If we could find a way to torch these suckers, get the smoke to disseminate throughout afghanistan.....the war would be over. Done. Finito.
The last thing you wanna do when yer high...is run around and kill people. On 10/12/06, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From Cnn.com > > > http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/12/canada.troops.marijuana.reut/index.html > > Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants > POSTED: 5:12 p.m. EDT, October 12, 2006 > > OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants > in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- > almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall. > > General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said > Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In > response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their > vehicle with marijuana. > > "The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very > readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices. ... > And as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't > dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in > Ottawa, Canada. > > "We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We > tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so > full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he > said. > > Even successful incineration had its drawbacks. > > "A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those [forests] did > catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that > had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right > course of action," Hiller said dryly. > > One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the > army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'." > > Copyright 2006 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be > published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. > > -- > 'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty > seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner' > > robert deniro - heat (1995) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:217448 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
