Just a few questions

[likwid]

Originally Posted by Tagger

#1 burn the poppy fields ,,have a real war on drugs , talk about a stimulus package .. Get our citizens/youth off Heroin,,increase productivity,,Stop cash flow to terrorist..Save health care treating addicts..no addict babys,, prostitution ,,guns,,murder.. We're rotting from the inside out . imho And who's making all the money on OXI in this country .. That drug shouldn't even exist . find Osama and Whitey

Taliban kills people for growing poppies.
Next?

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by likwid

Taliban kills people for growing poppies.
Next?

i stand corrected ,,,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006...tan.drugstrade

[Tagger]

but who to believe ..
http://www.voanews.com/english/archi...7a4a572f531720

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008...urgent-taliban

Alot more publications stating they are being financed by poppys ... Maybe they are shooting the farmers for not paying up .

google it .. there's alot more .

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by likwid

Taliban kills people for growing poppies.
Next?

This statement was correct Pre-War on Terror days. The Taliban was extremely effective at destroying poppy cultivation. However, the Taliban has changed their position on poppy cultivation because they see it as an exceptional resource to fund their resistance.

[spence]

If you remember, after 9/11, and at the start of the Afghan war, Iran was actually helping the United States as they wanted to curb the flow of opium (ok, and perhaps punk Sunni Islam in the process).

Then they became a gold member in the new "Axis of Evil" and the moderate president was thrown out in favor of that wacko Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

This is perhaps one of the most important and underreported bylines of the WOT, and a strategic failure of the Bush Administration.

-spence

[likwid]

Originally Posted by spence

If you remember, after 9/11, and at the start of the Afghan war, Iran was actually helping the United States as they wanted to curb the flow of opium (ok, and perhaps punk Sunni Islam in the process).

Then they became a gold member in the new "Axis of Evil" and the moderate president was thrown out in favor of that wacko Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

This is perhaps one of the most important and underreported bylines of the WOT, and a strategic failure of the Bush Administration.

-spence

Also Iran was pretty annoyed with the refugees pouring out of Afghanistan running away from both the Soviets before them then the Taliban. They had a dog in BOTH fights. Its just that most revisionists would rather the "axis of evil" not look like they were helping.