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Vendaval -> "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 1:12:49 AM)
"Opium eradication starts in Afghanistan" By NOOR KHAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Feb 23, 2:19 PM ET "After failing miserably to curb opium production last year, the Afghan government has launched a renewed eradication drive, particularly here in Helmand province — which accounted for more than 40 percent of the 2006's record yield of 6,725 tons. The U.S. government estimates the opium trade generates $3 billion a year in illicit economic activity. There is some armed resistance to the campaign in Helmand, where drug gangs and Taliban militants form a powerful nexus against President Hamid Karzai's unpopular government. Still, counter-narcotics officials expect better results this year — if not a resounding success." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070223/ap_on_re_as/afghan_opium;_ylt=Auhwn16mSRT_d2HIFea8T369IxIF

pahunkboy -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 6:36:04 AM)
the drug war- will never be won. it is a market economy

juliaoceania -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 6:56:42 AM)
Well where ever you find G.O.D. you will find the American CIA and then the military (guns, oil, and drugs)

thompsonx -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 7:32:10 AM)
From the superanuated position I reside in I can say without fear of contradiction that I have heard this line before. Every year there is some politician who stands up on his or her soap box and declares that they are going to blah blah woof woof ...all that changes is the name of the particular politician. thompson

pahunkboy -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 7:35:04 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: juliaoceania Well where ever you find G.O.D. you will find the American CIA and then the military (guns, oil, and drugs) opium goes back 5000 years- per the silk trail in china. all drugs were legal in US till 1903 [or 1913] The CIA flooded LA with crack cocaine on purpose. WW2 US soldiers fed amphatimines. -in 1988- mrs dukaucus- made her mission to stop diet pills- as she was "addcited". so for a few years- they stopped. At current- air force flight flyers are given amphetamine and [?adrenamlinme/something i feeel is evn more dangerous] bush1 quietly lightened up on the triplicate rx thing. in the current war- we can only guess what type of wierd experementation is playing out. [at least we KNOW what amphetamines are]

pahunkboy -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 7:36:13 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: thompsonx From the superanuated position I reside in I can say without fear of contradiction that I have heard this line before. Every year there is some politician who stands up on his or her soap box and declares that they are going to blah blah woof woof ...all that changes is the name of the particular politician. thompson well- did we win the war on poverty? lets ask katrina

thompsonx -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 7:41:33 AM)
pahunkboy: The bumper sticker on my car reads "the gas war is over...gas won" It might just as well say "the war on poverty is over...poverty won" thompson

pahunkboy -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 7:44:43 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: thompsonx pahunkboy: The bumper sticker on my car reads "the gas war is over...gas won" It might just as well say "the war on poverty is over...poverty won" thompson As a rule I never put bumper stickers on my car. Front and back have emblem decal- [onlu decals] NRA in teh country, im a good ole boy, in teh city im strapped. i fgured it cuts chances of road rage.

thompsonx -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 7:45:30 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: juliaoceania Well where ever you find G.O.D. you will find the American CIA and then the military (guns, oil, and drugs) juliaoceania: I believe it was Willie Sutton who, when asked why he kept robbing banks, said "that's where the money is" so too it would seem with god and the cia. thompson

Stephann -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 8:08:36 AM)
I recall they tried to prevent people from drinking in the 1920s by making it illegal. I recall it was a dismal failure. I also recall it was one of the means by which organized crime became organized in the first place; where there is a dollar to be made, people will make it. Remove the laws, tax the sales of drugs the way we do cigarettes, and watch the illicit drug trade all but vanish into a cloud of commerce. After all, if there aren't billions of dollars to be made selling it illegally, there won't be people who sell it illegally. Ahhhh but the moral majority would lose their funding, for the war on drugs ; ) Stephan

seeksfemslave -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 10:49:57 AM)
Why is it that in the moral arena commonsense often flies out of the window. or should I say turnstile. I am agreeing with stephann

Sinergy -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 1:16:03 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave Why is it that in the moral arena commonsense often flies out of the window. or should I say turnstile. I am agreeing with stephann I would say who doesnt agree with stephann, but for all the money we spend on drug enforcement I imagine there are some people who dont agree with him. Sinergy

Rule -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 2:50:51 PM)
Ah, that means that prices will rise in the European markets and that consequently dealers thus will make higher profits and that crime will proliferate, as will prisons and the police state.

Termyn8or -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/24/2007 11:07:52 PM)
Unter de Taliban, drugas, were the DEATH penalty. Certain people didn't like that, among other things. Many other things. T

Stephann -> RE: "Opium eradictation starts in Afghanistan" (2/25/2007 8:02:10 AM)
Except, of course, if the Taliban had the capacity to manufacture, package, and ship said drugs to the west. One needn't be a beer drinker, to work in Milwaukee. Stephan

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