Allahu akbar...
Posted on 10/14/2006 4:01:19 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy - almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants.
General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armoured 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
(Please ignore the dreadful pun in the last line!)
Even more reason to light them up.
Paraquat
They could leave bags of Fritos and packages of Twinkies at the edges of the fields, and pick off the giggling terrorists when they got the munchies.
Napalm the fileds.
Rofl!
PAGING AGENT ORANGE... PAGING AGENT ORANGE... YOU'RE WANTED AT THE RED COURTESY PHONE!
LLS
Allahu akbar...
Is there anything cannabis can't do? :-)
The answer is simple draft Hippies! They could use these fields as Basic Training, dude.
It turned out to be a large tract of land in New Jersey on which the New York Bulk and Foreign Facility was constructed.
Getting back to the story, all the big-wigs from the POD, the House and Senate Post Office Committees, and appropriate folks from the White House and Justice Department went up on a train to sign the deal.
Just upwind of their little ceremony at the side of the railroad tracks the New Jersey State Police decided that was a good day to burn the vast stores of marijuana they'd seized over the preceeding 4 decades.
I've seen the documents ~ you cannot read the signatures!
Napalm ought to do the job nicely.
Next think you'll hear that Cheech & Chong joined up to "fight".
"Duuuude, they're shootin' at us, man!"
"Far out, man! We cud die in here, man..."
"Oh, wow... bummer, eh?"
(Uncontrolled giggles)
This is a repost. Troops battling Afghan marijuana forests
ninemsn Pty Ltd ^ | Friday Oct 13 09:01 AEST | staff writer
Posted on 10/12/2006 10:08:11 PM PDT by gandalftb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718556/posts
Finally now I understand the Presidents pledge to "smoke 'em out of their hiding places". Surround the place with Oreos and Doritos and let nature take it's course.
5.56mm
What the— ...nobody has a lighter?? Sakes...
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