"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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Let me see if I understand: You have herbicides which the manufacturer
honestly says will make people hideously ill if used on food crops. You
use
it anyway, knowing full well that you will sicken your own citizens.
What
message does THAT send? "You have a choice of being killed quickly by
criminals, or killed slowly by your own government. Choose." Is that the
message?

It's better than doing NOTHING.

If you were the president of Colombia, you'd continue poisoning your own
people because it's better than nothing??? I just want to be clear about
what you're saying. Is this correct?




Gee, maybe GWB should send in the next group of troops there huh?

Pretend you're the president. Please describe clearly the reason you'd
give
the American people for such a military action.

To rid the world of deviant thugs who have little respet for law, and
for other people.

Whew. You're really close to the edge now.





I was referring not to the farmers, but to government officials, clergy,
foreign reporters and workers. Are you aware that 3 American civilians
are
still being held hostage down there? I thought you told me that you DO
read
or listen to legitimate news sources. Read the link below. This was on
60
Minutes a month or so ago. The story's been kept sort of quiet because
our
government has some other weird reason for not wanting to move on it.

Maybe because the story is lacking in credibility. There are a lot of
"stories" that make the rounds in the leftist propaganda rags. You may
think the reason that they rarely see the light of day in the mainstream
press, is due to some "vast right wing conspiracy" trying to keep a lid
on it. The more obvious reason could be that they lack truth.

The terrorists permitted one Colombian journalist to film an interview with
the captives. This film was shown on TV here, and a copy was given to our
state department. The captives' families confirmed that it was their
relatives shown in the movie, and the state department positively identified
the person who led the journalist into the jungle as a terrorist leader.

Try again, Dave. It's real. The state department has commented on it
publicly.



Write to your representatives and tell them 30
years is long enough to see that a program doesn't work. No more
money
for
Colombia.

I don't agree. We need to form a combined task force to sweep in and
burn the druggies out.

Yeah. OK, Dave. We'll just sweep right in there. Do you know that
opium's
being grown again on a large scale basis in Afghanistan, and we know
about
it? As a longtime knowledgable gardener, you know that in many parts of
that
country, there's little else that'll grow well enough to be of economic
use
to the natives.

So once again, you become the apologist. You'd give them a "pass" on
growing substances which are illegal in most countries, and which bring
nothing but eventual pain and psychological issues to those who use
them, becasue you see no alternative? Maybe in places like Afghanistan,
farming should not be their main commercial product.

Ooops. You stepped in **** again, Dave. YOUR PRESIDENT is giving Afghanistan
a pass, as are our own military leaders, because they know there's no other
way.



You really are a mess. Beginning this weekend, you will begin reading
the
Sunday NY Times and Washington Post from beginning to end. And, you'll
listen to both the morning and evening NPR news broadcasts.

If you can prove to me that these are not the left biased propaganda
sources that I know they are, then I might consider it. Otherwise I'll
stick to more credible sources.


Please name your credible sources.