Quintessential Texan, just about as rude and boorish as Perry. Doesn't like the report of Barry McCaffrey and Bob Scales drawing attention to the war at the border, so he disses the two old warhorses.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Rotter Congressman attacks two ex-generals
Quintessential Texan, just about as rude and boorish as Perry. Doesn't like the report of Barry McCaffrey and Bob Scales drawing attention to the war at the border, so he disses the two old warhorses.
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It's war, right next door, in Mexico. The Obama administration doesn't seem to believe it, so maybe they will now.
Fat chance. After all, Mr Rot assures us all there is no problemo there, all peaches and cream. Anyone says anything else--he's heartless.
It's in these border counties that are very thinly populated, where the cartels have established routes of egress into Texas and transshipment points and houses. Ranchers and farmers are having their ranches violated, breaking into their homes, shooting at them. Ranchers are selling their property. Ranch hands are quitting out of fear or from being threatened by the cartels. It's really becoming increasingly out of hand.
Nothing to see here. Just move along.
There are 18,000 cartel members operating in Texas?
A full army division of gang members, the foot soldiers for cartel --
In Texas?
In Texas, and thousands more in American cities.
Ah, shucks. It's just one of those facts of life. Gotta learn to live with it, dontcha know?
Two years ago this was a criminal enterprise that was done for profit. Increasingly today it's just sheer, raw violence inflicted on the citizens of Texas, and that's why they're worried.
I don't like to overstate it, but your description, the 18,000 in Texas, the number of people around the city, that it doesn't differ that much in our mind to our thoughts and fears of Al Qaeda originally, having cells around. I mean, this is not flying a plane into a building or a dirty bomb, but this is drugs, which are killing people, and there's violence associated with it.
Not only drugs. Think of the transshipment, very dangerous people by the cartels across the border from places like Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and Ethiopia. They're coming across the border paid for by the cartels. Many of them get across without being registered. This is an insidious problem that goes beyond drugs. It deals in human trafficking, the war on terrorism, on and on and on. This is an American, not just a Texas problem.
Nah, says Rot. It's the fault on those generals for writing that report. The Zetas don't exist. And, if they do, they pose absolutely no threat to Texas, or the US as a whole. Just learn to live with them.
"SCALES: Yes. It was embarrassing. And what we wanted to do was to get our message across. We didn't want to go through some verbal sparring contest with Congress. Unfortunately that's what it devolved into. We wanted to tell the tale about Mexican narco-terrorists who have extended their reach into the United States, who have gang member infantrymen in 1,000 cities in this country, who are making somewhere between $28 billion and $36 billion off of this and are terrorist groups that are beginning to act less like criminals and more like insurgents, military insurgents. This is a very big problem out there.
VAN SUSTEREN: We have been down there. I was warned when I was down there over in South Texas. And, you know, I don't know how much is exaggerated by what people tell us. But it's hard not to believe it is a serious problem with an open border, a known civil war going on down there, the latest terrorism thing Iran thing we heard about last week. There is something there. I don't know the magnitude, but to show the disrespect of two people who had gone down there and studied with others is just extraordinary.
SCALES: Yes. We had one guy who testified with us, Dr. Mike Vickers, who was a veterinarian in a county of 7,000 citizens. Over the years he has autopsied or discovered over 600 dead people in his county. This is not just incidental. These are homicides. These are people who are left in the desert to die, many of them women sexually abused. This is not just incidental conflict. This is a very, very serious affair. And most of it is occurring in the unpopulated counties along the Texas border in those empty areas where the narco-terrorists are still able to invade our country.
VAN SUSTEREN: The congressmen who were, I think, unbelievably rude, one is from Laredo, one is from El Paso. Why did they do that do you think? What is their motive?"
What is their motive? Rotters need no stinking motive!
You got that down pat, AA.
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