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This post is for Richard 101 whom tonight seems to think Australian troops in Afghanistan are doing a great job. I hope they are, but for whom?

An Australian soldier on patrol in the Afghan province of Oruzgan greets a little girl amid the area's oceans of poppies.
Photo: PA

THE scene is surreal: an Australian soldier meets a curious child in an Afghan field awash with pink and white opium poppies.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/a...67325.html

The crops were almost wiped out before September 11, 2001 -- Now after 9/11 the drug crops are booming again!!!

Heroin trade on the increase: since the fall of the Taliban Afghanistan's multi-billion-dollar drugs trade has soared.
In the weeks leading up to the bombing of Afghanistan, the US and British governments were demonizing the Taliban as drug dealers and promoters of the heroin trade. "The Taliban regime of Mullah Omar earns hundreds of millions of dollars from heroin production," a White House spokesman stated, totally ignoring United Nations reports to the contrary. In fact, the reality was very different; the religious fundamentalists were eradicating poppy fields after declaring cultivation of the drug "un-Islamic". However, Bush cabinet members repeated the allegation with such frequency ...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-94131262.html

Ya wanna see what heroin poppies do to our people?
http://images.google.com.au/images?resnum=0&q=heroin+addict&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

The reason we are told we're in Afghanistan was to find some dick head called Osama Bin Laden.
His other name while working for the CIA is Tim Osman
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLE...n_cia.html

Oww, but this week it came out Bin Laden was left to escape.

Rumsfeld decision let Bin Laden escape: Senate report
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/rumsfeld-dec...te-report/

So they don't really want Bin Laden.

Why aren't our 1500 troops and the Dutch (1) they take orders from not bulldozing down those poppie fields? The media spin is that those poor locals have nothing else to grow. How about fruit and vegtables instead? Nah, we don't want them eating healthy food and living long lives.

(1) The Dutch run Australian troops: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2009/s2741306.htm

Look what we have here..
"Irish gangs buying Dutch heroin face police crackdown."
http://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/12351/

Guess where the Dutch heroin comes from?

And this in Britain..

Britain flooded by cheap heroin from Afghanistan: Afghanistan's bumper poppy crop will turn up on the streets of British cities in six to nine months in the form of cheap but high quality heroin, experts warn." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/thi...12887.html

Bumper crops after 9/11 with our guys running around, hey?
Those like Richard 101 may figure it out one day after they sober up from their scotch on the rocks.