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U.S. MARINES PROTECT AFGHAN’S POPPY FIELDS
The Last Crusade ^ | July 7, 2009 | Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

Posted on 07/07/2009 4:56:18 PM PDT by Psion

Obama’s First Order: Don’t Hurt the Heroin

by

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

thelastcrusade.org

afghan-poppy-protection

Obama's agenda; Narco-Nation Building

Hey, guys, don’t pick the poppies.

That’s the order from the Obama Administration to the 4,000 Marines presently engaged in Operation Khanjar or “Strike of the Sword,” an invasion of the Taliban infested Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.

The Marines of Bravo’s Company 1st Platoon sleep beside groves of poppies Troops of the 2nd Platoon walk through the fields on strict orders not to swat the heavy opium bulbs. The Afghan farmers and laborers, who are engaged in scraping the resin from the bulbs, smile and wave at the passing soldiers.

The Helmand province is the world's largest cultivator of opium poppies - the crop used to make heroin.

(Excerpt) Read more at thelastcrusade.org ...


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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; obama; opium; poppies
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To: Jean S

Strange site.....strange days


21 posted on 07/07/2009 5:33:25 PM PDT by ninonitti
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To: Jean S

Did you even hit the link(s) provided?

Try this one: http://thelastcrusade.org/about/


22 posted on 07/07/2009 5:33:45 PM PDT by cranked
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To: BGHater

Wikipedia is now a legitimate news source? Why don’t you look at what they have to say about Free Republic?


23 posted on 07/07/2009 5:33:57 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Jean S

Do you understand Google or Scroogle? It’s really quite easy to confirm stories with Al Gore’s Information Super-Highway.


24 posted on 07/07/2009 5:34:46 PM PDT by Psion ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine)
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To: cranked

Yes I did. The article was unavailable for about 10 minutes, probably for a rewrite.
This is b.s.


25 posted on 07/07/2009 5:35:00 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Jean S

I didn’t say it was a ‘news’ source, just a link. It is open source, so it could be wrong. Just as anything.


26 posted on 07/07/2009 5:35:18 PM PDT by BGHater (Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
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To: Psion
Do you understand Google or Scroogle?

I think I've heard of Google. Don't they do maps or something?

27 posted on 07/07/2009 5:39:10 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Jean S

Yes....they do maps.


28 posted on 07/07/2009 5:39:56 PM PDT by Psion ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine)
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To: BGHater

Marines push militants out of region

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12771578?source=rss


29 posted on 07/07/2009 5:47:26 PM PDT by Psion ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine)
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To: Psion

As long as drug companies still produce, and doctors and hospitals still use morphine, there is a legitimate market for opium poppies, and a lot of it comes from this region of thw world.


30 posted on 07/07/2009 5:48:20 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

We should spray the crops and let the Taliban starve...or we should just leave that region to the goats.

And Do Not Import and Afghans into the USA!


31 posted on 07/07/2009 5:54:33 PM PDT by Psion ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine)
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To: Psion
We should spray the crops and let the Taliban starve...or we should just leave that region to the goats.

And Do Not Import and Afghans into the USA!

Got any idea what it would cost to de-foliate an entire country?

32 posted on 07/07/2009 6:02:42 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

Screw em’ leave the region....just don;t bring them here.

(And of course that is exactly what they’ll do....bring them all over here, settle them in Iowa or Nashville.,)


33 posted on 07/07/2009 6:07:06 PM PDT by Psion ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine)
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To: coconutt2000

Yeah, because shredding the only cash crop in the country will go a long way in helping to get keep the locals on our side. Geezus.


34 posted on 07/07/2009 6:08:27 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: cranked

As far as I know this has been a standing order way before Obama.


35 posted on 07/07/2009 6:08:56 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: Psion

You are a real genius, aren’t you?


36 posted on 07/07/2009 6:09:45 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace

We don’t need the locals not there and certainly not here. What makes you think that we need primitive Afghanis for anything? They can disappear and it won’t make any difference to the USA


37 posted on 07/07/2009 6:11:04 PM PDT by Psion ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine)
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To: Psion
(And of course that is exactly what they’ll do....bring them all over here, settle them in Iowa or Nashville.,)

If they bring any of them to Missouri, the should drop them off in Skidmore.

38 posted on 07/07/2009 6:17:10 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
This is from 5/08.

Marines ignore opium — Taliban's cash crop

39 posted on 07/07/2009 6:35:27 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: tacticalogic

They can drop them off on main street in Archie MO.

See how long they last.


40 posted on 07/07/2009 6:43:54 PM PDT by Psion ("He who dares not offend cannot be honest." Thomas Paine)
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