Mike Rosing wrote:
If the middle-eastern freedom fighters actually had ties to Mexico, not just sending some $ that way, you can kiss your texas ranch goodbye.
Let's see, Afghanistan produces more opium than any other place on the planet,
I've heard that too, and it may even be accurate, but I travelled through Af some years back (1974, before the Russian invasion and much else) and it very definitely is not what I saw. There was opium aplenty in the Shah's Iran. His family owned a lot of it. One of his relatives was busted at Paris airport bringing in several kilos of morphine and screaming about diplomatic immunity. We were offerred O in Teheran and our Iranian hosts were smoking it in Mashad. In Af, there was hashish more-or-less everywhere, and exceedingly high quality. Everyone from customs officials and military officers to street urchins and respectable merchants offerred it to us. I don't think that, in several weeks in the country, we ever spent more than a half hour in public without someone trying to sell us hash. Friends visited a warehouse with hundreds of kilos in it. We were not offerred opium. I'd say that if opium is indeed a major crop in Af now, then the situation was created by some combination of US pressure on other sources, the Islamic gov't in Iran suppressing it there, various groups -- including Bin Laden's lads -- needing money to fight the Russians, Taliban (probably with the help of the CIA and Pakistani Intelligence, who created them) needing money, ...
heroin gets orders of magnitude more $/kilo, so "terrorists" need to pay mexico to grow pot.
It's a big enough lie, most people will swallow it!
Sheesh, like the CIA needs another cash crop...