What John Waters thinks the president said...

When asked about the upcoming eradication program, John Waters, head of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, sounded anything but decisive:

To assuage those fears, Mr Walters ruled out the use of planes and said spraying would initially use ground-based techniques. President Hamid Karzai had approved herbicide use, he said. "I think the president has said yes, and I think some of the ministers have repeated yes."

But Mr Karzai's office was less sure. One official would not confirm the change. "We are thinking about the issue and looking to see how we might proceed," he said.

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[Arno Takter]

If US is going to ethnic- cleanse Afghanistan, why not sow salt like the Romans did, and poison their irrigation wells?
Salt's a lot cheaper.

This is herdsmen country, but DoD/Big Pharma is going to use US chemical weapons that **kill off grasses?!**

And wonder what Round Up's half-life is in the arid south with ~6" rain a year?
Wouldn't that be war crime?

http://www.rawa.org/drought06.htm