YouTube - US Army - "We Tolerate The Cultivation Of Opium Poppies"
I know that FOX news will probably be deemed conspiracy theorists for saying that... but according to Heraldo Rivera, the troops are protecting the poppy fields to prevent the taliban from taking back control of those areas....
BUT WAIT !!!
The US only invaded afghanistan after the taliban had banned the cultivation of opium... err.. I mean... 9-11 and OBL.
*sarcasm* So, do you agree that it's a good thing that the troops guard the poppies, or are you an anti-american taliban lover??
Really though, is this a good thing or bad thing?
What are the implications of this coming out?
Or are we supposed to pretend like someone near you passed gas in church, where you catch the smell but don't say a thing?
YouTube - US Army - "We Tolerate The Cultivation Of Opium Poppies"
I know that FOX news will probably be deemed conspiracy theorists for saying that... but according to Heraldo Rivera, the troops are protecting the poppy fields to prevent the taliban from taking back control of those areas....
BUT WAIT !!!
The US only invaded afghanistan after the taliban had banned the cultivation of opium... err.. I mean... 9-11 and OBL.
*sarcasm* So, do you agree that it's a good thing that the troops guard the poppies, or are you an anti-american taliban lover??
Really though, is this a good thing or bad thing?
What are the implications of this coming out?
Or are we supposed to pretend like someone near you passed gas in church, where you catch the smell but don't say a thing?
I agree, it's a bad thing, and we shouldn't be involved with the drug trade... But let's see where the story goes.
Unless it's, also, illegal there (which it doesn't seem to be) then we should have no say what so ever about what they grow. If they need us to protect it so it stays in the hands of the goodies rather than falling into the hands of the baddies then so be it.
We're suppose to be there to help these people get their **** back together - no parent them.
You are citing FOX news...we don't even know if this is true or not. Any other sources back this up?
KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.
Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone call from Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, asking him to release the vehicle and the drugs, Mr. Jan later told American investigators, according to notes from the debriefing obtained by The New York Times. He said he complied after getting a phone call from an aide to President Karzai directing him to release the truck.
NATO spokesman James Appathurai said at the time that it was impossible to remove the only source of income for Afghan farmers without being able to provide them with an alternative.
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