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The Michigan Messenger: McCain calls expensive cocaine a foreign policy victory

  • Minehaha Forman · 1 year ago
    Incredible Great story, Eartha. The point that if drugs cost more there will be less crime is absurd. More crime is, in fact, what will ensue. People hooked on these drugs aren't gonna say, "Oh, I guess I can't afford cocaine anymore..." This whole thing is ridiculous.
  • phikapbob · 1 year ago
    on the heels of this? As the World Health Organization reveals this week that the US leads the globe in drug use?


    "The survey of 54,000 people in 17 countries found that 16 percent of people in the United States had used cocaine in their lifetimes -- far higher than the next highest rate, found in New Zealand, where 4.3 percent of people reported having used cocaine."


    The strategy is working?  Look around your office - at least 3 of every 20 people has used cocaine.  If the strategy is to fleece the taxpayers and line the pockets of the criminal-industrial complex, then yes - Mission Accomplished!


    At what point to conservatives' heads explode from the conundrum: it is conservative to stop funding government programs that don't produce results, yet they can't bring themselves to go "soft" on crime.

  • beaware · 1 year ago
    drivin' that train, high on cocaine... I wouldn't rely on stats too much phikabob, too easy to juke. I'd probably put the percentage higher for American's usage anyways. You find out how to pump conservative's heads till they pop, and I'll loan my arms! I don't buy mccain's pow tale, I don't buy his treatment of his wife,(mine would pour battery acid in my ear while I slept if I called Her what mccain calls his wife in public, and I'd deserve it!), I don't buy the bs trip to Colombia-and the story of the presidential candidate being freed w/the american 'contractors" is highly suspect, I don't buy karl rove's little minion helping mccain's campaign. the only difference between bush and mccain, is that the NVA kept mccain cooled off for a while. Songbird is a name bandied about in reference to Powerline John. these bastards will lie when the truth would suit.
  • LoRayne Apo-Joynt · 1 year ago
    A lot going on that the media ignores Was McCain acting as Bush's bagman?


    Did the money that traded hands actually have much to do with the hostages, or were they a convenient tool?  Was the money really for other services rendered?


    Note the emphasis on plural: services.


    And I won't even mention the sticky business of crashed planes carrying illicit drug cargo for which the U.S., Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia have difficulty agreeing on ownership.


    It would be nice if the mainstream media ever sifted through this stuff.