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RayBonga 10-14-2006 02:55 AM

Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants
 
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Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants
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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'."

Fighting the war on terror and drugs at the same time. win win !

MaleLockerRoom 10-14-2006 03:51 AM

any pics? lol

RayBonga 10-14-2006 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by MaleLockerRoom (Post 11073373)
any pics? lol

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Co....rp420x400.jpg

Not sure if the hotlinking works: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15240211...stry/15239501/

martinsc 10-14-2006 04:02 AM

sounds like fun :)

Elli 10-14-2006 12:39 PM

haha oh dear :) Are they trying to boost recruiting levels?

WarChild 10-14-2006 12:43 PM

Think of how much easier it would be to motivate stoned troops.

Prvt: Hey sir, how come we have to kill those people over there? I mean, it seems like it's dangerous and what have they ever done to us?

Cpt: Dude, those guys have all the Doritos!

Everyone: CHARGE!

ae-sc 10-14-2006 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by WarChild (Post 11075776)
Think of how much easier it would be to motivate stoned troops.

Prvt: Hey sir, how come we have to kill those people over there? I mean, it seems like it's dangerous and what have they ever done to us?

Cpt: Dude, those guys have all the Doritos!

Everyone: CHARGE!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You'd think that Canada was in trouble to call something like that out. I still think its a ploy to get some more asshat stoners off the couch in the US

BigBen 10-14-2006 12:48 PM

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But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects
Now they're going to fail their drugtests :1orglaugh

Z 10-14-2006 12:52 PM

I'm calling my recruiter now

jacked 10-14-2006 12:55 PM

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh who would have thought....

HorseShit 10-14-2006 01:16 PM

omg this is so weird, I didn't think there was any marijuana in Afghanistan


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