Top Army official suggests U.S. troops might be needed in Mexico to combat an "insurgency"!

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Army official suggests U.S. troops might be needed in Mexico
By Matthew D. LaPlante
February 7, 2011

Fretting over a scenario in which armed U.S. soldiers could be called to the border — or even over it — to hold back lawlessness and violence, Undersecretary of the Army Joseph Westphal invoked a contentious word to describe Mexico’s problem with drug cartels: He called it an “insurgency.”

“As all of you know, there is a form of insurgency in Mexico with the drug cartels that’s right on our border.” “This isn’t just about drugs and about illegal immigrants,” he said. “This is about, potentially, a takeover of a government by individuals who are corrupt.”

Westfall — who said he was expressing a personal opinion, but one he had shared with the White House — said he didn’t want to ever see a situation in which “armed and fighting” American soldiers are sent to combat an insurgency “on our border, in violation of our Constitution, or to have to send them across the border.”

Claudio Holzner, an assistant professor in the University of Utah’s departments of political science and Latin American studies, said Westphal’s words were “incendiary.”

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51207681-76/mexico-westphal-army-drug.html.csp#

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1. Why can't Mexico's corrupt individuals buy their government like ours do?

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2. They don't have as much money as Wall Street?

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3. They're getting close

Drug business almost as profitable as US taxpayer bailouts.