[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] Mr. Bush's Biggest Pipe Dream

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>Hi:  As we all know, Mr. Bush has been touting Afghanistan as a great
>success. Well, it certainly is.  It has now topped all previous production
>of opium poppies. A pipe dream come true.  This is what the NYTimes
>reported as distributed by The Progressive Review.  Peace.  Richard.
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>BUSH GETS AFGHAN ECONOMY GOING
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/international/asia/19afghanistan.html?hp&e
>x=1100926800&en=12dc9e3c9d258065&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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>NY TIMES -  Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the source of most of the
>opium and heroin on Europe's streets, was up sharply this year, reaching
>the highest levels in the country's history and in the world, the United
>Nations announced on Thursday. . . Afghan officials and foreign diplomats
>called the sharp rise in cultivation and production a major failure for
>President Hamid Karzai and the international effort to counter narcotics.
>More than 321,236 acres of land were planted with poppy in 2004, a 64
>percent increase over last year, the United Nations survey found. Poppy
>has spread to every province in the country, it said. . . The scale of
>poppy cultivation is particularly alarming, because of the growing
>stranglehold wealthy traffickers and drug lords hold over farmers, and
>their influence over the economy and government, Afghan officials and
>foreign experts said. The income from production and trafficking of opium
>in 2004 was estimated at $2.8 billion, equivalent to about 60 percent of
>the country's legal gross domestic product, or more than a third of the
>total economy, the report said.
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>	"The only way out of our crisis (terrorism) is to reduce the 
>anger of the
>most rational, thus also reducing the constituency of the least rational."
>  Sam Smith.
>
>	"When they come for the innocent without crossing over
>your body, cursed be your religion and your life."  Anon.  But often
>quoted by Dorothy Day.
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>"Richard Walton" <richard at soup.org>
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Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand