Ever see a film called "Lord of War" with Nicholas Cage?

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Someone ought to do something about it...

It doesn't generally get out on airplanes, but it's not that hard to land a small prop plane at an isolated unpaved airport. Then it makes it's way to another country where the customs officials are bought off and loaded on to a ship and sent to C. America where it's brought in past more crooked customs officials.
Secondly, OBL is just over six feet tall and the idea that he's on dialysis is a myth.

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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? - Psalm 27:1

The problem with taxing this product is that the majority of opium being produced is coming from the Helmat province. The helmat province is controlled by the Taliban and its allies, so there would be no way for the central government to tax a product coming from an area it doesn't control. Also, there is no way in heck the US government and its allies that are propping up the central government would ever let this happen.

However the irony is that though it is illegal, the government is afraid to eradicate crops because they fear that this will alienate the farmers and turn them to the Taliban and against them. Basically the government is between a rock and a hard place.

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"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." —George Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001

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