Why is that dickhead, President Obama, not ordering troops to destroy the Afghanistan drug trade?

follow the money and you will get your answer!!!

Bush has too much invested in teh Opium trade there. Obama is a little poo-boy of the Bush Cabal, henceforth takes ORDERS from...

CIA via Air America will NOT allow their Cash Flow to be Blocked

What about the British?

Gee, maybe because the whole reason we are over there is to control the opium trade. WAKE UP SHEEP

Because they are in on that money to fund their secret operations. Get with the program!

I know the program!

LaRouche: The U.S. and Russia Should Launch a Sudden, Unexpected Hit Against the Afghan Dope Trade

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April 7, 2010 (LPAC)—In discussions with colleagues yesterday, Lyndon LaRouche emphasized that we have got to organize a strategic shock-effect intervention into the current strategic situation, and the ideal situation that lends itself to that, is a sudden, unexpected hit against the Afghanistan opium and heroin apparatus.

It's the kind of thing that can be done in a matter of several hours overnight, based on very good intelligence, LaRouche explained. You don't want to go around bombing peasants, but you want to deliver a deadly blow to the British Empire's dope capability. You want to hit the trafficking organizations, you want to knock out their opium fields, and you want to do it as a joint Russian-American operation. This will have the effect of causing a major shift in the strategic situation.

Cooperate with the Russians, and screw the British by running an effective eradication operation against their opium war at its most vulnerable point, which is inside Afghanistan.

We've got to move fast, LaRouche continued, and run an operation that catches the British off guard and preempts their ability to carry out any effective counter operation.

One of the essential features of this is that we've got to bring Iran in on the operation. They have a very strong vested interest in defeating the opium trade out of Afghanistan — 20% of the population of Iran is now addicted to opium.

Therefore, LaRouche said, we run a preemptive operation against the British. It's a Russian-American joint operation; we get the Iranians in, we get the Chinese giving their support for it, which will shore up Pakistani cooperation, and under those circumstances we've got India on board as well. The British are already hated in China, and, from the standpoint of the Anglo-Saudi operations out of Afghanistan, nobody likes the Saudis at all.

This is a strategic operation, LaRouche reiterated. Keep the British on the defensive. We've scored a significant impact at the White House by the way LaRouche packaged the whole Afghanistan policy in the impeachment of Obama for his tantamount to treason collusion with the Taliban drug traffickers, by ordering a hands-off policy on the opium business. We've created a situation where the Obama factor itself has been thrown onto the defensive.

Right now, in this immediate phase, we've got to keep Obama on the defensive, LaRouche explained, because we've got to get a green light from inside the US government for this joint US-Russia operation: a well-planned operation by Russia and the United States to break the back of the opium apparatus in Afghanistan.

If you do this, LaRouche noted, this will shift the dynamic inside of Iran as well. And if the Israelis figure out that LaRouche has a direct hand in this operation, then they will tend to get very careful, and will be contained from taking some kind of insane flight forward operation.

The official reason is they don't want to upset the local economy. And, actually, the Taliban cracked down hard on the opium trade when they were in power.

duh..

the CIA has controlled our drug trade for years.

obammy no different than the bushes..

So the Taliban can not only fight off the USA and NATO for 10 years, at the same time they smuggle heroin into Europe and USA to fund their war? All those drug dealers on the streets of the big cities, they're actually Taliban? The drug kingpins raking in billions of dollars a year, they are Taliban?

FUKKEN TALIBAN MUST BE SUPER HEROES!!!!

Hey did you know that in the Viet Nam War, there was lots of heroin being produced in the Golden Triangle. That is right in the Viet Nam area. Was that the Taliban too? Or was that just a COINCIDENCE????

THINK ABOUT IT.

So what you are saying is the Taliban are NOT using the opium production as a source of funding today?

Because Clinton and Cheney own the opium fields.

IMO. I consider the Taliban a British lap dog. Never mind the CIA.




Obama DoD Spokesman Admits: Fighting Drugs in Afghanistan "Is Not a Priority"

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April 7, 2010 (LPAC)—At a March 30 Pentagon briefing, spokesman Geoff Morrell answered a journalist's question about whether "the U.S. military, in particular, should get more involved in countering the drug threat" in Afghanistan, by stating for the record: "Overall counter-narcotics efforts... it's not a focus of our efforts. It is not a priority."

Morrell then tried to justify the Obama administration's British-instigated refusal to eradicate the opium crop, by saying that the U.S. policy was instead to "provide alternative means of... sustaining oneself, alternative crops, alternative businesses. There has been some success on that front."

On March 1, Assistant Secretary of State David Johnson issued similar lies, saying "we've reshaped our assistance programs... to move away from a focus on eradication... and focus more on an interdiction and institution-building effort." He said that "some very strong efforts have been taken by the Afghans themselves... [with] alternative livelihoods, economic support for the area."

The facts, however, according to the United Nations Office On Drugs and Crime (UNODC), are that less than one-third of opium and cannabis farmers in Afghanistan gets any kind of government or international aid for legitimate crops; whereas 50-60% admit to getting funds, seeds, fertilizer, and other inputs from the drug lords—so the real percentage is undoubtedly far higher. Alternative crops? Although the price paid for Afghan farm-gate opium dropped by 6% in 2009, the price of wheat fell by 43%, rice by 8%, and corn by 38%.

As for the great "success" of interdiction and drug seizures, the State Department's annual INCSR reports that, as opium production rose from 3,600 metric tons in 2003, to 6,900 metric tons in 2009, total seizures averaged a grandiose... 1.4% of the total!

But this is not a policy failure. It is a policy success—for the British Opium War policy embraced fully by the Obama regime, and which is killing the population of the United States, and of other nations such as Russia.

Care to explain the British troops and Tony Blair?


How Britain Ran Afghanistan's Helmand Opium


April 6, 2010 (LPAC)—Afghanistan's Helmand province produces almost 4,000 tons of opium annually. That amount is almost 60% of Afghanistan's total opium production. However, Helmand was never such a large producer of opium. It became so after the British troops, under the leadership of the Empire-server Tony Blair, took over control of Helmand.

Cultivation in Helmand Province more than tripled between 2002 and 2007, bringing the area under opium poppy cultivation in 2007 to nearly equal the area cultivated in Afghanistan in 2005 (104,000 hectares), according to the UNODC 2007 survey of opium production in Afghanistan.

In May 2005, during an interview with CNN's "Late Edition," Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai laid the blame for the explosion of opium production in his country at the feet of the U.S. and Britain. "This particular operation in Kandahar or in other parts of the country, which have not been so successful, was supposed to be done by an agency, a department that was funded by the international community, by the United States, by Britain. The failure is theirs, not ours," said Karzai.

Why did Karzai make this accusation? At a conference on "Afghanistan's Reconstruction: The Future," at the University of Nebraska on Oct. 3, 2008, a document said: "In 2002, the farmers were confident about the future when the U.S. returned, following the years of darkness of the Soviet occupation and the anarchy of the 1990s. The farmers of central Helmand had great hopes, expressed enthusiasm and provided substantial support for U.S. funded reconstruction projects in 2002 and an earlier project initiative that was pioneered in 1998. Both of these efforts focused on the central Helmand irrigation system, and the elimination of opium poppy. The farmers then lost confidence and hope after the closing of AIP (Afghan Integrated Program) activities in early 2005 because of security problems. After 2005, there were some nominal if expensive follow-on projects but these typically did not directly benefit the farmers or the agricultural economy, and sometimes to the farmers, they seemed irrelevant investments."

Get this: Once the AIP was shut down, Helmand was handed over to the British. Some 7,000 British troops moved in to take over the "security" of Helmand. Within a year, Helmand was on the verge of becoming the world's biggest drugs supplier, cultivating more opium than entire countries, such as Myanmar, Morocco, or even Colombia.

Britain once again got control of a chunk of the world's opium supply. In the 18th Century, it was the opium that helped Britain to build its colonial empire.

[link to www.larouchepac.com]

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley , seems to be equal with Obama. A dickhead playing dumb or woefully ignorant.

Keeping the bastards honest.

Notice how Crowley did not mention ANY FU*KING military operation against the drug trade in Afghanistan. That's because none exists.

Pathetic.


EIR's Bill Jones Nails State Department Spokesman on Obama's Support for Afghan Drug Trade


April 7, 2010 (LPAC)—The following exchange between EIR's Bill Jones and State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley occurred at yesterday's regular State Department briefing:

BILL JONES: On Afghanistan and drugs, last week, there was two major meetings on the issue. One was held by General Stavridis, the head of the European Command — called in the ambassador — U.S. ambassadors from the Black Sea countries to talk about it, saying that the question of the narcotics in Afghanistan is one of the biggest threats facing the NATO countries and urging action on this issue. The second one was in Kabul, which was addressed by Viktor Ivanov, the Russian drug head, who indicated that over the past year, there have been 30,000 victims of death by heroin overdoses, calling it a war that Russia is fighting which is undermining their capability, and addressing NATO, calling on them to set up a strategy within the NATO-Russia Council for going after the drugs.

Now, our policy under the McChrystal plan is to — hands off the heroin, let them do what they're doing. And in effect, we're actually defending the heroin trade, and our soldiers are fighting and dying to create an Afghanistan in which drugs, the heroin, is flowing. Isn't that a contradiction? And don't we have a responsibility to do something to get together with these nations like Russia, which is heavily affected by that, to deal with the drug trade?

MR. CROWLEY: Well, Bill, I do not agree with your characterization of our strategy or its implications. Clearly, narcotics is a major concern as it pertains to Afghanistan and the region and beyond, including Europe. This was a subject that came up during the Secretary's recent trip to Moscow and her bilateral with Foreign Minister Lavrov. We are looking to have — we have a strategy. We've made some adjustments over the past year. Our focus is on going after the middlemen, those who are responsible for the drug trades.

As you've had people here, including a couple of visits by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, we are affirmatively working to shift the Afghan economy, try to expand and re-grow a legitimate agricultural sector. So we are working this hard. It is an issue of great concern to the region, to Europe, to the United States. Ninety percent of the world's poppies are grown in Afghanistan. So central to the future of a stable and democratic and prosperous Afghanistan is dealing with the current drug challenge.

We are working that aggressively, but we work this on many levels. Focusing just on one thing, as we've seen in recent years, despite heavy emphasis during the previous administration on eradication, the growth of poppies continued in Afghanistan. We think we have the right strategy. We're putting resources in place. This is not — this is something we're — that is central to our efforts in Afghanistan.

[link to www.larouchepac.com]

A few years ago...


JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST

U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.

A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.

"We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies.

A State Department official said Thursday all the information the United States has received so far indicates the poppy crop had decreased, but he did not believe it was eliminated.

Last year, Afghanistan produced nearly 4,000 tons of opium, about 75 percent of the world's supply, U.N. officials said. Opium -- the milky substance drained from the poppy plant -- is converted into heroin and sold in Europe and North America. The 1999 output was a world record for opium production, the United Nations said -- more than all other countries combined, including the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam.

The Taliban, which has imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controls, has set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops.

The U.N. surveyors, who completed their search this week, crisscrossed Helmand, Kandahar, Urzgan and Nangarhar provinces and parts of two others -- areas responsible for 86 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan last year, Frahi said in an interview Wednesday. They covered 80 percent of the land in those provinces that last year had been awash in poppies.

This year they found poppies growing on barely an acre here and there, Frahi said. The rest -- about 175,000 acres -- was clean.

"We have to look at the situation with careful optimism," said Sandro Tucci of the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Vienna, Austria.

He said indications are that no poppies were planted this season and that, as a result, there hasn't been any production of opium -- but that officials would keep checking.

Times have changed.


DEA: The Taliban Has Become a Drug Cartel, like the FARC
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April 7, 2010 (LPAC)—More evidence piles up every day that Obama's protection of the drug traffic is treason. In October, 2009, former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director of Intelligence Michael Braun, testified to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control that Afghanistan's "drug production and trafficking ... provides a limitless stream of funding directly into the Taliban's war chest."

Taliban has become a "cartel" in their own right, similar to Colombia's FARC, Braun told Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

"If left unchecked, funding from the Afghan drug trade will continue to fill the Taliban's war chest in volumes unmatched by all other forms of illicit finance combined," Braun said, warning that it is "following in the footsteps of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)."

Around 2006, he said, the DEA conducted a comparative analysis of the FARC and Taliban at the request of Bush's National Security Council. At that time, Taliban "was seven to ten years behind the FARC's evolutionary development in the global drug trade," he said. "What troubles me most about the study are not its findings; but the speed with which the Taliban is advancing ... in drug trafficking activity. They are closing the seven- to ten-year evolutionary gap with the FARC at a speed far faster than most care to admit or acknowledge....

By 2009, he said, the DEA "has unmistakably determined that the Taliban is now managing and operating major clandestine laboratories, drug cache sites, and poppy bazaars. They have morphed; they have become the manufacturers and traffickers of heroin, opium, hashish and marijuana." In September, 2009, the DEA and Afghan forces seized 1.8 metric tons of opium an heroin at a major laboratory in Southern Afghanistan, he said. They also found "Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and IED bomb-making materials" at the scene.

The money figures that Braun described are far greater than the usual estimate of about $100 million from the dope trade. He said, in June 2008, Afghan forces with DEA and U.S. Army support raided a Taliban hashish-processing facility near Spin Boldak in Southern Afghanistan, and seized 235 metric tons of the drug—the largest drug seizure in world history. The estimated Western European value of the drugs was over $600 million dollars...." In another raid in Eastern Afghanistan, drug ledgers were seized, which showed that $169 million dollars had been moved by one Taliban-affiliated trafficker for the sale of 81 metric tons of heroin over just a 10-month period."

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That's easy. Because the drug trade in Afghanistan is run by the CIA.

Good old fashioned corruption. Not that hard to buy off some military. In Nam Majors and above could sign off on their seabags going home without an inspection.

LOL! What do you think we went over there for? Oil? Terrorists? Ummm.... Noooooo.

The Taliban cracked down on the drug trade and the british soldiers come back from Afghanistan saying all they did was protect the poppy fields. At least they are not calling them Al-ciada. Notice that raid in the recent past when 6 CIA's were murdered.

Connect all the dots and you just might find the truth. A new light is dawning and there are alot of people that are going to be caught up in a roaches den.

+1 They do not want to strip thier own of money. And why should we be able to destroy drug fields, Obammy won't even let us shoot at the fuckers. What a shame, same thing as Vietnam, tie our troops hands.

WHAT ABOUT THE BRITISH?

Never mind the CIA.

Boy, you really were born yesterday, weren't you.

GEEZ i wonder why.... hummmm.... nope, i just cant figure it out.

What do you mean never mind the CIA? You're talking about Obama in this thread, not Gordon fucking Brown. lol

If Obammy has any credibility he would order an immediate strike against the crops.

He should issue an immediate order to eradicate the crops.
But he wont.

He's a dickhead and asshole. A disgusting joke. An abomination. Freaking hopeless.

Prick!

couldn't you be a bit more practical in your critique of the Commander in Chief???

you don't believe that the OPIATE trade is ready to be cut off of its main supplier; do you???

what would Rush do for oxycontin/vicodin/tylenol3/morphine and a few more goodies without those poppy plants going full bore???

idiot, the Taliban stopped the dope trade!!!

How Britain Ran Afghanistan's Helmand Opium
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Obama is a British sponsored creation. But that's subjective depending on knowledge and evidence.

READ Dope Inc.

The CIA plays second fiddle. But i do respect your position on this matter.

But do dig deeper.