robaus Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 Why don't the allies say to the Afghan poppy farmers: Plant sunflowers instead and we'll pay double or triple the price for your crop that your fellow poppy farmers are getting from the Taliban. The cost would be chickenfeed compared to the damage the poppy proceeds do to our allied forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 The point is still the same, they'd buy arms with the money and use them against the U.S. Soldiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 Meanwhile ... Iraqis allege sex abuse at the British Embassy An Iraqi cleaner and two cooks claim that a culture of sexual harassment, abuse and bullying exists at the British Embassy in Baghdad. The middle-aged cleaner told The Times that a British contractor with KBR, the company hired to maintain the embassyâ??s premises, offered to double her daily pay if she would stay the night with him. When she refused, she said, her pay was cut and she was later dismissed. The Iraqis accuse the embassy of leaving the abuse unchallenged and failing adequately to respond to complaints against several British managers for KBR. The company was allowed to conduct its own inquiry, an arrangement criticised as a very serious conflict of interest. The complainants â?? the cleaner and two male cooks who worked in the embassy canteen â?? say that some KBR managers groped Iraqi staff regularly, paid or otherwise rewarded them for sex and dismissed those who refused or spoke out. The British Embassy heard the complaints initially but left KBR to investigate; a KBR report found that there was no case to answer. The three Iraqis lost their jobs at the embassy, in the Green Zone. They spoke to The Times in the hope that the Foreign Office would conduct an independent inquiry. The allegations, outlined in testimonies taken by embassy officials last June and obtained by this newspaper, describe a culture of sexual harassment. The cleaner said that on one occasion her manager â??threw many $100 notes on the desk and said, â??take whatever you want and stay overnight and I will pay you double [your daily pay]â??. â? KBR â?? a global engineering and services company that has a similar contract to provide catering and cleaning services to the US Embassy in Baghdad â?? denies the claims. In an e-mail to The Times sent from its Houston headquarters, it said that there was no evidence to support the allegations. A Foreign Office spokesman said: â??Weâ??ve discussed [the investigation] with KBR in detail and are satisfied.â? The Iraqi claimants say that they were never interviewed by KBR investigators. They told The Times that their KBR managers accused them of â??poor workâ? and â??lyingâ?Â. The managers, who denied the charges, were reinstated after month-long suspensions with pay. There are no claims of wrongdoing against staff directly employed by the embassy. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 The complainants â?? the cleaner and two male cooks who worked in the embassy canteen â?? say that some KBR managers groped Iraqi staff regularly, paid or otherwise rewarded them for sex and dismissed those who refused or spoke out. Charming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robaus Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 >>The point is still the same, they'd buy arms with the money and use them against the U.S. Soldiers. ... but at least you'd cut back the opium poppy/heroin trade, and you would keep the farmers onside by not destroying their crops. Thereafter, it would be up to the miltary leaders to further win the hearts and minds of the reformed opium poppy farmers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Speaking of Marines ... Code Pink Protesters Try Witchcraft at Anti-Marine Rallies Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center. The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for "Witches, clowns and sirens day," the last of the group's weeklong homage to Mother's Day. "Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews. The group's week of themed protests, which included days to galvanize grannies and bring-your-daughter-to-protest, appears to have done little to boost its flagging numbers. A FOX News camera, which has a 24/7 live shot of the recruiting center's front door, recorded little action, and the gatherings have, until this point, been ill attended. Hags R Us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 This isn't rocket science really when you think about it. Watch for the increase in supplies of dope coming to your neighborhood soon. Yeah sadly that is right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robaus Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 US changes tack on Afghan poppies Maybe the G8 ministers are reading Thai360! robaus wrote 08/05/2008 "Why don't the allies say to the Afghan poppy farmers: Plant sunflowers instead and we'll pay double or triple the price for your crop that your fellow poppy farmers are getting from the Taliban. The cost would be chickenfeed compared to the damage the poppy proceeds do to our allied forces." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 Gives new meaning to the term "buddy poppies". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 yep.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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