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It's easy for soldiers to score heroin in Afghanistan
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/07/afghan_heroin/index.html?source=rss ^

Posted on 08/07/2007 4:06:19 PM PDT by chessplayer

Afghanistan -- Just outside the main gate to Bagram airfield, a U.S. military installation in Afghanistan, sits a series of small makeshift shops known by locals as the Bagram Bazaar.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; drugs; salon; veterans; wod; wot
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Now the media will try to slime our troops as maniacal drug addicts as they did with troops who served in Vietnam.
1 posted on 08/07/2007 4:06:21 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
it’s also easy for them to do the ‘hokey pokey’. don't mean they do it.
2 posted on 08/07/2007 4:08:21 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: chessplayer

Exactly right. I understand it’s easy for Salon employees to score cocain and PCP too. Course you’d have to ween them off heroin for it to matter.

Don’t even try to get me to think of my offering as any different than theirs on our troops.


3 posted on 08/07/2007 4:09:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
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To: SJackson; Alouette; SandRat; river rat; ExTexasRedhead; JulieRNR21

The DC Press Corps is smearing the troops again. Some things haven’t changed in the past 40 years.


4 posted on 08/07/2007 4:10:23 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: chessplayer

You can get it just as easy in the U.S..

Who do they think they are kidding?

GEESH!


5 posted on 08/07/2007 4:11:57 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: chessplayer

Well Duh.
The entire country is awash in opium poppys


6 posted on 08/07/2007 4:17:30 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: chessplayer

So they have MLK Boulevards in Afghanistan, too?


7 posted on 08/07/2007 4:19:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: chessplayer

[. . .The anecdotal information, however, suggests there may be a wave of new patients coming, and it will include many heroin users. . .]
“Anecdotal information” is what reporters use to prove a point when no concrete information exists.


8 posted on 08/07/2007 4:20:26 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: chessplayer
..typical liberal hit piece.
Somewhere in the article they refer to asking any American GI if they know someone who’s addicted over there....ask them if they know someone who’s addicted back in the states
Perhaps we should be asking the people who work at Salon, if they know of a coworker who’s addicted.
Same **** they wrote 40 years ago,same mindset,same game.
I hated them then,the feeling has never changed.
9 posted on 08/07/2007 4:24:16 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Down near the end of the article is the truth:

“The VA is the world’s largest provider of substance abuse services, caring for more than 350,000 veterans per year, of whom about 30,000 are being treated for opiate addiction. Only preliminary information for Iraq and Afghanistan is available, however, and veterans of those conflicts are not yet showing up in the stats.”
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Despite the hopeful “not yet”, you can bet the truth is very near zero......I say this because the VA loooooovvveesss anything it can claim to increase its own budget of money to waste..............after 6 years of being in Afghanistan, it just isn’t happening, no matter how hard the lefties wish for or try to conjure it......and you can bet that the vast, vast majority of “opiate” cases the VA cites are legitimate Rx’s that they themselves Rx to veterans for legitimate purposes that got out of hand.

Afghanistan and Iraq are not producing the junkies so desirable and dear to the lefties.


10 posted on 08/07/2007 4:24:16 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: chessplayer

It’s easy for Airmen to score weed just outside Kirtland AFB.

It’s easy for Airmen to score cocaine just outside Nellis AFB.

It’s easy for Airmen to score crack just outside Shaw AFB.

It’s easy for Soldiers to score heroin just outside Ft. Jackson.

The titles could go on and on.

Do they do it? Not likely, but some may.


11 posted on 08/07/2007 4:24:44 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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Now the media will try to slime our troops as maniacal drug addicts as they did with troops who served in Vietnam.

Just sticking to their tried and true tactics.

12 posted on 08/07/2007 4:26:50 PM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: Doogle

I left about the same time you arrived.....I never once saw or heard of heroin, and I knew plenty who smoked weed when back in the rear....my frame of reference ends in Jul 68....the only other thing I saw beside weed and alcohol was once in a while someone came up with some of that blue stuff to smear on a Winston......


13 posted on 08/07/2007 4:28:15 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The true extent of the heroin problem among American soldiers now serving in Iraq and Afghanistan is unknown

How do you write an article on drug abuse and not have a soldier as an example. The Marines test guys all the time and lose very few due to positive tests.


14 posted on 08/07/2007 4:29:33 PM PDT by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Seems like it would be easy for the military to institute drug testing, if this became a problem.

If fact, I thought they already did some drug testing, but I’m not sure where/how/if?


15 posted on 08/07/2007 4:29:47 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: Doogle; All

P.S.

reading what I wrote above makes it sound like I am denying that heroin was a problem in Vietnam.....I could have written it clear, to make the point that it came LATER than 1968, at least in anything one could possibly interpret as widespread......and I’m still not sure it was as widespread later as it was made to seem.


16 posted on 08/07/2007 4:34:33 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Clintonfatigued

17 posted on 08/07/2007 4:39:50 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: chessplayer

The true extent of the heroin problem among American soldiers now serving in Iraq and Afghanistan is unknown.

“So we’ll come up with a headline hoping to make the public think they’re all drug crazed baby killers!”


18 posted on 08/07/2007 4:40:20 PM PDT by kenth
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To: chessplayer
From past experience, for I have arranged this same transaction a dozen times in a dozen different Bagram Bazaar shops, I know that the $30 bag will contain enough pure to bring hundreds of dollars on the streets of any American city.

Sounds like Salon either has an addict or a dealer on the payroll. Would it take more than one transaction to prove you can buy the drugs in Bagram?

19 posted on 08/07/2007 4:50:59 PM PDT by OCC
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To: steveo

This just in, it’s easy for soldiers to get Twinkies at 7-11, and a Big Mac at McDonald’s. I hope they are not accusing my friends over there of being addicts.. I do not think I could look down on the MSM any less if they are.


20 posted on 08/07/2007 5:05:06 PM PDT by McCloud-Strife (John McCain: great American, poor Senator, Horrible Republican)
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