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After 12 Yrs of U.S. Occupation, Afghanistan Sets Record for Growing Opium
CNSNews ^ | 12/2/2013 | Ali Meyer

Posted on 12/03/2013 12:08:10 PM PST by rktman

“Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a sobering record high in 2013,” said the UNODC. “According to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey, cultivation amounted to some 209,000 hectares, outstripping the earlier record in 2007 of 193,000 hectares, and representing a 36 per cent increase over 2012.”

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: afghanopium; afghanwar; junkies; opium
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To: Sirius Lee

Did I say CIA? I meant Shadow Government.


21 posted on 12/03/2013 1:41:03 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sirius Lee

Did I say Shadow Government? I meant Soros and friends.


22 posted on 12/03/2013 1:41:37 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sirius Lee

Yes, just as the Vietnam War was a fight over the poppy fields there so, too, was the war in Afghanistan. Before we went in there the Taliban had a dispute with the CIA and then cut them off of the supply and outlawed the growing of poppy.

Looks like the CIA is making quite a bit of money these days.


23 posted on 12/03/2013 2:11:10 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: rktman

Opium is the religion of the people...


24 posted on 12/03/2013 5:52:02 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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