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2009-04-22 Great White North

Border comments spark diplomatic kerfuffle

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-04-22 12:06|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Christ, she makes Ridge and Chertoff look like Washington and Jefferson...

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-22 13:23|| 2009-04-22 13:23|| Front Page Top

#2 OK, no more dam talkin without the dam teleprompter...

Posted by Obama 2009-04-22 13:23|| 2009-04-22 13:23|| Front Page Top

#3 While not the 9-11 terrorists, others HAVE crossed from Canada, like the LAX would-be bomber. There are a few radicals in Toronto and those with UK passports can freely travel without the attention the Mexican border gets. If she caused a diplomatic scuffle with a few Canuckstan libs, more power to her. I was about to write her off as completely imcompetent.

Posted by Thealing Borgia 122 2009-04-22 16:14|| 2009-04-22 16:14|| Front Page Top

#4 The Border For Dummies
Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.

In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that "suspected or known terrorists" have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack.

All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked.

Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: "I can't talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here's the future. The future is we have borders."

Just what does that mean, exactly?

Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Napolitano equated Canada's border to Mexico's, suggesting they deserved the same treatment. Mexico is engulfed in a drug war that left more than 5,000 dead last year, and which is spawning a spillover kidnapping epidemic in Arizona. So many Mexicans enter the United States illegally that a multi-billion-dollar barrier has been built from Texas to California to keep them out.

In Canada, on the other hand, the main problem is congestion resulting from cross-border trade. Not quite the same thing, is it?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-04-22 16:21|| 2009-04-22 16:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe her briefing contained some mistranslated Canadian. That's what they speak up there, right?

Posted by xbalanke 2009-04-22 16:43|| 2009-04-22 16:43|| Front Page Top

#6 thealing is right if not for one of OUR border guards part of LAX would be missing

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-04-22 17:37|| 2009-04-22 17:37|| Front Page Top

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