“Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year
By on Sep 3rd, 2006 at 11:43 am
“Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year
has reached the highest levels ever recorded, showing an increase of almost 50 percent from last year,” the U.N. announced yesterday, describing the figures as “alarming” and “very bad news.”
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Georgie’s addiction has grown THAT big?! Ouch!
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:50 amYes and America is smuggling the stuff into Europe via its airbases and selling at rock bottom prices , even kids with their dinner money can afford this horrible stuff …STOP IT AT ONCE
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:50 amPerfect place to send Rush “The Oxymoron” Limbaugh last year.
Speaking of Rush and right wing radio pundits: Thank you for listening to WGOP, “all fascism, all the time.” Frank Rich tears Rummy a new one for his appeasement comments in today’s column. Be there or be square.
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:53 amHey this whole story is a lie, the US has total control over Afghanistan and would NEVER allow the Taliban and Al Queda the largest opium crop ever to sell and raise money to buy arms to kill Americans./sarcasm
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:59 am“Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year has reached the highest levels ever recorded”
The only time a Bush business venture has actually turned a profit. /snark
off subject, I just got back from my family reunion, in East Texas. One thing that has changed this year is that even the most rabid Bush supporters from last year were openly critical of Bush and republicans and were stating they were voting ( gasp!!) Democrat this election.
The republicans are losing their base, people are starting to become imune to the koolaide.
My “One nation, under survailance ” Bumpersticker on my truck was a hit as well.
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:13 pmthe warrantless taps and the court declaring them unconstitutional was one of the most talked about issue, behind Iraq, supprisingly
Wayne – I live in the Dallas area and all the repugnuts I know who used to be such Bush hardliners are voting for Kinky for governor. They are so sick of Rick Perry, Tom Delay, and the lot of them. They cannot bring themselves to vote for a democrat but they will not vote republican.
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:33 pmHeard a story the other day an Army recruiter was outside a school for young kids and says would you like to recruit for the Marines the Kid say No way , so the Recruiter said you want to buy some heroin instead then ????……
September 3rd, 2006 at 12:33 pmHeroin – the perfect drug for the crime-syndicate-military-industrial-complex – it’s light and it’s white.
September 3rd, 2006 at 1:43 pmI live in southeast Texas, near Houston, and the only Bush bumper stickers I see now are huge ones painted on the hoods of cars as if to say – please vote for him he must be right, cause he’s one of us – except he’s not
September 3rd, 2006 at 1:45 pmYou can bet your bottom dollar that many, many amurkan authorities at many levels are involved, right now, in the heroin trade.
It is too good a deal for them to pass up. The CIA is helping for sure. They love the money that illegal drugs bring in. They use the money for the black operations.
September 3rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm10/They use the money for the black operations.
Unfortunately many school children spend their dinner money on this drug …..But thats OK so long as the profit goes into Black ops ……..get real
When Karzai first got elected he said it was OK for the farmers to produce poppies so they voted for him ………what a stupid policy that was … In the UK its $20 a half gram pure stuff ……….Its killing people left right and centre……….. Oh but thats OK so long as the profit is used by USA black ops
Afghanistan was much better off under the taliban at least they and Bin Laden stopped production ……….Bin Laden is dead now so time to leave eh……….
September 3rd, 2006 at 3:41 pmGood news from Afghanistan
NATO: 200 Taliban Killed
By NOOR KHAN, Associated Press Writer
PASHMUL, Afghanistan – Warplanes and artillery pounded Taliban fighters hiding in orchards Sunday during a big Afghan- NATO offensive that the alliance said killed more than 200 militants in its first two days.
If the estimate is confirmed, the battle would be one of the deadliest since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime five years ago. An Associated Press reporter who traveled to Pashmul saw warplanes drop five bombs within about 20 minutes on orchards where militants were believed hiding. The reporter was about 300 yards away.
September 3rd, 2006 at 4:19 pm#13 – yeah, that’s why Afghanistan’s Opium harvest is the largest in years because the Americans have such great control of the country that the Taliban CAN’T grow bumper crops of the drug…no wait, that explanation doesn’t work. I guess the Taliban would have to be in control to grow bumper crops of opium…so I guess stories of killing 200 Taliban are just more bullcrap. Believed by gullible fools who can’t think their way out of a paper bag.
September 3rd, 2006 at 4:56 pm“Mission Accomplished”
BP (Bush Pushers) posts record profits!
September 3rd, 2006 at 6:12 pmYo Exley why aren’t they bombing the crops instead of the Opium fields? Oh yeh almost forgot, the golden egg thing..we will probably come to find out bush killed two hundred field workers..
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off subject, I just got back from my family reunion, in East Texas. One thing that has changed this year is that even the most rabid Bush supporters from last year were openly critical of Bush and republicans and were stating they were voting ( gasp!!) Democrat this election.
Yuppm, there hasn’t been any bush stickers around for a long time, To listen to the media you would think Texas, where I live, is chock full of fundamentalist redneck hilbillies when it’s not. Sure know a few ‘rednecks’, but even those guys are tired of Bush, they tend to see the brush clearer as a visionless wimp.
September 3rd, 2006 at 6:13 pmEver wonder why economists can’t ever make their financial theories work?
Afghanistan!!
September 3rd, 2006 at 6:15 pm“since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime five years ago”
Comment by Exley
At least we know somebody that has benefited from the increase in heroin production. Dream on fool.
September 3rd, 2006 at 6:16 pmOops. Change Opium Field into Groves.
September 3rd, 2006 at 6:17 pm[Yeh it was the beer, yeh... the beer did it]
We are to a point where a story about a high number of Taliban fighters killed in Afghanistan is hailed as “good news”. Two thoughts:
1) If Haditha, Iraq, is any indication on how the Pentagon does its counting, I have to wonder how many of those “fighters” will turn out to be civilians.
2) The Taliban were supposed to be defeated, and yet we are supposed to believe that a fight with a resurgent, strong Taliban movement is a good thing.
I’d say this is an awful measure of success.
September 3rd, 2006 at 6:48 pmAnn Coulter can stop twitching now, “help” is on the way…
September 3rd, 2006 at 7:20 pmTerrorism Prosecutions Drop to Near Pre-9/11 Levels
Analysis Shows a Spike After 9/11, Then a Steady Decline
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 4, 2006; A06
Justice Department prosecutions of international terrorism cases, which surged in volume after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, have nearly returned to the levels seen prior to the hijackings, according to an independent analysis of government data released yesterday.
The study of data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an affiliate of Syracuse University in New York, also showed that as many as nine out of 10 terrorism investigations do not result in prosecutions, that most charges are not related to terrorism and that only about a third of those prosecuted end up in prison.
The findings, based on data compiled by the Justice Department’s Executive Office for United States Attorneys, echo previous analyses by The Washington Post and others showing that most defendants in terrorism cases are charged with crimes unrelated to terrorism and that many serve little or no prison time.
TIME TO GO HOME GUYS:>)
September 4th, 2006 at 4:13 amGet get real .
13/ Exley 200 taliban dead – Considering 40 million pushtuns have joined the taliban side and are doing attacks from Pakistan accross the border
NATO will lose
Also remember not 200 so called Taliban fighters which was 70 really and many civillians
Also remember 14 UK and 4 canadian same day
so your wrong it was actually a good day for the taliban
Just to save George Bushes Gas pipeline
September 4th, 2006 at 4:21 amNow it all starts making sense to me. Republicans are not totally oblivious to reality, they haven’t lost their heads after 9/11. They just got themselves some great war looth from Afghanistan. “Since we can’t find Osama, how about taking some of these crops with us to ease our conscience, president, sir?” Why, soldier, you must have been reading my mind. eh, eh, eh.
September 4th, 2006 at 5:09 amOne wonders what the point of this is.
September 4th, 2006 at 5:53 amThe only policy that has worked in regard to ceasing opium production in Afghanistan is cutting off the heads of locals.
Are we proposing a policy shift here among progressives ?
another political stunt playing to the Republican base of heroin addicts
September 4th, 2006 at 1:00 pmhere is a great reason for a significan’t increase in poppy cultivation that strangely is not cited anywhere
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/UK_Cheated_Afghan_Poppy_Growers.html
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September 8th, 2006 at 2:38 amWhat is this? Some crazy new math?
September 8th, 2006 at 2:42 am