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‘The Gloves Are Off’: Top General Says U.S. Demolished $80 Million in Taliban Heroin Labs
Breitbart ^ | Dec 14, 2017 | Edwin Mora

Posted on 12/15/2017 3:09:50 AM PST by smileyface

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To: smileyface

Too late. Heroin is no longer the drug on the streets. It’s now Fentanyl. And that is just chemicals from China


41 posted on 12/15/2017 5:24:12 AM PST by newbolt
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To: pepsionice
invent a fungus that kills the optimum poppys

And the next thing you know is that a slight mutation occured and wheat is also wiped out around the world. The possibility of the unintended consquences is large here since the government is involved. Think mongoose in Hawaii.

42 posted on 12/15/2017 5:55:21 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: bmwcyle

James Comey, HSBC


43 posted on 12/15/2017 6:20:03 AM PST by Oak Leafer
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To: McGruff
Should have done this on Sept 12, 2001.

See the post before yours for an explanation as to why not.

44 posted on 12/15/2017 6:22:41 AM PST by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: Vaquero

Well of course! Professional courtesy extended by our Washington leaders. For all we know, there might be a mutual trade agreement going on between the two parties.


45 posted on 12/15/2017 6:29:42 AM PST by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: smileyface
"The Taliban have never had to face a sustained targeting campaign focused on disrupting their illicit revenue activities … it’s not over. In fact, it’s only just begun. And this will be a very long winter for the Taliban, as we will continue to disrupt their revenue sources again and again and again."

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

(Yes, I was yelling!)

46 posted on 12/15/2017 6:51:02 AM PST by moovova
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To: smileyface
The taliban successfully curtailed opium production in 2001. It was easy: Get caught growing poppy and you are dead. There's a lesson there which our government refuses to learn.

But the taliban were shrewd economists. They had warehouses full of the stuff which multiplied in value as supply was reduced.

The lying statement "the gloves are off" should mean death to growers, not destruction of production.

47 posted on 12/15/2017 7:03:18 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: smileyface

I’ll be impressed when the supply of heroin actually drops. Far as I know supplies are unaffected so far. If this campaign is effective heroin street prices should skyrocket.


48 posted on 12/15/2017 7:04:33 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Rashputin

Ratlines drying up is a good thing...


49 posted on 12/15/2017 7:31:47 AM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: Haiku Guy

“We had to destroy Afghanistan to save it. And where’s the gratitude?”


50 posted on 12/15/2017 11:49:04 AM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Clutch Martin

I don’t know.


51 posted on 12/15/2017 3:18:25 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: sparklite2

No Blood For Opium!


52 posted on 12/15/2017 3:29:28 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: smileyface

Interesting why the USA lets Afghanistan produce a single poppy, there are tens of thousands of American citizens dying of overdoses.

Probably using the cash the get back from the EITC to buy their bindles.

All of this could be solved by a nuke strike on DC.


53 posted on 12/15/2017 3:37:52 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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