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03/03/2010: "Thanks a lot, George Bush"

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Thanks a lot, George Bush. So called “conservatives” cheered Bush on for 8 years as he attacked two countries which had never done anything to us, and were absolutely no threat to us.

Meanwhile, he let violent Mexican drug gangs take over our national parks and turn them into huge Marijuana farms, complete with heavily armed guards. Then “conservatives” nominated John McCain, Mr. Amnesty himself, to run against Obama.

Now they’re all going gaga over Sarah Palin, who has already made it clear she’s not going to do a damn thing about illegal immigration. She’s obsessed with the integrity of Israel’s borders, but our own country? Not so much.

What kind of nation allows violent foreign gangs to take over its national parks to cultivate drugs? A nation that’s on its last legs, that’s what kind.

Drug gangs taking over US public lands, San Francisco Chronicle, March 1, 2010
SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) �" Not far from Yosemite’s waterfalls and in the middle of California’s redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

Pot has been grown on public lands for decades, but Mexican traffickers have taken it to a whole new level: using armed guards and trip wires to safeguard sprawling plots that in some cases contain tens of thousands of plants offering a potential yield of more than 30 tons of pot a year.

“Just like the Mexicans took over the methamphetamine trade, they’ve gone to mega, monster gardens,” said Brent Wood, a supervisor for the California Department of Justice’s Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement. He said Mexican traffickers have “supersized” the marijuana trade.

Interviews conducted by The Associated Press with law enforcement officials across the country showed that Mexican gangs are largely responsible for a spike in large-scale marijuana farms over the last several years.

Local, state and federal agents found about a million more pot plants each year between 2004 and 2008, and authorities say an estimated 75 percent to 90 percent of the new marijuana farms can be linked to Mexican gangs.

In 2008 alone, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, police across the country confiscated or destroyed 7.6 million plants from about 20,000 outdoor plots. […]

The Sequoia National Forest in central California is covered in a patchwork of pot fields, most of which are hidden along mountain creeks and streams, far from hiking trails. It’s the same situation in the nearby Yosemite, Sequoia and Redwood national parks.

Even if they had the manpower to police the vast wilderness, authorities say terrain and weather conditions often keep them from finding the farms, except accidentally.

Many of the plots are encircled with crude explosives and are patrolled by guards armed with AK-47s who survey the perimeter from the ground and from perches high in the trees.