I think Charlie Sheen is a nutjob just like his father. He has no more business expecting the President to listen to him, than I do. Hollywood types are too full of themselves these days.
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i think its wrong for someone to cover up nine eleven even thow every one saw it happen
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**In fact, we are not eliminating poppy fields.**

**Report Shows Afghan Opium Production At Record Level(http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1078361.html)**

US/UK Soldiers guard the poppy fields with armed patrols.
"Although the poppy fields are beautiful to look at, 2 Para Patrols Platoon are on guard at all times."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7375000/7375494.stm
**The Taliban banned opium in 2001**

February 2001 Taliban Seem to Be Making Good on Opium Ban, U.N. Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/07/world/07AFGH.html

September 26 2001 Taliban Lifts Ban On Opium Production
http://www.unwire.org/unwire/20010926/18583_story.asp

Opium production history chart
http://www.freebase.com/view/wikipedia/images/en_id/15189611

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To actually answer the question, what _is_ the reason we are in Afghanistan, I will give the only explanations that make sense to me: 1) heroin -- Drugs = money; 2) control over fossils fuels; 3) control over territory (empire); 4) human attraction to war

***1. Heroin -- Drugs = Money***

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US

CIA opium smuggling Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking#Soviet_Afghanistan

CIA Venezuelan US cocaine delivery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking#Venezuelan_National_Guard_Affair

Narco Aggression: Russia accuses the U.S. military of involvement in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8180

Hamid Karzai appointed president of Afghanistan under UN auspices in Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai#Chairman_to_Interim_President

Reports link Karzai's brother to heroin trade
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html

Afghan Forces Confiscate Opium Cache, Capture Taliban Commander
http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11271:afghan-forces-confiscate-opium-cache-capture-taliban-commander&Itemid=195

Afghanistan: President Karzai Pardons Convicted Drug Traffickers
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/july/126044.htm

***2. Control over fossil fuels***

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Oil_Pipeline

Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan Natural Gas Pipeline Project
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Articles/AFG/afg_2003001.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline

Central Asia pipeline deal signed December 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2608713.stm

***3. Control over territory***

Strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game

***4. Human attraction to war***

How did all of these aggressive, largely unethical motivations result in an invasion and continued occupation? The best explanation I have heard is the theory given in the book *The Psychology of War : Comprehending Its Mystique and Its Madness*.

Basically, the idea is that 'mythical thinking' (as opposed to observation and rational thought) makes it possible to engage in activities (wars) that solve the most basic age-old human dilemma: the conflict between self and the group.

http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/p/psychology-of-war.shtml

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Put yourself in the position of U.S. leaders who see all of these strategic goals in Afghanistan.

***What do you think would have been the reaction if they had simply presented all of these reasons and asked the American public for permission to invade Afghanistan on this basis in September 2001?***

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