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Title: Canadian Troops Attacked by 10-Feet-Tall Marijuan/Triffid Plants
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Published: Oct 14, 2006
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Post Date: 2006-10-14 15:55:08 by YertleTurtle
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Comments: 9
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet (three metre) high marijuana plants. General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana. "The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices ... and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa. "We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said. Even successful incineration had its drawbacks. "A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hiller said dryly. One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'." © Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. | Learn more about Reuters
Poster Comment: Ill effects, my butt. There's just no vanilla ice cream in Afghanistan.
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#1. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
I'd smoke 'em out if I were they....
Hey.... it would take a while.... but the plan is to have the troops there until at least 2010 (at least so say óur´generals).... so they could make a good-hearted effort at it!
The Solution is to apply, for the first time in the history of the United States, the Constitution to Washington, D.C.
They'll smoke-out (or is it "out-smoke"?) the enemy. It's nice to know the Afghani hashish industry is alive and well.
"The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices ... and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa. Patriots preparing for CWII and RWII, please take note!!
Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet (three metre) high marijuana plants.
#2. To: Jethro Tull, YertleTurtle (#1)
I'd smoke 'em
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
#4. To: YertleTurtle, IndieTX, Dakmar, loner, *You Gotta Be Shitting Me* (#0)
(Edited)
Even successful incineration had its drawbacks.
#5. To: robin, all, *LEAP* (#0)
General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana.
***LEAP***
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. Government will lead the American people, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and choking life.
-- Osama bin Laden
"A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
--William K Clifford
#6. To: robin (#4)
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
#7. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
Smoke'em, if you've got'em.
Too funny - thanks.
#8. To: YertleTurtle (#6)
QuicK!! Get the ocean water!!
formerly GJones.
#9. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
With a favorable wind, who knows, maybe we could end the war !
Even successful incineration had its drawbacks.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams
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