Mexico and CNN Blame U.S. Guns for Drug Wars!

A follow up http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/700-million-to-mexico.html to Hillary's trip to Mexico where she blamed the U.S. for Mexico's Drug war and Mexico receiving $700 taxpayer dollars this year, the Mainstream Media continues their Blame America biase in the article below.

Violent Americans with their guns. CNN hit that note again and again, and emphasized U.S. responsibility for the violence.

International Correspondent Michael Ware on February 26: “But let's not forget, this whole war is fueled, first by America's demand for illicit drugs; and, secondly, it's being fought with American weapons that have been smuggled back over the border.”

John Roberts on Feb. 26 “You got a big complaint from the Mexican government is the traffic going the other way. That there's plenty of American money going down to Mexico, plenty of American weapons being bought by straw purchasers and border states are also being funneled south.”

Kiran Chetry on Feb. 27: “The U.S. is also a major source for powerful weapons being used by Mexican drug cartels. In fact, the ATF is estimating that 90 percent of weapons confiscated in Mexico are smuggled in from the U.S.”

Randi Kaye on Feb. 28: “And from what I understand, weapons purchased or stolen in the United States accounted for 95 percent of Mexico's drug-related deaths. Now this is a huge problem for both sides of the borders. Is anything being done about that?”

Don Lemon on March 7: “So, obviously, we know there's a problem. How much -- how much does America bear responsibility for their problem when it comes to drugs going here and possibly weapons being used in Mexico for this violence?”

Homeland Security Correspondent Jeanne Meserve on March 11: “Is the U.S. doing enough to stop the violence and drugs from coming north to the U.S.?”

Michael Ware on March 14: “It's an insurgency that America is fueling with demand for drugs and with the guns with which that insurgency is being fought.”

On CNN, only Lou Dobbs has been consistently skeptical of the Mexican and Obama Administration’s claims.
CNN also left an important point out of all its reporting on the Mexican violence – a point that the NRA’s Cox clearly made in his testimony. Gun control doesn’t work to stop crime. Just look at places that have very strict gun regulation. Like … Mexico.

Read entire article here http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2009/20090318143344.aspx