America's drug plan collapses in chaos (Condi to drop program) at the

[rodeodance]

cost of BILLIONS!!


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=638590

> America's drug plan collapses in chaos
> By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
>
> 15 May 2005
>
> Washington's "war on drugs" in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced.
>
> Last year, the hugely expensive effort to poison coca bushes - whose leaves are the source of cocaine - by aerial spraying ended in failure. More bushes were flourishing in January this year than in January 2004.
>
> Meanwhile, complaints have multiplied about the damage done by the chemical poisons to the health of humans, especially children, as well as to livestock, fish and the environment.
>
> Plan Colombia was designed to eradicate narcotics, control powerful left-wing guerrillas and strengthen the position of the US military in South America. The scheme was eventually expected to cost $7.5bn.......

[Divernan]

1. Thought U meant their smoke&mirrors Medicare prescription "coverage"

nt

[shanti]

2. wow

they certainly have the magic touch, don't they? EVERYTHING they do collapses in chaos!

[NorCalDem]

3. I've often been curious

why when they mention guerilla activities, why is it always "left-wing guerillas?" Is this another media attempt to make the "left" look bad?

[kzootalker]

6. I Hate That!!!

OOHH it makes me mad when they do that!!

[cap]

4. never mind Afghanistan

eom

[orwell]

5. More Crap

...from the mullahs of spin.

The biggest drug pushers on the planet work inside the intelligence agencies spurned on by their "benefactors", the global elite arms/drug/ and money laundering merchants of death.

Where the illegal drug trade flourishes, the military arms are sure to follow. There is no better way to foment conflict than for airplanes full of weapons (at a hefty profit) find their way into the "right" hands.