US Soldiers In Afghanistan Protect Poppies
Elaine Meinel Supkis

As the US troops protect opium war lords in Afghanistan, the rest of the world is seeing a flood of cheap heroin. The US, like England before us, conquers nations and turns them into drug addicts selling illegal drugs which then produces prodigious profits which flow into the banking system. This is one great way to sop up excess dollars produced by the banks. The War in Vietnam increased the drug trades immensely and the 'War on Drugs' forced prices to the stratosphere during a very inflationary period in the US due to war costs. This is the Snake Ouroboros eating its own tail. Look at that lovely girl in the mug shot from today's news from Long Island: she is a drug addict/drug dealer. Heroin is now so cheap, it is flooding our markets and hooking our children. And it is all the fault of Bush, the CIA and the Pentagon...and the Federal Reserve.

From Al Jazeera:

Nassau cops: Teen heroin use on rise

Heroin is becoming the drug of choice for an alarming number of Nassau County teenagers, police told local school officials at a meeting Thursday morning.

The teens, many of whom come from middle-class homes on Long Island's South Shore, often start out using prescription drugs, and move on to heroin when their supplies get scarce, police said. Many of them begin by snorting or smoking the drug, rather than injecting it, police said.

Whereas in 2002 there were about 100 heroin possession arrests countywide, last year there were about 150, said Det. Lt. Pete Donohue, deputy commanding officer of Nassau's Narcotics and Vice Squad.

"It's scary," said Mark Scher, principal of East Meadow High School. "Kids on the edge will try anything. Now they can get a bag of heroin for less than the cost of going to a movie."

When 9/11 happened, the US didn't bomb Saudi Arabia, Yemen or Egypt. We attacked Afghanistan. I was one of the few online writers to say, this was pure madness. Even if Bin Laden was guilty of organizing the 9/11 attacks, invading Afghanistan would not fix that. Note that he was never captured. This is obvious why: he had virtually nothing to do with 9/11, he may have inspired the attackers but he didn't arrange, fund or plan it. The people who did this are still in the shadows.

A warning to readers: there is a gigantic difference between assisting and enabling attacks on America and staging fake attacks. So long as our government works day and night to assist attackers as well as motivate them into attacking, all they have to do is sit back and reap the fruits of terroristic labors. They are working day and night right now to insure that someone will be motivated and able to attack us before November. The chances of this are rapidly rising. I would say, to 100% if Obama is nominated by the Democrats.

People are very naive about the CIA and our ruling elites. They give both way too much credit for being able to carry out dastardly schemes. But often, all they do is leave doors open, funnel money to the right places at the right times, meddle a tiny bit and voila! They get their results. I grew up deep inside this world. Hell! As a child, 50% of the time, I didn't know what continent my parents were on, much less, exactly where they were. Indeed, when I requested to be made an adult at 16, I told the judge, I was on my own much of the time, anyway. He agreed.

Back to the CIA: they make contact with tribes. My parents were awesome in this business. They took along medications and other things like shortwave radios, etc. And used this as a way of introducing themselves to important people who thought they were mere shepherds or stone age farmers. After insinuating themselves into the community, they begin to form alliances and make suggestions. The Peace Corps was the crowing triumph of the CIA, by the way. 'Are you CIA?' people would ask suspiciously.

'Oh no, I am not! I know nothing about the CIA,' the agents were all told to say in return. Once, a CIA agent was not shot by the Chinese when she said, 'Why would the CIA send a 6 foot tall woman into Tibet to spy?' Heh.

Back to the CIA and drugs: tribes like to make money and if local governments are suppressing drugs, the CIA says, 'We will PROTECT you while you make illegal drugs. Don't worry.' And so it goes. In Afghanistan, the Taliban had crushed the opium growers. The minute the fires stopped at the WTC, the CIA had all the agents already in place on the edges of Afghanistan hard at work with the drug dealing war lords who were harassing the Taliban. We immediately brought in more money [they were always funded by the CIA] and fire power. Then our government refused to look for bin Laden who is a CIA tool in the first place, and they instead, attacked the innocent Taliban who had no idea about the planning or nature of the 9/11 attacks.

Click here for a good historical review of the opium industry.

RUSSIA RETURNING TO AFGHANISTAN WITH NOT-SO-SOFT POWER

By Vladimir Socor

Russian power is returning to Afghanistan in military and security terms, albeit without a military presence on the ground, at least for now. Moscow is using the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as a thin cover.

On March 9 through 13, a CSTO Working Group on Afghanistan held talks in Kabul with senior officials of the Afghan Ministries of Defense, Internal Affairs, Foreign Affairs, and other security and civilian government departments. The Russian-led delegation proposed to institute regular contacts with Afghanistan's military, security, and law-enforcement agencies and invited Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak to Moscow. The delegation offered assistance to Afghanistan to build its army, security agencies, and border protection units and to combat "terrorism" and the drugs trade. Specific proposals include delivering arms and military equipment and training Afghan military and border-troop officers as well as "special services" personnel. In the civilian sphere, Russia and the CSTO are offering "help in establishing the organs of executive government both at the central level and in the regions" (Interfax, RIA-Novosti, Itar-Tass, March 12, 13).

Although such assistance could only be initiated politically and supplied in practice by Russia, the official reporting presents it as an initiative of the CSTO's Central Asian member countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). The delegation held meetings with these countries' embassies in Kabul. There were apparently no working meetings with Western representatives there.

Both Russia and China are immensely furious about the US aiding and abetting illegal drugs production. In the Al Jazeera clip at the top, we see the Afghanis are now growing immense cannabis plants to produce hashish! Also, the stupid US program to bring democracy and education to the people there is revealed to be totally false propaganda. There is virtually no attempt by either the drug overlords or the US military death machine to educate anyone.

Marines ignore Taliban cash crop to not upset Afghan locals

The Taliban, whose fighters are exchanging daily fire with the Marines in Garmser, derives up to $100 million a year from the poppy harvest by taxing farmers and charging safe passage fees _ money that will buy weapons for use against U.S., NATO and Afghan troops.

Yet the Marines are not destroying the plants. In fact, they are reassuring villagers the poppies won't be touched. American commanders say the Marines would only alienate people and drive them to take up arms if they eliminated the impoverished Afghans' only source of income.

Many Marines in the field are scratching their heads over the situation.

"It's kind of weird. We're coming over here to fight the Taliban. We see this. We know it's bad. But at the same time we know it's the only way locals can make money," said 1st Lt. Adam Lynch, 27, of Barnstable, Mass.

The Marines' battalion commander, Lt. Col. Anthony Henderson, said in an interview Tuesday that the poppy crop "will come and go" and that his troops can't focus on it when Taliban fighters around Garmser are "terrorizing the people."

"I think by focusing on the Taliban, the poppies will go away," said Henderson, a 41-year-old from Washington, D.C. He said once the militant fighters are forced out, the Afghan government can move in and offer alternatives.

An expert on Afghanistan's drug trade, Barnett Rubin, complained that the Marines are being put in such a situation by a "one-dimensional" military policy that fails to integrate political and economic considerations into long-range planning.

Our military is certainly 'one dimensional'. It always fights with, not against, illegal drug warlords. In South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East or anywhere: illegal drugs makes our world go round. It is the most excellent way to sop up excess dollars. It is the world's most profitable trade per ounce. Vast fortunes are made this way and the money flows into the banking system in odd ways. Above all, the CIA has an open-ended source of illicit funds they can use for black ops deals like giving Atta many thousands of dollars and note, he also had access to lots of illegal drugs! This funds all the terrorists. If the US wants terrorists, this is the very easiest way to give them the moolah for the murders.

So why is our military PROTECTING the opium trade? The soldiers, who are heavily brainwashed, can't figure this out. Nor dare they ask their predecessors, the warriors from the Vietnam war, why this is so!

From the Pentagon:
DoD Winning 30-Year War Against Drugs in the Ranks

The incidence of service members using illegal drugs is at a 20-year low, evidence that DoD is winning the war against drug abuse in its ranks -- a conflict that began during the Vietnam War.

Ana Maria Salazar, deputy assistant secretary of defense for drug enforcement policy and support, noted that drug use by DoD personnel is down 90 percent compared to two decades ago. Just 2.6 percent of all service members reported drug use within the 30 days preceding their response to a 1998 survey, she said. More than 27 percent of respondents in a 1980 survey said they used illegal drugs in the preceding 30 days, she noted.

"Overall, the use of illegal drugs by service members is down. Drug use has decreased every year since we started monitoring it in 1980," Salazar said.

She pointed to the effectiveness of DoD's "zero tolerance" policy toward drug use, pre-employment and random drug testing, and substance abuse education programs. She also cited DoD's participation in such drug awareness information campaigns as national Red Ribbon Week -- Oct. 23-31 this year.

HAHAHA. In Vietnam, a huge percentage of the troops were hooked on drugs! The flood of drugs from Vietnam into the US was via our own troops for the most part! But the military doesn't want druggies to run the show so they cleaned up the troops but set them up as guards for the illegal drug warlords, knowing that the troops can't fall for these drugs due to constant drug tests.

To woo conservatives, McCain pledges war on 'evil'

On Wednesday, he vowed to take the fight to religious persecution, human trafficking, child pornography and other "evil" if elected. Speaking at Oakland University in Rochester, Minnesota, CNN said the event was part of the Arizona' senators efforts to reach out to conservative voters.

A war for values? McCain rebuked "a tendency in our age to accede to the spurious excuse of moral relativism and turn away from the harshest examples of man's inhumanity to man, to ignore the darker side of human nature that encroaches upon our decency by subtle degree."

Adding to President George W. Bush's list of rogue nations -- or his infamous axis of evil (Iran, North Korea and Iraq) -- the presumptive Republican nominee "singled out" China, Iran, Myanmar, Sudan, North Korea and Saudi Arabia for restricting religious freedom -- "a subject of great importance."

This war on evil should begin with a mirror. McCain is professionally stupid. With 'annihilate all Iranians' Clinton a close second. The major slave state, the US, the country that shipped over millions of helpless Africans and then, when 'freed', refused to grant them simple civil rights for another 100 years, is going to stop trafficking in humans? HAHAHA. As well as fighting drugs? While stationing soldiers around poppy fields to protect them? Have you at long last, no decency, sir? Is McCain denouncing this? Is Hillary Clinton? Or Obama? Are any of them swearing on a stack of Bibles, they will stop this stupidity? Or shall we wait until all our children are drug addicts?

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