Is it a coincidence that opium is a major product in Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq.?
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Afghanistan is the world's number 1 opium exporter. I don't think the climate and ground is good for producing opium in Iraq and Iran. Sounds like someone was trying to sell propagranda by including Iraq and Iran in the same category as Afghanistan. Oh, well, I guess it's true as someone famous said, "Propaganda is the opium for the masses."
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might be iran next year
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I believe if America keeps doing focusing on fighting with Iran and Iraq then another country (China or Japan) is going to be the most industrailized and richest. Also, the world is going to be so globalized, we are going to be outsourcing every job possible to keep prices down and to make the big buisnesses even bigger.
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Nope. If someone said that, they are lying and not very creative. Poppy seeds, however, make you test positive for opium. Fear the poppy.
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I think there may be a relationship between Iraq and Iran. Iran will eventually step in and take advantage of the chaos.
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The U.N. will do some checking to see if it came from sources out side of Iran or if it was actually produced there
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Not at all.\n\nIn Afghanistan, the Taliban is actually making a bit of a comeback this month.  Most of the country is under the control of warlords with just a small portion around Kabul that is actually controlled by the American forces and the Afghani government that they installed.  The rest of the country is pure chaos.  (Kabul isn't much better).\n\nIn Iraq, the "coaltion" forces have done a pretty good job of securing the single square mile in central Bagdad known as the Green Zone, and now most of the road to the airport is reasonable secure as well.  Unfortunately, they have "secured" the Green Zone by shooting anybody who tries to enter, so that's maybe not a great example of "controlling the situation".\n\nSadly, neither country is even close to being secure, despite the lies that come out of Washington.  Does the term "lipstick on a pig" mean anything to you?  This particular pig has been run over, disembowled, set on fire and sexually assaulted.  But my! doesn't that lipstick look pretty!
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I think so. Iran is just advancing in chemical technology, just like Russia, India and Israel.
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It is simply  Profit = Iran + Iraq + democracy - innocent lives.\nIt is the same Oil, but what the only difference is the price that the USA has to pay for it now. The only winners in this whole war on terrorism is corporate America, but there are plenty of losers.
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No!  The only reason we are in Iraq is to finish what Bush's daddy couldn't.  If you recall Iraq wan't the origional problem, it was Afghanistan.  Why don't you hear much about the Afghan. part of the war?
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nope...most of it was used in wars in iran and iraq
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At least it is Egypt.  I have one son in the Army who has already spent one year in Baghdad and is now stationed in Afghanistan.
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Buying opium to stop farmers from growing it is like buying wheat to stop farmers from growing it.   Opium is nothing but an agricultural commodity, like any other.   All they will do is grow more & sell it to their private customers.  In fact the exporters will simply out bid the US government; which will have to raise its bid which will lead then to up their bid & we'll end up with a spiraling market; like with any other commodity in short supply.  More & more farmers will get into the market & things will be infinitely worse than it is now.     \n\nAs to the suppression cost; it is irrelevant because we are NOT suppressing the trade.  Every penny spent on fighting it is wasted.
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I agree that this is obvious.  Iraq was probably the hegemon in the Middle East before the US invasion, though Iran had already been clamoring for increased power and influence in the region.  Now that Iraq has fallen into great turmoil, Iran now has an opportunity to increase its influence and establish itself as the leading Muslim nation, much as the US is considered the leading democratic nation.  Iran has much to gain from a destabilized Iraq, and is thus contributing to the violence through weapons sales.
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the axis of evil : North Korea, Iraq, and Iran
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Nah, the new opium of the masses is shopping....ie commercialism !!
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frustrating situation and rising resentment. I can't think of any other nations who supported the vietnam war, that was the problem. Drugs didn't have anything to do with vietnam, it was a domestic issue.