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.

Yes, they are very violent criminal organizations, he says. But "they pursue a single goal. They want to maximize their profits and do what most business do: hostile takeovers and pursue mergers and acquisitions."

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona authorities say they've seized more than 3,600 pounds of marijuana from a commercial truck hauling produce from Nogales to Phoenix.

A state Department of Public Safety highway patrol officer stopped the truck pulling a box trailer for an equipment violation last Thursday on Interstate 19.

The DPS says the driver was found to be unlicensed to operate a commercial vehicle. An inspection of the truck turned up 152 bundles of marijuana in a hidden compartment.

DPS says the 3,616 pounds of marijuana has an estimated street value of $1.2 million.

Santa Cruz County officials are handling the investigation. Information on the truck driver hasn't been released yet.

So it's the "gunshow loophole" that so many guns fell into the cartels hands huh?

No specific numbers on how many of those guns "recovered in Mexico and traced back to the United States" were, in fact, military purchases, but the State Department cables indicate a portion of the fewer than 12 percent of the traceable weapons actually came from the United States in gun shop/individual type purchases. Remember, that's not 12 percent of the tens of thousands of weapons recovered - it's only 12 percent of the weapons recovered that were traceable. It's nowhere near the 12 percent figure that has been misquoted and used as evidence of the United State's "horrific" problem of illegal gun sales.

Pretty soon the whole thing will be a no go