U.S. Drops Afghan Opium Spraying Plans (Guardian)

[bobthedrummer]

This after a record year of poppy production, and still no arrest/death of Osama bin Laden. President Karzai is a DynCorp stooge. US plans to eradicate poppy fields thwarted in Karzai's DynCorp colony, Afghanistan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4755217,00.html

[tridim]

1. It's the new "compassionate" war on drugs

Afghani Heroin is good.. but smoke one joint in America and you go to prison.

Freedom RAWKS! :headbang:

[htuttle]

2. In other words, they'll allow and encourage the production of heroin

...in an attempt to further their political goals.

It's like the eighties all over again.

[bobthedrummer]

3. More consolidated now, imo.

[htuttle]

4. And louder and more violent all around

[eowyn_of_rohan]

10. BFEE has quite an investment in the heroin trade, according to some...

who are no longer around to talk.

[jswordy]

5. Interesting. About 2 months ago there was...

...a story about how some opium fields had already been sprayed and killed by planes at night. No one owned up to it. The U.S. denied involvement.

[bobthedrummer]

6. One of the most powerful warlords, the Uzbek, General Dostum,

survived an assassination attempt recently-he is also running for President and has ethnic Uzbek support and many partisans.

Maybe it's a gangbang.

[NYC]

7. General Dostum.

General Rashid Dostum.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Thank you-I knew it had an "o" somewhere-he's a real specimen

of an Afghani warlord, isn't he?

[NYC]

13. I kind of liked "General Dustoff".

He's the one with the lavish swimming pool that he allowed U.S. soldiers (male only) to use.

Remember the swimming pool?

[DulceDecorum]

16. Isn't he the one

who put some metal roofing on a bunch of people
and then drove a tank over them?

Made a right mess he did.

Almost as bad a mess as the ones he used to make
when he tied people, one at a time, to the tracks of tanks
and then took them for a spin.
Nobody needed a funeral when he got through with them.
Just a little mulch and some landscaping.

[NYC]

21. That's the one.

[Redstone]

8. Well, all righty then,

cheap smack is back! Thanks, bushyboy, from all the drug rehab centers in the USA! Business will be booming!

Redstone

[bobthedrummer]

12. Our daughter is in recovery from a 10 year heroin addiction.

But that could go at any time with lots of cheap junk.
She had marked 2 years heroin free last October.

[Minstrel Boy]

14. All the best to her, bob.

May she someday have a government worthy of her.

[Redstone]

20. Best wishes for your daughter...

I understand that heroin addiction is particularly insidious and that heroin so alluring that it's excruciatingly hard to stay away from (the only reason I never tried it; I know it would have gotten me).

Now that, thanks to bushyboy, there'll be plenty of cheap skag hitting the streets, your daughter will need all the support she can get. Good luck to her.

Redstone

[yellowcanine]

11. But I bet we are still spraying maryjane in Latin America. Much more

dangerous drug, dontcha know?

[DulceDecorum]

15. What do they spray with ? Miracle Grow?

It seems to me that the weeds grow bigger and better
after our boys pass over them in a crop duster.

[Straight Shooter]

17. They dust it with Crawford Hog Farm Brush-Clearing Ashes

It's so exposed to bullsh*t over there, it will make anything grow. (Except our economy.)

[Massachusetts]

18. Maybe they learned from history

after F*&%#cking up a lot OUR troops in Nam as well as generations of Vietnamese.IMO

[The_Casual_Observer]

19. Opium makes up about 60% of the income there

Take that away and what have you got? The Russians realized the same thing. There is no money & no way to make it in the cities. Everything is in the fields.