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JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 13 Jul 2009 22:08

IT most certainly is not worth it
bring our boys home

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

BrianW

BrianW Report 13 Jul 2009 22:04

Afghanistan is the major source of heroin for the drugs trade.

The Taliban fund their purchase of weapons by buying the opium from the farmers and selling it to the drug dealers.

International aid includes the issue of fertiliser which grows the opium and is also used to make the roadside bombs which kill our troops.

We grow opium in the UK to supply the NHS.

Why not buy the stuff from the Afghan farmers thereby cutting off the illegal supply at source and cutting the insurgents' funds?

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

BarneyKent

BarneyKent Report 13 Jul 2009 20:30

Is this country worth the lives of our boys and girls?

My Grandson is 19, he got back from Iraq a few weeks ago and now there is talk of sending his unit to Afghanistan. From what I can see of the place on TV and what I read in the press about the corruption in the Afghanistan government, I think we are mad to stay there.
It is a war we cannot win, Russia spent years trying, they threw everything at the Taliban except the Atom Bomb and they had to admit defeat and withdraw.
The whole country is not worth one drop of the blood of a British serviceman or woman.
What does everyone else think?

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