[Boner1]

I also wonder where the number come from . And after whatching c-span hearing on the drug trade in afganastan the numbers are about to change and not for the good .

[robertpaulsen]

Now why do I get the feeling that if the 400,000 number represented an increase, you'd accept it as gospel?

[oyez]

Now the coalition forces have liberated the world's largest opium producing country from the Tali-ban the farmers there are now free to grow all kinds of potatoes, tomatoes, beans, turnips, corn, peanuts and all sorts of other goodies. Of course it will take a few years for fruit production to catch up.Um-hum.

I hate to say what I really think.