What a tremendous job the USA and UK have done (along with a dozen or so other soldiers from somewhere else)in freeing and bringing paece, prosperity and security to Afganistan and Iraq (not to mention the rest of the world):
Opium trade booms in 'basket-case' Afghanistan
"The opium harvest in Afghanistan this year will be one of the biggest on record, the Foreign Office said yesterday, and it has triggered a flood of heroin on Britain's streets.
The revelation will prove highly embarrassing for Tony Blair, who cited cutting the supply of heroin as one of the main reasons for the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001...
The Taliban had cracked down on drugs cultivators but the regime's fall led to an increase in production and this year's harvest will be the largest since the invasion.
Health workers warned yesterday that the consequences of the rise were already evident: cheaper, better quality heroin was arriving in Britain, luring thousands more youngsters into addiction than ever before.
At the time of the invasion, Mr Blair said: "We act because the al-Qa'ida network and the Taliban regime are funded in large parts on the drugs trade ? 90 per cent of all heroin sold in Britain originates from Afghanistan. Stopping that trade is directly in our interests."
He also told the Labour Party conference on 2 October: "The arms the Taliban are buying today are paid for with the lives of young British people buying their drugs on British streets. That is another part of their regime that we should seek to destroy." "
- Yeah right.
Blair will become expendable to the party and a fall guy one day when his squirmingly false innocence fails, but the work will continue as a new prize bullshitter takes his place. He has done well for the politicians, that is their way.
Governments have traditionally been the biggest traders in drugs, and carried out their actions legally and gloriously (in a drug war that was perpendicular to their about face sham modern drug war).That was until the inflamed moral conscience of the masses meant they had to relegate this activity to their secret services. The immesurable invisible money the drug trade brings is essential to the insatiable appetite for funds and bungs of the secret services and many front end government units too. And so their new territory Afganistan abounds and succeeds far more then it did under the previous invaders. Heroin is one of the (if not the) ultimate capitalist product. No advertising needed, no promotion as such, no nothing - People crawl thru shit to get it and beg and cry for it. Meanwhile the capitalist 'entrepeneur' sits back - money for nothing and chicks for free.
"The claim that cultivation tends to increase before declining gives no comfort and ... is not necessarily the case. It seems to me a hope more akin to peeing in the wind." (Labour MP Harry Cohen)
"Members believe that large areas of Afghanistan are back under the rule of warlords, controlling militias of up to 10,000 men, which are paid for by the profits of the illegal heroin trade."
- Job done:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=545400
A frontier too far
"It survived Soviet occupation, civil war, the Taliban and US-led invasion. But after 24 years of aid work, M?decins sans Fronti?res has been forced by the American military to flee Afghanistan...
A grim shadow was cast over the future of all aid missions to Afghanistan when the French organisation M?decins sans Fronti?res (MSF) said independent humanitarian work could no longer be carried out safely. MSF claimed the American military had endangered the lives of humanitarian volunteers by blurring the distinction between soldiers and aid workers. Five MSF workers were killed last month...
Kenny Gluck, MSF's operations director, denounced US military programmes in southern Afghanistan, which have sometimes promised aid only to villages which provide intelligence on Taliban fighters.
He said: "MSF denounces attempts to use humanitarian aid to win hearts and minds. That jeopardises the aid to people in need and endangers the lives of humanitarian aid workers ... These soldiers are often out of uniform. It's hard to know what nationality they are."
He added: "The US-backed coalition has consistently sought to co-opt humanitarian assistance to build support for its own military and political ambitions."...
The shooting to death of three European and two Afghan staff members last month was described as unprecedented in MSF's 30-year history of working in the world's most violent conflicts. The motive has not been established, but valuables were not taken from the victims' clearly marked car and they were killed in an area known for opium poppy production. MSF believes its staff were deliberately targeted...
One aid worker who has been in Kabul for three years said: "Although the economy is doing well and Afghans are more confident, but foreigners who know the country have never been more scared. There's a real sense of dread about what will happen during the election campaign."
- Economy doing well? Major export = heroin.....UK and USA occupied territory...hmmmmm
"About 20,000 American troops are in Afghanistan. A few British soldiers are stationed as peace-keepers, some manning provincial reconstruction teams, small garrisons which have proved controversial with aid workers, but many have welcomed the security they have brought to cities outside the capital.
Aid groups' concerns centre on the actions of combat troops trying to win over villagers in areas afflicted by guerrilla warfare. Despite years of work by organisations such as MSF in the country, many villagers now confuse aid workers and soldiers, Mr Gluck claimed. "We have seen military people with weapons and in white cars providing health care. How can you expect Afghans to distinguish?"
Aid workers particularly criticise US special forces teams who sometimes operate clinics to win over local populations or distribute sweets and toys to village children."
- That's a beautiful spot on the moral high ground GWB and his minions occupy.
Good work
Job done:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=545775
Iraq is now al-Qa'ida's battleground, say MPs
"Al-Qa'ida has turned Iraq into a "battleground" with appalling consequences for the country's people, an influential Commons committee said today.
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee said the Coalition's failure to establish law and order in parts of the country has, in addition, created a "vacuum" into which criminals and militias have poured.
The MPs concluded that an insufficient number of foreign troops deployed to Iraq has contributed to the deterioration in security."
- Yeah right - Al Quaida who have no credible links with Iraq (9/11 commission) have turned Iraq into a battleground? Doh! Didn't the lying, cheating duplicitous bastards who went in there with armies and air forces do that? Or are we really supposed to be so dumb to swallow this shit?
Yeah send more troops more guns more more more! The US government started something it can't finish here and the cowardly UK government just sucked their dicks. Or is this (almost) what was supposed to happen? After all they have their never ending war now, they have a constant security threat which supports the governments' argument for our need of them and their draconian measures; and most of all the $$$$$ - the oil and poppies are (nearly) in their sweaty hands (if they can take them off their dicks long enough!).
job done:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=545846
Mission accomplished March 2003 - Welcome to the new Middle East - land of milk and honey. 
heh heh heh...how long can the Empire keep this up? I remember someone putting a post up not long ago about how the USA could defeat the entire world's armies combined. Doh! Anyone home? Pish, absolute pish! What a joke!
My advice to any nations out there is get a nuke - you will get left alone and most probably the Americans will build a port to ship you aid and anything you want.
Anyone without a nuke had better watch out, especially if you are tired of having your strings pulled.
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