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The Poppies Still Grow in Afghan fields 
(Memorial Day and Poppies)


I am sharing this wonderful article by Raymond E. Hall for Memorial Day:

The Poppies Still Grow in Afghan fields (Memorial Day and Poppies)
Many of you have heard the poem, “In Flanders Fields The Poppies Grow.” They are described as a commemoration of the lives lost by so many in World War I. The poppies still grow in Afghanistan for a different reason.
Far from being a commemoration of all the blood and treasure lost in that country, they signify the power of the military industrial complex. These poppies were and are the most significant cash crop in this entire pitifully poor country. The cash generated by these poppies provided funds for the continual arming of the Al Quaeda, Taliban, and whoever else wished to fight against the infidel occupants of their country.
And who would be selling these arms to these radicals? The military industrial complex of course. Their objective is to sell arms. To who is not a big, ethical, or concientious consideration.
We could have easily agent oranged these poppies early on in the Afghan war, depriving our enemy of the major source of their cash for arms. Why was that not done? It would have greatly shortened the war. With the poppies gone and no money for arms, supplies, and food, the folks fighting us would have no real choice but to return to their goat farming. But our troops stood down and let the poppies grow.
Where did the order to let the poppies grow originate? The word came down from military industrial complex, through our government powers that be, to our military commanders. “You are to exempt the Afghan poppy crop from the legitimate list of the targets of war.”
And much more military equipment, which is the product that the military industrial complex is in the business of taking to their marketplace, the battlefields of our world, was sold to both sides by allowing the poppies in the Afghan fields to continue to grow and be harvested. by Raymond E.Hall
Author Raymond E. Hall
The Poppies Still Grow in Afghan fields (Memorial Day and Poppies) by Raymond E. Hall
Many of you have heard the poem, “In Flanders Fields The Poppies Grow.” They are described as a commemoration of the lives lost by so many in World War I. The poppies still grow in Afghanistan for a different reason.
Far from being a commemoration of all the blood and treasure lost in that country, they signify the power of the military industrial complex. These poppies were and are the most significant cash crop in this entire pitifully poor country. The cash generated by these poppies provided funds for the continual arming of the Al Quaeda, Taliban, and whoever else wished to fight against the infidel occupants of their country.
And who would be selling these arms to these radicals? The military industrial complex of course. Their objective is to sell arms. To who is not a big, ethical, or concientious consideration.
We could have easily agent oranged these poppies early on in the Afghan war, depriving our enemy of the major source of their cash for arms. Why was that not done? It would have greatly shortened the war. With the poppies gone and no money for arms, supplies, and food, the folks fighting us would have no real choice but to return to their goat farming. But our troops stood down and let the poppies grow.
Where did the order to let the poppies grow originate? The word came down from military industrial complex, through our government powers that be, to our military commanders. “You are to exempt the Afghan poppy crop from the legitimate list of the targets of war.”
And much more military equipment, which is the product that the military industrial complex is in the business of taking to their marketplace, the battlefields of our world, was sold to both sides by allowing the poppies in the Afghan fields to continue to grow and be harvested. (This article via:https://www.facebook.com/authorraymondehall?fref=ts
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