Senators: Obama border initiative good step, but insufficient

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration's initiative to deploy additional federal resources in the fight against rising drug-related violence along the Mexican border was criticized as insufficient in a Senate committee hearing Wednesday.


Sens. John McCain, left, and Joe Lieberman attend a committee hearing on Mexico border violence.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, said the administration's plan to send hundreds of extra federal agents and new crime-fighting equipment to the border "represents a significant step forward" but is not enough.

Mexican drug cartels, believed to be operating in more than 230 American cities "from Appalachia to Alaska," represent a "clear and present" danger to the United States, Lieberman said at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on border violence.

"I think you're going to need more resources to get this job done," he told Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The United States needs to "make life miserable" for the drug cartels so "life is better for us," he said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/25/senate.mexico/

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Guess who's back?

[msongs]

1. make drug users lives more miserable will help more using this logic

since US users are responsible for all this carnage in Mexico.

so why not just legalize pot, allow grow your own, and put a stop to a lot of this cartel business?

and btw I thought these senators were complaining Obama's budget was too big already.

Msongs

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. "Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, said the administration's plan to send hundreds of extra

extra federal agents and new crime-fighting equipment to the border "represents a significant step forward" but is not enough." That's what the chairman says. Now I would legalize weed for sure and would also consider other harder substances. Regulate the shit out of them if you must. Put these assholes out of business.

[bobburgster]

3. Sen. Joe Lieberman....

sucks pickles!

[Winterblues]

4. If you want to direct how things are done then run for President

D'Oh... I guess that didn't work out so well did it? I guess people just don't want your way of doing things, so maybe you need to shut up and let the President manage the nation's business.