Bush Seeks $500 Million for Mexican Police

Mac Johnson, at his sarcastic best:

President Bush this week asked Congress to approve a supplemental spending bill for $42.3 billion. The bill is intended to fund U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, in a remarkable expansion of the meaning of the words “U.S. military”, “Afghanistan” and “Iraq” the bill also includes $724 million to fund U.N. Peacekeeping operations in Darfur and $500 million for Mexican police to fight Mexican drug dealers.

This last item assumes that Mexican police and Mexican drug dealers are likely to be two separate groups. But the good news is that the $500 million is just a down payment -- part of a larger $1.4 billion aid package that Bush would like the Congress to pour down the Mexihole in the name of keeping America safe from all those drugs that somehow make it across our secure and orderly southern border

If the President wishes to protect American junkies from Mexican drugs, then might I suggest that there are other ways he could spend $500 million of the taxpayers’ money that may be marginally more effective than buying helicopters and Humvees for foreign police forces that have been repeatedly implicated in smuggling drugs in their helicopters and Humvees?...

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