Forget Gold; 1 oz Opium = $10,000

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1. aljazeera
   US to reverse Afghan opium strategy
   UPDATED ON:
   SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2009
   16:11 GMT

   http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/06/200962815525664398.html

   “The United States intends to thoroughly overhaul its anti-drug strategy in Afghanistan, phasing out its opium poppy eradication programme, the US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan has said.”

2. harral, i have heard similar things, but haven’t had the details corroborated w/anything substantial. but i think it was well established that he saw things quite differently and was talking. again, the specifics I am not sure of (perhaps his family and friends and his brothers and sisters-in-arms can elucidate that).

3. No wonder U.S forces being pulled out of Eye-rack and being redeployed in Afghanastan.

   There was a NFl player who after 9/11 happened, chucked a “cozy” career in professional football and joined the Army. Boy, talk about patriotism.

   Perhaps, someone can confirm the following. I heard that this player soon after being deployed to Afghanastan became disillusioned as to what he was seeing. As the story goes, he was writing letters back home to family and friends saying that the military’s purpose was protecting poppy fields.

   Next thing you know, this guy is taking “one” for the team in the line of duty. Later on it comes out that it was “friendly” fire. If true – it was probably more like deliberate fire.

4. They don’t call G.H.W. Bush “Poppy” for nothin.

5. PermaculturePrana,

   Mike Ruppert I think wrote that Afghani farmers planted less back then because the previous year’s crop was almost double what was normally grown, an amount that could accommodate twice the world’s expected demand for heroin/opium.

6. umm…i’m lost just as to who the real traffickers are, considering most of the poppy was eradicated before the US came to town in late 2001.

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