Thread: Salon.com asks: 'Mexican troops in San Antonio? Why?'

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Salon.com asks: 'Mexican troops in San Antonio? Why?'

Salon | September 12 2005

The New York Times is out this morning with an exhaustive, detailed look at how, in the face of Hurricane Katrina, the "federal federal government failed to fulfill the pledge it made after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to face domestic threats as a unified, seamless force." It's a must-read, of course, and it's important to connect the dots in the way the Times has. That having been said, it's the smaller, more anecdotal stories of outrage that are likely to linger longer in the minds of most Americans.

We reported on one last week: the one about all those firefighters FEMA requested from around the country and then assigned -- for day after day after day -- to an Atlanta hotel while people were dying in New Orleans. Today, Carlos Guerra brings us another.

In his column in the San Antonio Express-News, Guerra says that Mexico responded to Katrina by sending 195 people trained in disaster medicine. They arrived Thursday with 47 vehicles, three huge field kitchens and portable emergency water treatment equipment -- enough to provide clean water and three meals a day for 7,000 people for 20 days. And the federal government has assigned them to . . . San Antonio, Texas.

Guerra tried to find out why. As he points out, San Antonio has plenty of perfectly potable water, and the evacuees who have arrived in the city have been provided hot meals from the start. Why not send the Mexican specialists to a place without clean water, a place where their services might actually be needed? "Good question," a FEMA press officer told Guerra before referring him to the State Department. A State Department spokesman referred Guerra to a State Department press briefing at which another State Department spokesman said questions about the Mexican workers should be directed to any of several other government agencies, including FEMA. "Left Hand, let me introduce you to Right Hand," Guerra writes. "You should talk before you embarrass us even more."

"Left Hand, let me introduce you to Right Hand," Guerra writes. "You should talk before you embarrass us even more."

Quote of the century. I might even make it my tagline.

I guess you all haven't seen the latest video of Bush In Gulfport Mississippi. I hope see it. It has Bush with Mexican Marina's behind him.

NO

Originally Posted by Scubayons

I guess you all haven't seen the latest video of Bush In Gulfport Mississippi. I hope see it. It has Bush with Mexican Marina's behind him.

I am telling you... they are his new body gaurds... duh

So where is the video of those Mex troops in San Antonio?

Is anybody keeping tabs on them?

Aren't there some Minutemen in Texas who could be taking pictures of their positions and videos of what they are doing?


Someone should be tracking their every move.



What the hell are they doing there exactly?

Are they infiltrating into the population, or does it look like they are setting up to stay forever?


-pa

Phoenixashes, you took the thoughts right out of my head. I've tried very hard tonight to find some piece of news somewhere on them and I cannot.
I did actually find one little picture. There were four of them picking up parts of a tree.

I'll tell you they looked so out of shape!! Seriously. They didn't look to be in near the shape of American troops. Too many siestas....when they should have been patroling their border

I'll try to get the link of that little picture for you. BUT, where are all the others I think we have a right to know.

Here is the link. It's a small picture tucked away in Mexico City News.

http://www.hurricanereport.com/

Originally Posted by phoenixashes

So where is the video of those Mex troops in San Antonio ?

Is anybody keeping tabs on them?

Aren't there some Minutemen in Texas who could be taking pictures of their positions and videos of what they are doing?


Someone should be tracking their every move.



What the hell are they doing there exactly?

Are they infiltrating into the population, or does it look like they are setting up to stay forever?


-pa

I don't think there in San Antonio. Here is Bush's speech yesterday from GulfPort Miss.


President Visits School in Gulfport, Mississippi
28th Street Elementary School
Gulfport, Mississippi


In Focus: Hurricane Relief


2:06 P.M. CDT

THE PRESIDENT: First of all, I want to thank the school principal for her hospitality. It's interesting, you know, she said she lost her school and lost her house, but I told her she hadn't lost her smile or her will to succeed.

Behind us we've got U.S. troops and Mexican troops working together to help get this school up and running. The Superintendent of Schools here in the region tells me that they're trying to have everybody back in school by the end of October. And that's part of what you're beginning to see here in Mississippi. This country is beginning to rebuild and lives are starting over.

I thank the Governor and the Congressman for their hospitality here. And, Mayor, thank you, sir. You've been in office for how long? Four months?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... 912-2.html