Talk:Mexican response to Hurricane Katrina

Armed Soldiers?
I marked as dubious the claims that the Mexican soldiers deployed in the US were armed. There is no citation given for this, and the only reference made to this that I could find is www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/080905troopsinvade.htm here] on PrisonPlanet.com, a website operated by Alex Jones, whose Wikipedia article says is known for his conspiracy theories. If this claim is to stay in the article, it needs to have a citation from a reputable source.--Tabun1015 15:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * On second thought, after looking through the page history, I decided to remove the info outright. The claims were added by an unregistered user with no citation, which casts doubt upon their veracity.--Tabun1015 16:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * We need a much more reliable source for something like that. It is very unlikely that Mexican soldiers were armed in American territory. ---CWY2190TC 18:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * If Mexican soldiers were on American territory and displaying the Mexican flag, then only a non-veteran would assume those soldiers were not armed. As a matter of tradition, all military units carry sufficient arms to render honors to foreign dignitaries, and as a practical matter, no military unit would have traveled to New Orleans at the time without arms as it was a place without the rule of law (yes, military commanders with general courts-martial authority and the ability to punish by death have to think about those kinds of things on movement, and they have staff officers to remind them of their responsibilities, so that they are not relieved of command for dereliction in the field). See contemporary reports of the National Guard entering New Orleans fully armed, where their commanding general had his troops point their weapons at the ground, as it was not a combat patrol but a relief column. In this case, the burden of proof falls on those who insist that the Mexican relief column was not armed. Hotfeba (talk) 01:32, 16 May 2009 (UTC)