I did same thing last week. Was on the thread about Linux. Found out me best friends 26 year old daughter was going to be taken off life support the following day. I mis read a post to me. Took it the wrong way. I apologized, but don’t know if the person ever was able to read it. :) Felt like doo doo too……….

Ha…wonder what God would say about growing addictive drugs to harm human beings.

jeez

But they got Islam, a pedophile warlord’s guidebook for permanent terror, instead.

Afghanistan used to be Buddhist.

Before the invading Mohammedan hordes slaughtered them all.

So much for passive resistence.

Pistachios are an example of a crop that grows naturally in that area and is already adapted to that climate. They also bring good money on the world market. Most of the world’s pistachios come from Iran but Afghanistan had huge groves of them that were cut for firewood over recent years.

Afghanistan also has huge undeveloped mineral reserves.

KABUL (AFP) – Significant deposits of copper, iron, gold, oil and gas, and coal — as well as precious gems such as emeralds and rubies — are largely untapped and still being mapped, Mohammad Ibrahim Adel told AFP.

And they promise prosperity for one of the world’s poorest countries, the minister said, dismissing concerns that a Taliban-led insurgency may thwart efforts to unearth this treasure.

Already in the pipeline is the exploitation of a massive copper deposit — one of the biggest in the world — about 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Kabul.

“There has not been such a big project in the history of Afghanistan,” Adel said.

There is a lot of untapped wealth in Afghanistan waiting to be developed. The deal with the heroin poppies is that the tribes struck a deal with Pakistan and the US to stop growing them in Pakistan in exchange for cash payments to the farmers to offset the loss of income. The tribes then just moved the poppy cultivation across the border to their tribal lands on the other side of the line. So now they get paid for not producing the opium Pakistan that they are getting paid for producing in Afghanistan. The tribes are getting paid twice for it.

Thanks leet. I was looking over my blog, and noticed that if you were just skimming titles, you could make that assumption. Don’t sweat it. In fact, I added you to my blogroll.

Nethicus on October 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM

Sweet, I look forward to having some extra reading :)

The reason opium production is down is because growing wheat (due to global food shortages) is now MORE profitable than growing opium.

I don’t send my brave young men and women to fight and die for drugs. this is about freedom…

And who does this affect most? The poor. More proof of George Bush’s war against the poor!

Nethicus on October 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM

You beat me to it: I can afford to cut down on fuel, but the rising cost of opium is gonna hurt.

They will always have their opium to sell to the unbelievers. They have always been bandits and smugglers and they always will.

Afghanistan is a new sharia state with western (money) backing. They won’t want to lose that “aid”. There will always be a need for tens of millions to keep the lid on the “restive” portions and their insurgents.

It’s all part of the resource and moral drain jihad. Afghanistan is in the middle of nowhere with no resources of their own. It has no value to us practically and if the idea is to deprive the “religion hijackers” of a dry and safe place to lay their “anti Islamic” plans , well they are doing that in apartments in Manhattan and Dearborn right now.

This dangerous concept of buying peace from Islam with “infrastructure” is a shamefully wasteful idea that stems from the simple ignorance of Islams structure and purpose.

BL@KBIRD on October 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM

They have to make a living. Which way would you rather have them do it?

Me thinks though,that the Lefty MSM,won’t call
this a reduction,but an increase,as per usual!

Oh crap, I made a huge mistake. Haven’t had my coffee yet this morning, only saw the first few titles.

My apologies Nethicus. Perhaps next time I should actually read more than just a few titles at the top, lest I look like as much of an idiot as I do now. :(

I’m going to go make some coffee before I post again.

leetpriest on October 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM

Thanks leet. I was looking over my blog, and noticed that if you were just skimming titles, you could make that assumption. Don’t sweat it. In fact, I added you to my blogroll.

Why not just buy the product ourselves and use it as a cheap, abundant source for morphine?

MT

Mistahtibbs on October 25, 2008 at 10:10 AM

I like the way you think. Turn something negative into a positive. We need so much more of that these days.

My gosh, I forgot what one of those looked like. How refreshing!

MT

I think it was playful sarcasm.

jgapinoy on October 25, 2008 at 9:55 AM

I think it was playful sarcasm.

Look at his blog. He’s no libtard.

jgapinoy on October 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM

Oh crap, I made a huge mistake. Haven’t had my coffee yet this morning, only saw the first few titles.

My apologies Nethicus. Perhaps next time I should actually read more than just a few titles at the top, lest I look like as much of an idiot as I do now. :(

I’m going to go make some coffee before I post again.