As encouraging as these numbers are ... it seems to us we need to increase by 2.6 billion by 2007.

A giant problem for America. A small number of us, a little more than 1% of the American population addicted to illegal drugs, but taking a 35 billion dollar bite out of the health care system. Responsible for a third of all the AIDS in America and so on. It's just a tremendous nightmare. That problem needs to be addressed.

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.