<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8825b769-dce3-4f96-8072-464d3645db24/DDB1B509-BA9F-4C10-9CAD-83E712AAEEF2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan" href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailykos.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><P><A href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/heroin/mccoy1.htm">http://www.druglibrary.org/...</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><STRONG>I did a bunch of research to try to discern what our government has been thinking and doing.   Enjoy the research and reach your own conclusions.  I'd love to hear what you think.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><P>Again, an emerging world-wide epidemic of cheap, dangerously pure heroin addiction is underway and the heroin is produced in the country we occupy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><P>According to the UN report, 98% of the country's opium is grown in just seven provinces where there are permanent Taliban settlements and where organised crime profits from the instability </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><P><A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7582018.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/...</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><P>We recently learned that Karzai's brother may be allegedly, shall we say "affiliated with both the CIA and the drug trade in Afghanistan".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><P><STRONG>Reports link Karzai's brother to heroin trade</STRONG> <BR />By James Risen <BR /><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/world/asia/04iht-05afghan.16689186.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/...</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><P>The War on Drugs is beginning, in retrospect, to look more like War for Drugs as history repeats itself.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/30/798615/-$10-A-Bag,-Heroin-Deaths-Spike-in-US-BurbsAfghanistan"><P>How many of our soldiers will come home heroin addicts?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DDB1B509-BA9F-4C10-9CAD-83E712AAEEF2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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