McCain is really in touch, isn't he?
Also, if we are doing so fine in Afghanistan, why are they having record opium production?
"Oil and other natural resources are only a part of the equation, however. There is also the drugs trade. The drugs trade helped financed the CIA-backed mujahedeen during the Soviet-Afghan war and Pakistan's economy was bolstered by the trade. The Taliban had succeeded in virtually eradicating the opium poppy production in Afghanistan by 2001, but following the US overthrow of the brutal Taliban regime, opium production has soared, surpassing all previous records, so that today, according to the UN, 92% of the world's heroin is produced in Afghanistan."
Hey Geo, the article below is worth reading...
http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S--Allegations-Against-P-by-Jeremy-R--Hammond-080801-721.html
Also, if we are doing so fine in Afghanistan, why are they having record opium production?
"Oil and other natural resources are only a part of the equation, however. There is also the drugs trade. The drugs trade helped financed the CIA-backed mujahedeen during the Soviet-Afghan war and Pakistan's economy was bolstered by the trade. The Taliban had succeeded in virtually eradicating the opium poppy production in Afghanistan by 2001, but following the US overthrow of the brutal Taliban regime, opium production has soared, surpassing all previous records, so that today, according to the UN, 92% of the world's heroin is produced in Afghanistan."
Hey Geo, the article below is worth reading...
http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S--Allegations-Against-P-by-Jeremy-R--Hammond-080801-721.html
Quote from Trader5287:
[Bruce Ivins, a 62-year-old research specialist at the government's biodefence laboratory in Maryland has committed suicide just as federal prosecutors were preparing to charge him for the anthrax attacks which brought such fear to the US shortly after 9-11. It is worth remembering how quickly some were to state that the most possible scenario was that Saddam Hussein was behind the anthrax attacks
Here's John McCain discussing the possibility that the anthrax might be linked to Saddam Hussein:
LETTERMAN: How are things going in Afghanistan now?
MCCAIN: I think weâre doing fine â¦. I think weâll do fine. The second phase â if I could just make one, very quickly â the second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I donât have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may â and I emphasize may â have come from Iraq.
from 2001