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To: Snowshoe who wrote (311935)	6/27/2009 2:57:22 PM
From: LindyBill	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

but we'd be putting some other folks out of business. Right now they're growing 50,000 acres of legal opium poppies in Tasmania... The reason poppy based drugs are so high-priced is that we have set up a monopoly that gives most of the business to India and Turkey. I have said from the start that if we took the billions of aid we are wasting on Afghanistan and paid it to the warlords to run the poppy business, with the understanding that they have to eradicate the terrorists in exchange, we could have gone home in 2002. We would have recouped our billions reselling the poppies. Perfect solution? No. But tons better than what we are doing.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (311935)	6/27/2009 11:19:39 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

I found one of the comments rather funny: I have seen a stoned wallaby but I don't know about them making crop circles. The one I saw was slurring his words and asking me for a dollar as he was trying to get the boat to see his brother in New Zealand - he looked in no mood to be formulating a series of complex agricultural design patterns. I could be wrong - they might have masterminded the twin tower attacks, who really knows? Dijon, Hobart, Tasmania