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2007-10-31 Afghanistan

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Posted by 2007-10-31 13:13|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 And again, the rest of the NATO troops have to sit on their hands and watch, the poor, frustrated dears.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-10-31 13:51|| 2007-10-31 13:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent, excellent indeed.

Posted by Hunting B. Easy 2007-10-31 13:52|| 2007-10-31 13:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Launch the D-9's forthwith....

Posted by USN,Ret. 2007-10-31 13:54|| 2007-10-31 13:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Pomegranates? What about the poppy crop.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-10-31 14:35|| 2007-10-31 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 This isn't gonna be your - "surrounded by Saudi Arabian security forces" fiasco. Goodbye Taliban "fighters". Spit.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-10-31 15:06|| 2007-10-31 15:06|| Front Page Top

#6 The insecurity in the south has also fueled an explosion in Afghanistan's opium crop, source of most of the world's heroin. In Kabul, the U.N. anti-drug chief warned that a "tsunami" of opium will hit Afghanistan's neighbors if border security remains weak and officials fail to intercept the drug, whose profits fund terrorism.

Maybe the Talibunnies are trying to confiscate the opium.

I would like to suggest that US or Canadian troops reinforce the Afghan lines to prevent the Talibunnies from breaking out of the encirclement.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-10-31 15:07|| 2007-10-31 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 We either burn/eradicate the opium crop or this is only going to get worse. Short term pain, long term gain. Idiotic that we have not done so yet.

Posted by remoteman 2007-10-31 16:51|| 2007-10-31 16:51|| Front Page Top

#8 That is a little easier said than done. They plant the opium in rows between the pomegrantes and the wheat. The only spray vehicles they are using are ATV size and the booms are only 10'. There are also environmental rules so no agent orange. The eradication program is run by the state departement not the military or the agricultural guys.

Posted by Thrairt Oppressor of the Lichtensteiners6029 2007-10-31 17:24|| 2007-10-31 17:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Talibunny a go go.

Another happy story the traitors in the msm won't report.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-10-31 18:24|| 2007-10-31 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 We kill them in big batches and they just keep coming. When do they give up? Ever?

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-10-31 19:35|| 2007-10-31 19:35|| Front Page Top

#11 We kill them in big batches and they just keep coming. When do they give up? Ever?

They give up before we do, Jonathan. Defeat is not an option.

Posted by Kirk 2007-10-31 20:31|| 2007-10-31 20:31|| Front Page Top

#12 The eradication program is run by the state departement not the military or the agricultural guys.

Ah! That explains why there's no eradication program.

Posted by gorb 2007-10-31 22:55|| 2007-10-31 22:55|| Front Page Top

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