Re: BIG GUMMINT dumb & dumber

From: GEM (webmaster_at_gemsgallery.org)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:28:01 -0500

"none" <prigator@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1109534354.302528.27100@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> David Polewka wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/international/asia/27afghan.html?hp
> >
> > Afghans Accuse U.S. of Secret Spraying to Kill Poppies
> > By CARLOTTA GALL
> >
> > Published: February 27, 2005
> >
> > KANAI, Afghanistan - Abdullah, a black-turbaned shepherd, said he was
> > watching over his sheep one night in early February when he heard a
> > plane pass low overhead three times. By morning his eyes were so
> > swollen he could not open them and the sheep around him were dying in
> > convulsions.
>
> Pure hogwash.
>
> Opium poppies are easily killed by common liquid herbicides such as
> 24D, dimethylamine or others you can find at your local garden shop.
> Weed b Gon will do the job, and it doesn't kill sheep.
>
> Poppy eradication is done by spraying directly on the poppy fields. No
> pilot in his right mind would try that at night. It would be downright
> wasteful and too costly to spray all of Afghanistan. Stupid idea.
>
> There is no powder for the purpose. The idea is for the herbicide to
> stick on the leaves of the plants for a few hours until it is absorbed.
> Only a liquid will do that.
>
> It's hard to believe that the editors at the New York Times swallowed
> this story.
>
> Doug Chandler

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They did not swallow the story.
They were ordered to print it and simply followed orders.

The purpose is clear however.
To make the usual portion of the American Public think that the American
Military is secretly destroying the Afghan poppy crops and preventing the
heroin from being made and eventually distributed in the USA.

Since it is becoming obvious to so many folks that wherever the US military
goes, hard drugs and highly trained drug cartels immediately follow, this
was a simple Rove-Ruse to try and convince the "most of the people, who can
be fooled always", that the monstrously huge Afghan poppy crop is not an
Investment of the US Federal Government.

Which it is of course. :)

GEM