Comments on: “Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:39:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: aperçu http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-789263 aperçu Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:42:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-789263 What is this? Some crazy new math? What is this? Some crazy new math?

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]]> By: rt http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-789254 rt Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:35:15 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-789254 no way ∫∫mmmm no way ∫∫mmmm

]]> By: teds http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-789248 teds Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:33:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-789248 kjpoljh kjpoljh

]]> By: rt http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-789245 rt Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:30:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-789245 hhhhkjn hhhhkjn

]]> By: ken http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-777724 ken Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:42:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-777724 here 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 here 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

]]> By: coal_train http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-775077 coal_train Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:00:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-775077 another political stunt playing to the Republican base of heroin addicts another political stunt playing to the Republican base of heroin addicts

]]> By: Tank http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-774079 Tank Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:53:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-774079 One wonders what the point of this is. The 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 ? One wonders what the point of this is.
The 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 ?

]]> By: Jericho http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-773970 Jericho Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:09:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-773970 Now 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. Now 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.

]]> By: Tobey Tall http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-773803 Tobey Tall Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:21:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-773803 Get 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 Get 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

]]> By: Tobey Tall http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-773765 Tobey Tall Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:13:36 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-773765 <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/03/AR2006090300768_pf.html" rel="nofollow"><strong>Terrorism Prosecutions Drop to Near Pre-9/11 Levels</strong> 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.</a> <strong>TIME TO GO HOME GUYS</strong>:>) Terrorism 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:>)

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-772396 Zooey Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:20:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-772396 Ann Coulter can stop twitching now, "help" is on the way... Ann Coulter can stop twitching now, “help” is on the way…

]]> By: Gregor Samsa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-772266 Gregor Samsa Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:48:20 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-772266 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. 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.

]]> By: Trinary Sockpuppet http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-772107 Trinary Sockpuppet Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:17:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-772107 Oops. Change Opium Field into Groves. [Yeh it was the beer, yeh... the beer did it] Oops. Change Opium Field into Groves.
[Yeh it was the beer, yeh... the beer did it]

]]> By: Clyde the Ripper http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-772100 Clyde the Ripper Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:16:09 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-772100 "since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban regime five years ago" <em>Comment by Exley </em> At least we know somebody that has benefited from the increase in heroin production. Dream on fool. “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.

]]> By: Trinary Sockpuppet http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-772097 Trinary Sockpuppet Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:15:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-772097 Ever wonder why economists can't ever make their financial theories work? Afghanistan!! Ever wonder why economists can’t ever make their financial theories work?

Afghanistan!!

]]> By: Trinary Sockpuppet http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-772092 Trinary Sockpuppet Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:13:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-772092 Yo 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.. == 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. Yo 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.

]]> By: Clyde the Ripper http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-772089 Clyde the Ripper Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:12:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-772089 "Mission Accomplished" BP (Bush Pushers) posts record profits! “Mission Accomplished”

BP (Bush Pushers) posts record profits!

]]> By: bones http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-771810 bones Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:56:04 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-771810 #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. #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.

]]> By: Exley http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/comment-page-1/#comment-771771 Exley Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:19:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/03/afghanistans-opium-harvest-this-year/#comment-771771 Good news from Afghanistan <strong>NATO: 200 Taliban Killed </strong> 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. Good 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.

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