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2011-04-12 Afghanistan

Insurgents Plant Mines to Prevent Destruction of Poppy Fields

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Posted by Fred 2011-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Napalm - Fire Purifies!

Posted by Water Modem 2011-04-12 01:35|| 2011-04-12 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 OTOH HOTAIR > NOW MORE THAN EVER, LETS BUILD AN AT-AT [Star Wars] FOR AMERICA.

All Terrain-Armored Transport(s) + Ice Planet HOTH.

Or in altern a MILLENIUM FALCON!?

Just becuz we can, D *** NG IT, ala POTUS Teddy Roosevelt.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-12 01:41|| 2011-04-12 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 So shift those mines around a little, if that's the game now.

Posted by Grunter 2011-04-12 03:56|| 2011-04-12 03:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Catch 'em planting 'em with a Spectre. Alternative - use napalm to get rid of the poppies - and the mines. Use a Predator to find out who's actually planting these mines and target their front and back doors with Hellfires. ARCLIGHT a village found to be cooperating in planting poppies. There are so many options, and so few intelligent people in our government to actually think of them or implement them.

This war has lasted too long. Time to wipe the slate clean and start over. Perhaps the Uighurs would like a new homeland.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-04-12 14:19|| 2011-04-12 14:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Fuel-air bomb will clear both the poppies and the mines up right quick.

2 fer 1 deal!

Posted by DarthVader 2011-04-12 14:33|| 2011-04-12 14:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps the Uighurs would like a new homeland.

No. They're good for making trouble for the Chicoms. Let's give it to the Paleostinians.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-04-12 15:48|| 2011-04-12 15:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Persistant nerve agents would be more effective at getting everyone involved. And they do break down eventually.

Posted by Silentbrick - Lost Drill Bit Division - Halliburton 2011-04-12 17:50|| 2011-04-12 17:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I've read that the Taliban, et al do not allow the farmers an alternative. It doesn't seem fair to destroy a village that has no alternative.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-12 21:15|| 2011-04-12 21:15|| Front Page Top

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