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Bitter Fruits of Afghan War

by Barry Weisleder

 

Heroin from Afghanistan, a country where over 2500 Canadian soldiers serve in an imperialist occupation, is increasingly making its way to Canada and poses a direct threat to the public, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

 

Paul Nadeau, the director of the RCMP’s drug branch in Ottawa, said in August that about 60 per cent of the heroin on Canadian streets comes from Afghanistan.

 

Do you remember the argument made by the ‘preventative war’ strategists that ‘we must fight them (i.e. the terrorists) there so we won’t have to fight them here’? 

 

Concealed were the costs of collaborating with recycled terrorists and professional drug lords who run the puppet government in Kabul.

 

Obscured was the vast network of opium farmers and transporters, on both sides of the conflict in the war ravaged economy. Not mentioned is the human cost of countless dead Afghan civilians and 69 slain Canadian Forces personnel, the latest three falling in one mid-August week, all from Quebec—where public opposition to the war is reaching new heights.

 

More reasons to demonstrate on Oct. 27 to demand ‘Canada out of Afghanistan’. 

 

Human Needs, Not Profits!