Pubdate: Mon, 17 Aug 2009
Source: Windsor Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2009 The Windsor Star
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Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n787/a07.html
Author: Howard Wooldridge

SO HOW IS DRUG WAR BEING WON?

Re: U.S., Mexico winning drug war, Napolitano

What planet is U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
living on, when she states the U.S. and Mexico are winning the drug
war? My profession, police, has been slugging it out in the trenches
for 40 years now.

The results?

Drugs are cheaper, stronger and much easier for our children to
buy.

We had body counts in Vietnam to show we're winning. Napolitano now
uses how many kilograms and bullets seized.

Despite 40 million victories, Americans arrested on drug charges, we
live in a country saturated with drugs and drug dealers.

When will we in the U.S. and Canada become as wise as my grandparents
were in 1933 and repeal modern "Prohibition?"

Howard Wooldridge,

Adamstown, Md.
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