Reply #4: I have never heard of a Presidential Order or law passed

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to specifically make illegal the CIA's importation of Heroin and Cocaine. Wonder why? It's a good deal, the CIA imports the major loads and the DEA makes sure they have a lock on the market.

I totally agree with the post above that Afghan farmers have been beating the hashish drums (Afghan red anyone?) and growing poppies since the beginning of time. The Taliban cannot show up with enough force to threaten all the farmers to give up their crops. Remember, this is wild country, everybody has guns and allegiances. The best way to get a poor farmer to give up his/her crop come at them with a nickel instead of a bomb.

I guess that the fact that the Taliban had effectively stopped the poppy harvest is being intentionally forgotten. All that can ever be wrong anywhere is either Al-Qaida or the Taliban. I've gotten to where the inclusion of those words included with an accusation is automatically labeled "LIE".