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Talibannabis
Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants
POSTED: 5:12 p.m. EDT, October 12, 2006 Adjust font size: Decrease fontDecrease font Enlarge fontEnlarge font OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall. General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana. "The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices. ... And as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa, Canada. "We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said. Even successful incineration had its drawbacks. "A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those [forests] did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hiller said dryly. One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'."
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10-12-2006, 09:16 PM
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Chief Joints of Staff to Afghanistan theater commander: "We better get some coverage up there. The Canadians are going to be struggling with that enemy for years."
Seriously, though, this story is comedy gold.
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10-12-2006, 09:43 PM
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I really wish those fundamentalist-types would stop the barbaric practice of stoning people to death.
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10-12-2006, 10:38 PM
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...and thus another metal band name is coined.
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10-12-2006, 10:56 PM
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Two nicely written sections back to back  SI
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10-12-2006, 11:31 PM
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Just round up some hippies and send them over. The forest will be gone in a week.
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10-13-2006, 01:43 AM
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But then who will attend Cal games?
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10-13-2006, 02:33 AM
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Hmmmmm...that's quite the conundrum. |
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10-13-2006, 04:00 AM
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Another unintended consequence of our country's insane drug laws.
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10-14-2006, 04:06 PM
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10-14-2006, 04:11 PM
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Why does the scene from "History of the World, Pt. 1" keep popping into my head when reading this?
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10-14-2006, 06:03 PM
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And you guys wondered why we paid so much money to get Ricky Williams up to Toronto.... and then he sort of vanished.
It's all coming together now, isn't it?
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10-14-2006, 06:07 PM
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Not quite as funny since another two of our soldiers died there today.
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10-14-2006, 10:19 PM
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i wasd going to type something but stopped cuz im drunkl
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