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Dubya is no Polk

Saturday, September 23, 2006


When Judicial Watch forced the Bush administration to come clean about 226 incursions by Mexican government personnel into America from 1996 to 2005, James Polk never looked better.
T
he watchdog organization used the Freedom of Information Act to get deeply disturbing reports about Mexican soldiers pointing rifles at the U.S. Border Patrol, shots being fired, unmarked helicopters invading U.S. air space and two boats carrying 2,717 pounds of marijuana escorted by a Mexican military boat.

Go online -- www.judicialwatch.org -- to read the damning indictment of the Bush administration.

A border dispute along the Rio Grande in 1846 caused President Polk to send Gen. Zachary Taylor. The war with Mexico started soon after. Polk also sent Gen. Winfield Scott. After leading the first major amphibious assault in history -- 10,000 men landed at Vera Cruz -- Gen. Scott captured Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847. His Marines then patrolled "the Halls of Montezuma."

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the two-year war.

Polk, a believer in America's Manifest Destiny, also had said Texas should be "re-annexed" since so many Americans lived there.

Today militants say Mexico's manifest destiny is the "reconquista" of the lands lost to America where so many Mexicans legally and illegally now live.

Dubya hides problems with Mexico. Polk solved them.