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Troops battle 10-foot marijuana plants
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants.
General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said on 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.
"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," Hillier 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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All they need to do is burn it down and "bingo", instant peace.
So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.
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10-15-2006, 06:49 PM #4Super Hero in Training
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10-15-2006, 07:52 PM #5Elite Kiki ELITE MEMBER
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Yeah, they're going to burn the forrests down alright...
Total ownage.
Originally Posted by kbm8795
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10-15-2006, 09:21 PM #6Defense
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hah
"marijuana camoflague"
nuts
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10-15-2006, 10:11 PM #7Esprit de Corps ELITE MEMBER
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Marijuana and opium grow wild there.
We contucted several dismounted patrols through hundreds of acres of Opium waist high or better.
It's a cash crop over there for the warlords.
NEVER write a check with your mouth that you can't cash with your ASS!! 
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Hey leave my stash alone, go find your own...
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eyes of tranquilty, crystalline-beads
no sign of despair in their hair, nor their hearts
but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
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