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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 826264" data-attributes="member: 12952">Mexico ambassador: “Our cartel leaders are businessmen, not terrorists” Tod RobbersonEditorial WriterI wanted so badly to include some other photos with this blog item.&nbsp; Our files are full of the most gruesome photos imaginable. There are&nbsp; dismembered corpses dumped on the sidewalk. There’s one of a mother and&nbsp; her child dead on the floor, their bodies bloodied and pockmarked by&nbsp; bullets. This one is the least offensive I could find while still making&nbsp; the point that Mexico’s drug cartels are terrorist organizations.In a letter to the editor today, Mexico’s ambassador, Arturo Sarukhan&nbsp; , comes to the defense of these mass murdering, torturing,&nbsp; dismembering, bombing, beheading, kidnapping and drug trafficking&nbsp; organizations, arguing that they are businessmen, not terrorists. Folks,&nbsp; we have a first here. You will not, until now, have seen any top&nbsp; Mexican official actually defending the cartels to this extent. But&nbsp; Sarukhan, taking issue with our editorial last week in defense of a bill&nbsp; before Congress to put Mexico’s six biggest cartels on the State&nbsp; Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, strongly&nbsp; disagrees.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 826264, member: 12952"] [B]Mexico ambassador: “Our cartel leaders are businessmen, not terrorists” Tod Robberson Editorial Writer[/B] I wanted so badly to include some other photos with this blog item. Our files are full of the most gruesome photos imaginable. There are dismembered corpses dumped on the sidewalk. There’s one of a mother and her child dead on the floor, their bodies bloodied and pockmarked by bullets. This one is the least offensive I could find while still making the point that Mexico’s drug cartels are terrorist organizations. In a letter to the editor today, Mexico’s ambassador, Arturo Sarukhan , comes to the defense of these mass murdering, torturing, dismembering, bombing, beheading, kidnapping and drug trafficking organizations, arguing that they are businessmen, not terrorists. Folks, we have a first here. You will not, until now, have seen any top Mexican official actually defending the cartels to this extent. But Sarukhan, taking issue with our editorial last week in defense of a bill before Congress to put Mexico’s six biggest cartels on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, strongly disagrees. [/QUOTE]

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