The Mexican War

Most of the focus is on the Iraq front, but there is also a war going on on our Southern border with Mexico and most of the fighting is being waged by forces in Mexico. The newly elected President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, has sent 3000 Mexican troops to the border town of Tijuana to confront drug traffickers who have been responsible for such crimes as killing 300 people in the past year. This pressure has caused the gangs to move to other places and this fact has been attributed to the recent attack on our National Guard who were patrolling the border in the Tucson area. Since the lame brained Bush administration sent the Guard down to the border with orders not to carry guns or defend itself, the troops had to retreat when attacked and now the National Guard is not even allowed to say whether or not our troops were fired upon. Common sense suggests that if they weren't shot at they wouldn't have retreated. This is just another example of idiotic rules of engagement forced on our military by the Bush administration.