Bush actually stimulates the Afghanistan Economy!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Do you realize this Republican war actually stimulates the economy in Afghanistan? Bushie made some deals with local warlords and guess how CNN said they got rich and powerful... At least he's had experience in drug dealing. Can you spell COCAINE?

the actual headline reads:

In Afghanistan, heroin trade soars despite U.S. aid

Wednesday, January 18, 2006
By Philip Shishkin in Faizabad, Afghanistan, and David Crawford in Berlin, The Wall Street Journal

The suspicious whirring of a motor came from somewhere in the dark skies above the river separating Northern Afghanistan from Tajikistan. Tajik border guards say they shouted warnings and then opened fire. What fell out of the sky was a motorized parachute carrying 18 kilograms of heroin.

It was a small drop in a mighty flood of Afghan heroin that is reshaping the world drug market. Once best known for opium, the active ingredient in heroin, Afghanistan has been working its way up the production ladder. Now it's the world's largest producer and exporter of heroin. Clandestine labs churn out so much product that the average heroin price in Western Europe tumbled to $75 a gram from $251 in 1990, adjusted for inflation, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06018/640103.stm

[MADem]

1. Poppies, my pretty....POPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AtomicKitten]

3. I'm getting sleepy.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. LOL MA. dem

good one! nice to meet you... i lived in cape cod for a while and miss MA.

[MADem]

5. There's nothing like the Cape!! I go there often for my sanity

We've got a slew of family down that way.....

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. I lived at Onset Beach...

Did you know that area was once Native Holy ground?

[MADem]

7. Yep! here's an interesting article about Onset, it is moving up in

the world lately--I just hope the gentry don't ruin it:
http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2004/06/09/a_ghost_town_comes_alive?mode=PF

[Jeffersons Ghost]

11. they don't need a renaissance.at Onset Beach..

I say "stay the course" when it comes to Onset... I liked all the spiritual shops along the Cape... Onset should be its center.

[Midnight Rambler]

2. When I read that topic, I knew it had to have something to do with smack

So THAT'S why Junior is rattling all kinds of sabers in South America. It's not just the oil, he wants all that coke!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. do you mean...

Midnight Rambler?

[Midnight Rambler]

9. LMAO! Yeah, something like that.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Iniquitous Bunny]

10. Poppy production dropped under the Taliban.

The real problem though was when they ended the pipeline talks.

Now, everyone's happy! :woohoo:

(Note: not that I support the Taliban either Just pointing out a factoid here.)

[Sensitivity]

12. I suspect the Pipeline issue was secondary. Follow the money! Billions

have been made as a direct result of the take over of the Nothern Alliance of drug and warlords.
Only a fraction of that stay in Afghanistan. Where is the rest flowing? Follow the money.