This massive problem is yet another that 100% owned by Bush and the GOP. The reverse Midas touch in action again. If this is what people want, they should continue to vote for the Republican party this fall.
Doug Wankel, director of the U.S. anti-narcotics task force in Afghanistan, warned that the illicit trade in opium and heroin threatened the country's fledgling democracy, instituted after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime nearly five years ago by U.S.-led forces.
"This country could be taken down by this whole drugs problem," he told reporters in Kabul echoing strong rhetoric voiced by Afghanistan's beleaguered President Hamid Karzai last month. "We have seen what can come from Afghanistan, if you go back to 9/11. Obviously the U.S. does not want to see that again."
