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A Talking Horse · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 139 Location: Cove Gap

After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs

Great read...
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.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2709 Location: Chambersburg

I'd like to say it's a surprise, but really, has anyone been fooled by the big, bad War on Drugs? War on Terror is the same thing...costly and hugely ineffective. Confused

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Dave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 162

Did George turn in the names of his former suppliers?

Wasting money prosecuting medical marijuanna is just too aggrevating.

It not hard to see that the pharmaceutical companies don't want to compete against a drug you can grow in your backyard.

Eith legaloize pot or make it a finable midemeanor.

munchkin · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 235

munchkin · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 235

The war on poverty is a bigger loser

It has cost $9 trillion and has lasted for over 40 years

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2234 Location: Chambersburg

I think it's hard to prove what "terror" truly constitutes and it would be equally difficult to subjectively argue that the "War on Terror" has explicitly prevented attacks. Although, it hasn't. There have horribly destructive bombings in both India and Spain.

Or do our allies not count?

munchkin · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 235

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2234 Location: Chambersburg

What, like how we tracked an captured Osama bin Laden?

munchkin · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 235

We have got all his top guys, and his financial manager. We have delivered many blows to his organization

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2234 Location: Chambersburg

AnonyMouse · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 394

I met a man walking around constantly snapping his fingers above his head. I asked him what he was doing. He said that he's keeping tigers away. I told him that there aren't tigers anywhere near here. He said, "See, it's working!"

It's the same with the so-called "war on terror." The Bush crew has slammed some barn doors after horses have left (no box cutters after they used box cutters, no shoes after they used a shoe bomb, etc. etc.)

Just because there hasn't been a large scale attack in the US doesn't mean their strategy is working any more than snapping your fingers in Chambersburg is keeping tigers away.
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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2234 Location: Chambersburg

They say it took about six years alone to plan the 9/11 attacks; and I have no doubt that they are planning more. I have a hard time believing that Bush administration policy alone has prevented terrorist violence on our soil.

What has happened is that going to the airport is now an unbelievable hassle and we're on "color code orange" which doesn't mean a damn thing. Nice job Ridge; you have anything to add Alberto Gonzalez?

Alberto: "I don't recall"

Dave · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 162

Ummmm Munchkin, just who was President at the time of 9-11?

Next time you are in the Upton area, take a drive up to the scales at Mount Garbage. Stop at the scale house and look atop the pole on the right hand side. There is a radiation detector.

Now, call your buddy Bush and ask him why Mount Garbage has a radiation detector but our ports don't have one.

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2234 Location: Chambersburg

Now Dave, how can we spend on money on practical things like protecting our ports when we have a multi-billion-approaching-trillion dollar war to fight in Iraq?