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Afghanistan War :Everybody knows the rag-tag enemy has to get money from somewhere to keep fighting to fulfill their puppet enemy role. Opium is th...
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Afghanistan War :Everybody knows the rag-tag enemy has to get money from somewhere to keep fighting to fulfill their puppet enemy role. Opium is the way our Neocon Geopolitically Obsessed New World Order Leaders are getting the money into the hands of al Queda and the Taliban...and that money pays for the explosives and weapons that kill and injure our troops. Everybody knows those wide-open opium fields could be sprayed (like the USA sprays coca in Columbia ), OR burned up OR plowed up OR bought up (by NATO) but our New World Order Leaders have chosen for 8 years now to do nothing at all and leave our troops exposed to a much better financed enemy ( financed by opium). We need to start putting these self-centered New World Order Freaks and their lackeys on trial for High Treason !
sources:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WD...
Figure 5
Note Afghanistan increase in cultivation and production since our side took over the joint (Oct.2001)
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Chronological governmental responses:
Source, Transcript of USA Senate Armed Services Committee Hearinmg with CIA Director
Year 2000:
http://armed-services.senate.gov/stat...
Page #7 last paragraph in "Narcotics" section
Former CIA Director George Tenat;
"there is ample evidence that Islamic extremists such as Usama bin Ladin use profits from the drug trade to support their terror campaign."
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Newsmax Thursday, March 28, 2002 " (this is the least good source)
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/a...
"Bush Will Not Stop Afghan Opium Trade
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The Associated Press Saturday, October 4, 2003
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitts...
"The fact that drug trafficking revenues have soared since the U.S. push into Afghanistan has put the Bush administration on the defensive.
"You ask what we're going to do and the answer is, 'I don't really know,' " Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said recently.
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Washington times, january 2004
http://opioids.com/afghanistan/osama....
"It seems clear to me heroin is the No. 1 financial asset of Osama bin Laden," Representative Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois
Republican, told The Washington Times almost 3 years ago when he came back from a fact-finding mission in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Bin Laden is reaping $24 million alone from one narcotics network in Kandahar, Afghanistan, according to Mr. Kirk's investigation. "The most important thing here is to change the language to not describe Osama bin Laden anymore as a terrorist, but to more accurately describe him as a narco-terrorist," said Representative Kirk."
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USA Today Oct. 2004
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/20...
Doug Wankel, a former Drug Enforcement Administration official who is point man for the U.S. counternarcotics initiative at the American Embassy in Kabul, says the opium industry is "financing terrorism. It's financing subversive activities. It's financing warlordism ." Wankel described the drug trade as a "national security threat to Afghanistan, the region and the world."
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http://cursor.org/1106_archive.htm
Thursday, November 16, 2006
A GAO report has "no recommendations at this time" on combatting opium production in Afghanistan, given that "sustainable progress ... will likely take a decade or more," according to CIA head Michael Hayden.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...
WashingtonPost
Saturday, December 2, 2006; Page A01
"It's almost the devil's own problem," CIA Director Michael V. Hayden told
Congress last month. "Right now the issue is stability. . . . Going in there in itself and attacking the drug trade actually feeds the instability that you want to overcome."
"Attacking the problem directly in terms of the drug trade . . . would undermine the attempt to gain popular support in the region," agreed Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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Radio Free Europe December 22, 2006
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/...
U.S. Marine General James Jones, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO; "without funds from the opium trade, the Taliban wouldn't be able to afford to continue its insurgency."
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Peace.
S-44.
Wouldn't it be far more reasonable for the pharmaceutical companies to raise opium poppies for the terminally ill. I just lost a friend to AIDS, so I think that morphine is better left in legitimate hands rather than in the criminal hands, don't you think so?
Turkey, New Zealand and India grow Papaver somniferum as a legitimate crop whose end product end up in helping to aid those who are injured (or who are either dying of cancer, MS, or AIDS). I think that a positive approach to this poppy problem would be better handled if the product went directly to the legitimate sources rather than for some recreational escapades.
This way, the poor folks in Afghanistan or other third world countries could stand to benefit from the profits made by farming this commodity.