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Monday, January 19, 2009

What Country could be Biggest Security Threat to US?

Indiscriminate kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill government agents.

This isn't Iraq or Pakistan. It's Mexico, which the U.S. government and a growing number of experts say is becoming one of the world's biggest security risks. - CBS NEWS Story

Retiring CIA chief Michael Hayden told reporters on Friday that that Mexico could rank alongside Iran as a challenge for Obama - perhaps a greater problem than Iraq - CBS News

...in November that Phoenix, Arizona has already become ground zero for an explosion in reported kidnappings and home invasions involving drug traffickers and criminals with connections to Mexican drug cartels. - CBS News

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff recently told The New York Times he ordered additional border security plans to be drawn up this summer as kidnappings and killings spilled into the U.S. - CBS News

I am trying to remember who all was behind the big outcry of building a fence to separate the US from Mexico? It seems like all of the people who were jumping and screaming at President Bush about his plan to build a wall/fence just didn't get it. Could President Bush, "the Worst President Ever" have been right on target with this one?

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