Pubdate: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 Source: Birmingham Post-Herald (AL) Copyright: 2002 Birmingham Post Co. Contact: http://www.postherald.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/46 Author: Donald Dunlap Related: http://www.narcoterror.org/ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?203 (Terrorism) BLACKMAILING We free Afghanistan from the Taliban and what do the farmers begin to grow. Opium poppies. The farmers don't care to grow wheat because they get 30 times the amount for the drug crop. The Afghan farmers are blackmailing the world. They tell America and other nations, pay us and we will not grow opium poppies. So we pay them this year and next year they will renew the threat. The other side of this situation is we are told that millions are starving in Afghanistan and American children should collect money to feed them. The farmers don't appear to care about feeding their people, they are driven by the big money from the drug crop. We will see in no time heroin from Afghanistan coming to America. This is wrong. We should simply wipe out the drug crops the same as we have done to the Taliban. We have the military equipment to accomplish this task. If we don't stop this crop in Afghanistan, the drug problem will make Sept. 11 look like a walk in the park. What is the difference between the drug dealers transporting these drugs to America and the terrorists? Nothing. They are destroying America. Donald Dunlap, 1335 Montevallo Road, Irondale - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake