Taliban Back in Biz Thanks to Bush

According to the British newspaper The Independent, Helmand province in Afghanistan is about to produce "probably the biggest opium harvest in the history of a province that, last year, produced more than 20 per cent of the world's heroin on its own."

A law and order vacuum has allowed an increasingly well-organised drugs cartel, a corrupt local government and resurgent Taliban to structure the poppy cultivation of the province as never before.
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[Poppy harvester] Haji Shadi chuckled merrily as he described how the provincial governor's eradication team arrived at his fields, enjoyed a convivial cup of tea and then left again with a wink, $50 richer. $50 is a month's wages for most government employees.
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In his office in Kandahar, the province's director of drugs control, Gul Mohammad Shukran, shifted uncomfortably as The Independent ran through a list of well known millionaire drug smugglers in the province. "If I answer your questions I will be dead within three days," he said, showing us to the door.

W is the REAL "Poppy" Bush, fucking shit up the world over.

Read more about how affordable smack will be this Fall at a street corner near you. Also, read how optimistic The Independent is that current poll numbers spell doom for the Doomsday administration. I wish I could be that optimistic.