US and she's done NOTHING to stop what's happening on the border and in fact has made it worse.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>EN</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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