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I know, how about repairing the thousands of years old irrigation systems you bombed to shit back in 2002 so their own farmland can be productive again. And I don't mean giving Halliburton $100 million cos they pretend they'll do it, help the people do it themsevles.

I know, Iknow, I'm just a DFH. Too flippin' radical when there are villages to be bombed and crops to be burnt.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 07:57:32 AM EST
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Helen:
I know, how about repairing the thousands of years old irrigation systems you bombed to shit back in 2002 so their own farmland can be productive again.

Where's the fun in that?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 09:35:45 AM EST
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Indeed.  Why create new versions of old targets when there's so much other stuff we can bomb to shit?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 09:41:55 AM EST
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well sooner or later the USAF is going to run out of things it hasn't bombed...

might as well get started on building it a whole new generation of targets, especially in areas where they've already removed the ability to shoot back.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 10:20:47 AM EST
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I'm sure we've had this discussion before, the thousand of year old irrigation system was destroyed by the Khan's horde several hundred years ago and has never been rebuilt Any bombing of the irrigation system was more a case of rearranging piles of rubble rather than anything else.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 10:51:18 AM EST
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I wondered...

Also, what is the difference in price now between opium and wheat? I'm guessing it's still massive, but, you know.

Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.

by Ephemera on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 11:01:46 AM EST
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per ton probably considerably different

U.S. Drug Policy Pushes Heroin: Newsroom: The Independent Institute

This drug, until recently, was cocaine. A Horse of the Same Color Sadly, this is no longer true. The South American drug cartels have discovered that growing opium poppies and refining their gum into heroin yields ten to twenty times more profit per unit shipped than cocaine. Peasants can annually earn $500 for one hectare of subsistence crop, $1,500 for coca, and $4,500 for opium poppies. Distributors can sell cocaine for perhaps $15,000 per kilo, but heroin brings $150,000 or more. Consequently, shipments of South American heroin to the United States are increasing at an alarming rate.


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat May 10th, 2008 at 11:57:20 AM EST
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