All you people who give me shit for these "conspiracies," well, at least fathom this possibility:

We're in Afghanistan to control the heroin market, not to find people in caves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=1&hp

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.

The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home.

The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raise significant questions about America’s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.
(more in article)

cute

Yea, it's cute that we're going to have to send 40,000 more troops over there. With all due respect to the troops and those who serve our country, I don't think they (and we) know the whole story.

Unthinkable!

::mock incredulity::

POPPY NIGGA!

They're being ordered to burn opium fields. How do they not know?

siiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhhhh

The CIA has done far worse.

Like assassinate Kennedy?

How about stage terror attacks in Iran in the 50s when Iran wanted to nationalize their oil?

Or start a war in Iraq when Saddam wanted to start selling oil in the more-stable Euro as opposed to petrodollars?

Oh wait, that was out in the open.

Wish I had the credentials to work for the CIA. Sounds so exciting.

bump. Called it. Except my number was off =(

anyways read the article

NO WAI

well aint THAT a bitch