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$8.5 Billion U.S. Counter Narcotics Effort in Afghanistan Boosts Opium Production
Judicial Watch ^ | 2/9/17

Posted on 02/09/2017 11:53:34 AM PST by markomalley

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Great work Barry!

1 posted on 02/09/2017 11:53:34 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Follow the money. Who is getting the revenue from poppy sales?


2 posted on 02/09/2017 11:55:53 AM PST by ColdOne (( miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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To: markomalley

The Drug War is an abject failure everywhere.


3 posted on 02/09/2017 11:58:41 AM PST by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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To: markomalley; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

End the War on (some) Drugs. It’s an utter failure. If people are really so f***ing stupid as to use heroin, let them, with the states regulating or prohibiting it as they see fit.

And don’t give me the excuse that they don’t know what they’re getting into. After all the news stories about all the deaths and wasted lives, I don’t see wasting any more money on these FULLY INFORMED idiots. Let ‘em rot, and if they try to steal from people for their next fix, hopefully they will end up planted six feet under instead.

Hopefully, some of these idiots will see the error of their ways and get help for their addiction, which is, after all, their fault.

No more money to the boy-humping, opium-growing, Islamic Afghanis. Bring it back home where is will do more good.

PING!


4 posted on 02/09/2017 12:00:58 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Life was so much better before Hart-Cellar.)
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To: markomalley
the United States has spent an astounding $8.5 billion for counter narcotics efforts in Afghanistan since 2002

And billions more at all levels of government in the USA the past few decades. But everyone is too chicken to admit and/or or too dense to recognize failure & try something different.

5 posted on 02/09/2017 12:02:16 PM PST by gdani
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To: markomalley
Just spray the country with “Roundup.” Problem solved.
6 posted on 02/09/2017 12:09:38 PM PST by Cowboy Bob
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Why don’t we just bomb their poppys with Round-Up.
You can buy a lot of Round-Up for $8.5B.


7 posted on 02/09/2017 12:11:48 PM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: Cowboy Bob

if only everything were as easy as ‘nuke them’...

easy solutions only exist out in the stix, it seems.


8 posted on 02/09/2017 12:12:36 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: markomalley

The more money you make available to people for doing good, the more people will do bad in order to qualify for the money paid for doing good. The law of unintended consequences can not be repealed.


9 posted on 02/09/2017 12:12:39 PM PST by etcb
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To: markomalley

It does seem odd that, dating back to Vietnam, through Central America and now the Middle East, wherever the U.S. is involved, Drug production goes up.


10 posted on 02/09/2017 12:13:46 PM PST by Wolfie
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Great work Barry!
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My great-great grandkids will be paying for this asshole.


11 posted on 02/09/2017 12:17:30 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Irredeemable Deplorable Texan)
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To: Wolfie

Yes, and the CIA has always been around and involved.


12 posted on 02/09/2017 12:19:16 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: etcb

Well, the plus side is more production should lower prices?

Surely the G has stockpiles of agent orange around they havn’t used yet on unsuspecting Marines. This time make sure our people are out of the area.


13 posted on 02/09/2017 12:21:49 PM PST by Mouton (There is a new sheriff in town.)
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To: ColdOne
Do you really want to know?... The Karzai family ran the opium trade. We paid them to reduce production. The Taliban controls much of it now.
14 posted on 02/09/2017 12:32:39 PM PST by D Rider
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To: markomalley

Barry is indeed behind this boost in Opium. Why didn’t he use agent orange? Sprayed on the fields, end of crops, end of the drug business in Afghanistan.

Extreme? You betcha. Next stop Columbia.


15 posted on 02/09/2017 12:38:18 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: markomalley

U.S. taxpayers are the biggest chumps in history.


16 posted on 02/09/2017 12:44:30 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: markomalley

Send in Agent Orange


17 posted on 02/09/2017 1:10:21 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: markomalley

This is not a failed drug war story. This is a failed liberal effort to curb something that they had no intention of curbing while the money went to.....


18 posted on 02/09/2017 1:15:21 PM PST by DungeonMaster (Love your neighbor as you love yourself.)
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To: Wolfie
It does seem odd that, dating back to Vietnam, through Central America and now the Middle East, wherever the U.S. is involved, Drug production goes up.

The spice will flow - the only question is who will control it. Apparently those with the biggest guns will.
19 posted on 02/09/2017 1:16:30 PM PST by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Garth Tater

Poison the crops and that is that.


20 posted on 02/09/2017 1:17:53 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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