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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57261)	11/22/2004 7:21:18 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

The only reason why fewer US troops are getting killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq is that there are a lot fewer of them in the former country. And unlike in Iraq, most of the troops are stationed in the capital, protecting its puppet mayor, Karzai. About the opium trade, the cultivation was almost shut off in 1999. Now it is booming. Osama won't complain about it though -- it is 60 percent of the economy now, and generates a great deal of revenue that can be used to buy weapons of all kinds.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57261)	11/22/2004 7:29:10 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Dummy. The Taliban were able to turn opium production into wheat production. That was one good thing they actually did amongst lots of very bad things. The drug-loving thug Shrub, OTOH, loves to destroy anything others have built so he purposely encourages the open growing of opium. Afghanistan now supplies 87.5 % of the world's production and the warlords and the terrorists thank God for Shrubbery's arrogance, stupidity and evil. Who the heck do you think (ok, you don't think so that's a given ROTFLMAO) the money goes to you silly individual. As usual, your inability to follow the news makes you gloss over the fact that there was a 150% overvote in various Afghanistan provinces (which are too dangerous even for NGOs) and 50% of the population can't read which makes voting (for what?) really interesting. You wouldn't know liberty if it sat on your face.