Opium Bumper Crops seems to benefit Taliban.

[Philosoraptor]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2390033&page=1

We are winning the war on drugs--- oops, I mean we are winning the war on terror!

Already the world's largest producer of opium, Afghanistan's 2006 output has soared a staggering 59 percent, according to a survey by the U.N.'s drug control program.

"Afghanistan is hooked on its own drug," UNODC director Antonio Maria Costa told ABC News. "The drug problem in Afghanistan is running out of control."

And who gained the most? The Taliban.

So this year, the country that the United States invaded five years ago to stabilize will produce 16,000 tons of opium. Drugs now make up more than half of gross domestic product. Top government officials are tied to the drug trade. Corruption runs rampant. Addiction rates in Afghanistan and neighboring Central Asia, Iran and Pakistan are skyrocketing.

[radwriter0555]

1. The taliban outlawed growing opium almost 2 years before they were knocked

from power because they had outlawed the growing of opium.

And since the taliban isn't the government in afghanistan, and bush's pals the Northern Alliance are... it would be the Northern Alliance who are benefiting, as always.

It's always lies and propoganda with these idiots in the US media.

Remember it was bush who put the Northern Alliance in control in afghanistn. The taliban had a firm grasp on the problems of the nation and fundementalist as they were, their endeavors were far better than the Northern Alliance.

[Disturbed]

2. The Taliban are now considered evil because they

wouldn't give up Osama to the US and turned down a deal to have Unical run natural gas pipeline through their country. Before that they were allies with the Busholini Regime and were handed $43 Million. Had they agreed to what the Busholini Regime demanded there would have been no invasion of Afghanistan.