'Everything about the U.S. policy toward the Afghan drug trade---now ought to be questioned.'

[seafan]

Spencer Ackerman writes:


October 27, 2009

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At this point, everything about the U.S. policy toward the Afghan drug trade — from tolerance to eradication during the Bush administration to an evolving approach to cultivating alternatives — now ought to be questioned. As in questioned in open congressional session. CIA money funds a politically connected drug dealer. Opium funds the Taliban. We are in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. How much CIA money has indirectly funded the Taliban?

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman who brokered Hamid Karzai’s acceptance of the runoff vote, said in a speech yesterday that in his talks with President Karzai, the subject of Ahmed Wali Karzai’s ties to the drug trade came up, and Kerry’s been unable to confirm anything. “I have requested, from our intelligence sources (and) our law enforcement folks, the smoking gun,” Kerry said. “What evidence? (And) nobody has (any) … Nobody’s given me hard-and-fast evidence. So this (accusation) swirls around.”

Wonder why no one has told Kerry anything …

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish, 8 February 2007



Let's see.... Ahmed Wali Karzai, Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch, Manuel Noriega, Oliver North.... what do they have in common---- why, the Bush Family and its CIA, of course.



This seems to be a major thread unraveling in George W. Bush's failed mission in Afghanistan.



But, not to worry. Bush has a new gig as a motivational speaker.

[unkachuck]

1. "How much CIA money has indirectly funded the Taliban?"

....and we're still living with the raygun/bush crap of 30 years ago, it never ends....just more perpetual war from perpetual war-mongers and perpetual war-profiteers....

....Are we still in Afghanistan? Why? Out of Afghanistan NOW!

[annabanana]

2. The CIA/Drug Money connection is old and deep. It's a can of worms, but

it's got to be opened sooner or later.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. K&R