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Nothing of consequence.

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Since the Taliban and al-Quaeda don't control Afghanistan anymore, they won't be making much money off the poppy fields there.  

Would it be nice if those farmers were growing food instead of drugs?  Yes, but I don't see how it would be cost-effective to try to make that happen.  The US has already spent years of effort and billions of dollars to stop drug production in South America without having much of an impact.

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ARlady, my post was merely in support of tayous1's call for order.

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ARLady I'm telling everyone to stop flaming. I don't care how started. Someone need's to be the bigger person here and just let the person be. It always feel's better to let a person be a troll then to throw gas on the fire.

jd123, I'm not taking ARladys or anyones side on this at all. I just don't want this post to be locked out. If people are having a problem with what you say then back your words up with fact. It's better to let a person know they are wrong by showing them the facts then it is to straight out say to the wold there wrong . You know why because you know they are and they know they are.

As I said I'm not taking anyones side here if someone thinks I'm then write me. I respect ever ones options because it is there right to speak there mind. NO ONE has the right to belittle or insult someone because of what they feel or say. WE ALL MUST RESPECT EACH OTHER.

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Let's see, the CIA/intelligence community trained, funded, and created Osama Bin Laden, hence the intelligence apparatus did in fact do this.

In addition, the events of 9-11-01 simply could not have happened without willful, conscious help from both this administration, intelligence community, and several arms of our current government both elected and un-elected.

It was a planned event ala Columbine and all the high school shooting designed to alarm the public complete with pre-determined patsies (guns, Osama, Oswald, etc) and then come in and appease the masses with Constitution and BOR pillaging legislation.

How about this little mind-twister--If the intelligence apparatus missed the planning and carrying out of an event of this scale completely, how in the hell can they 3 hours later have the complete bios of every single "terrorist" on those planes? Doesn't make sense, cannot make sense.

The trauma of seeing those planes take out some of the largest buildings on US soil and killing all those folks precludes the minds of most folks from ever realizing the lies inherent in the official story, though.

Shadow Government Activated for U.S.
Fri Mar 1, 2:28 AM ET
By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) - A "shadow government" consisting of 75 or more senior officials has been living and working secretly outside Washington since Sept. 11 in case the nation's capital is crippled by terrorist attack, a senior government official says.

Such an operation was conceived as a Cold War precaution against nuclear attack during the Eisenhower administration but never used until now. It went into effect in the first hours after the terror attacks and has evolved over time, said the official, who spoke Thursday night only on condition of anonymity.

The shadow government plan was activated out of heightened fears that the al-Qaida terrorist network might obtain a portable nuclear weapon. U.S. intelligence has no specific knowledge of such a weapon, but the risk was great enough to warrant the activation of a plan, the official said.

Under the classified "Continuity of Operations Plan," which was first reported by The Washington Post in its Friday editions, high-ranking officials representing their departments have begun rotating in and out of the assignment at one of two fortified locations along the East Coast.

The Post said the first rotations were made in late October or early November, a fact confirmed by a senior government official late Thursday.

Officials who are activated for the duty live and work underground 24 hours a day, away from their families, according to the Post. The shadow government has sent home most of the first wave of deployed personnel, replacing them most commonly at 90-day intervals.

A government official who spoke to The Associated Press said the groups usually number 70 to 150 people, depending on the level of threat detected by U.S. intelligence. He said President Bush does not foresee ever needing to turn over government functions to the secret operation, but believed it was prudent to implement the long-standing plan in light of the gathering war on terrorism and persistent threats of future attacks.

The team, drawn from every Cabinet department and some independent agencies, would seek to prevent the collapse of essential government functions in the event of a disabling blow to Washington, the official said.

The underground government would try to contain disruptions of the nation's food and water supplies, transportation links, energy and telecommunications networks, public health and civil order, the Post reported. Later, it would begin to reconstitute the government.

The government-in-waiting is an extension of a policy that has kept Vice President Dick Cheney in secure, undisclosed locations away from Washington. Cheney has moved in and out of public view as threat levels have fluctuated.

As next in line to power behind Bush, he would need help running the government in a worst-case scenario

"We take this issue extraordinarily seriously, and are committed to doing as thorough a job as possible to ensure the ongoing operations of the federal government," Joseph W. Hagin, White House deputy chief of staff, told the Post, though he declined to discuss details. "In the case of the use of a weapon of mass destruction, the federal government would be able to do its job and continue to provide key services and respond."

According to the Post, the backup government consists generally of officials from top career ranks, from GS-14 and GS-15 to members of the Senior Executive Service. The White House is represented by a "senior-level presence," one official said, but well below such Cabinet-ranked advisers as Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Many departments, including Justice and Treasury, have completed plans to delegate statutory powers to officials who would not normally exercise them, the Post said. Others do not need to make such legal transfers, or are holding them in reserve.

The report said civilians deployed for the operation are not allowed to take their families and may not tell anyone where they are going or why.

The two sites of the shadow government make use of local geological features to render them highly secure, the Post said. They are well stocked with food, water, medicine and other consumable supplies, and are capable of generating their own power.

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Let's see, the CIA/intelligence community trained, funded, and created ...snip...

I will leave with the following quote that sums up my feeling.

"Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth".  Ghandi

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I wlll be called paranoid, ignorant, unpatriotic and all other manner of things for saying so--I don't give a damn. I will leave with the following quote that sums up my feeling.

"Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth".  Ghandi

Well, whoismaking money off those fields?

And how cost effective is the War on Drugs?

Why not napalm the entire crop?

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Thank you shooter69, for taking this apart. DJbump, you don't offer a hint of proof. You start with suppositions and extend them into conclusions: faulty logic.

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You should be listening to another quote, this one from Lincoln:  "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Yes, DJ Jazzy Bump and the Fresh Paranoia, you ARE unpatriotic and you ARE a nutcase.  You belong over in Palestine, jumping up and down in the street and throwing rocks with your brothers who think that George W Bush and Ariel Sharon personally flew the planes into the WTC.

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I sincerely wish I could grab a bunch of us from here, gather our OWN weaponery & go visit all those camel jockeys that I see burning the US flags in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, etc. etc.

Tayous, I dont see a steady state of war, what I see is a series of 'in & out' campaigns like Afghanistan. The underlying cause of this war is the fundamentalist Muslims vs. the Christian/secular West. This is why i used the Hundred Years' War as an analogy. The populace will not stand for another VietNam, so it will be operations with a break in between. BTW for the sake of DJ bump, there is a MOUNTAIN of physical evidence that our intel agencies were aware of something, but lacking specifics, no action was taken.
The casualty of the War on Drugs was half of our civil rights. The casualty of the War on Poverty has been our personal income. I suspect the casualty of the War on Terrorism will be the remander of the Bill of Rights. God I hope I am wrong.

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 The casualty of the War on Drugs was half of our civil rights.