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Title: WHAT OUR CHILDREN ARE DYING FOR IN AFGHANISTAN
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Published: Feb 16, 2010
Author: M Ravero
Post Date: 2010-02-16 09:43:17 by Itistoolate
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WHAT OUR CHILDREN ARE DYING FOR IN AFGHANISTAN The Taliban had all but eradicated the opium growers before the US invasion. So why is cheap Afghani heroin flooding into the United States? www.thebostonchannel.com/cnn-news/21068822/detail.html whatreallyhappened.com/IM...608_opium_marines_800.JPG 
Between the crosses.
Row on row.
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#7. To: Itistoolate (#0)
The Taliban hadn't eradicated opium growing on their own initiative. They were being paid (bribed) enormous sums by the Bush Administration and previous administrations, prior to Sept 11th, to restrain the opium industy in Afghanistan. Now that we're no longer being pals with them, they are promoting opium as a means of raising funds. On a slight different point, the Bush decision to fight the Taliban, as well as Al-Qaeda, was questionable. Al-Qaeda is not the same as the Taliban; in fact, the two groups had little in common and relatively little communication until the US became their common enemy. The Taliban were home-grown fanatics -- mostly Afghanis with some Pakistanis, mostly speaking Pashto. Al-Qaeda was mostly Arabic-speaking and from Saudi Arabia and some farther flung places. Very literally, few in either group to talk to members of the other group. The Afghanis, generally, don't mind us (America) getting rid of the Al-Qaeda foreign crazies, but they do begrudge us foreigners shooting at their own homegrown Taliban.
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