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Originally Posted by atari 2600
Afghanistan does have a record opium crop this year. That is a fact, tesla69, and you are correct. The current opium yield in Afghanistan is more than the whole cocoa crop in all of South America.
Just by making one factual point doesn't mean that all you other assertions are correct as well; all it means is that the particular source about the Afghanistan crop is correct.
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Atari you are so correct when you say that making one factual point doesn't mean that all my other assertions are correct as well it is simply stunning! By stating this you indeed proved me wrong and the Bush Administration is correct!
However, you are absolutely wrong when you assert "the current opium yield in Afghanistan is more than the whole cocoa crop in all of South America".
I found on the wikipedia that in South America they grew about 260,000 tons of cocoa, while according to the UN (
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/AFG07_ExSum_web.pdf) in 2007 there was only 8,200 TONS of opium produced. In my nutball world, 260,000 tons is alot more than 8,200 tons, but in your world atari, I guess not.