Because we are already spraying, and have been for a long time.
But the shit AmeriKan MSM acts like they know nothing.
It's called SHOVELING SHIT into the American public's mouth for CONSUMPTION!
"Afghanistan Seeks Review of Herbicides in Poppy War" by KIRK SEMPLE
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 — In the face of pressure from the American government, the administration of President Hamid Karzai is seeking the formation of an international scientific committee to review the safety of chemical herbicides to combat Afghanistan’s opium poppy crop, Afghan and Western officials say.
[Of course, you wouldn't mind having that shit dropped on you, right, Amurkn?
So why should the Afghanis, right?]
Obaidullah Ramin, Afghanistan’s minister of agriculture, irrigation and livestock, in an interview last week: “We are working around the clock.”
The moves, which follow a visit to Kabul earlier this month by a State Department delegation that briefed Afghan cabinet officials on the efficacy and safety of the chemicals, suggest a new willingness on the part of the Afghan government to reconsider its opposition to chemical eradication.
[If you go ahead with this poisonous plan, say good-bye to power, government!]
The American government has renewed its pressure on the Afghans to endorse a ground-based spray program using glyphosate, a widely sold weed killer that has also been used in American-financed counternarcotics programs in the Andes and elsewhere.
[Maybe we could spray Bush with some of this stuff, huh?]
The Karzai administration has been reluctant, in part, because of concerns about the possible environmental and public health consequences. Afghan officials have also argued that a program with American-financed chemical eradication squads wiping out farmers’ livelihoods would hand the Taliban rebels a major propaganda tool and risk driving farming communities into the insurgency’s camp.
[Oh, then SPRAY AWAY!]
Faizullah Kakar, the Public Health Ministry’s deputy minister for technical affairs, said of glyphosate:
“We have no questions about its efficacy as a herbicide. The issue is the health impacts and the social and political impacts.”
Mr. Kakar and Mr. Ramin, the agriculture minister, have been among the Karzai administration’s biggest critics of chemical eradication. Western officials say endorsements by the two men would be critical in persuading the entire Afghan government to approve spraying.
Mr. Kakar, who received advanced degrees in toxicology and epidemiology in the United States, said in an interview last week that while living in the United States, he had used glyphosate to kill weeds in his yard.
But Mr. Kakar pointed out that the water supply is better protected and regulated in America:
“In Afghanistan, that’s not the case. Glyphosate can run into ditches and run into rivers and that’s the water that the whole population is using.”
[So let's poison the people we claim to have liberated!
And who cares anyway?
The shit MSM deems it fine to ignore the increased airstrikes, the death tolls, and the fighting in the country, so why should we care about this?
AmeriKa's shit MSM will just go back to HIDING THESE CRIMES as well!]
Mr. Kakar also said he had encountered some findings that suggested there might be a link between glyphosate and health problems.
[But so what, who cares about those poor Muslims up there?
Not the Zionist-controlled MSM, that's for sure!]
American officials in Kabul and Washington said the State Department was assembling a list of candidates for an international committee.
A State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the topic for attribution in Washington said in a telephone interview on Saturday:
“Our goal is to very quickly pull this together. This is the most-studied herbicide in the world. We’ve told them, 'The one thing you shouldn’t worry about are the health impacts.’”
[Guess you wouldn't mind showering in the shit, then, 'ey, State Department asshole?!
The fucking murderous arrogance and gall is enough to make you want to puke!
I must have gotten sprayed, too, then!]
But American officials acknowledge that assuaging Afghans’ fears about the safety of glyphosate is only part of their challenge. An extensive public information campaign would also have to be carried out to dispel fears about the chemical’s political impacts."
[Yup, get a SHIT-SHOVELING OPERATION going so we can DUMP CHEMICALS on a bunch of innocent shepards and their families.
And imagine the shoe being on the other foot, reader?
Imagine if Afghanistan said they were going to spray North Carolina because of the tobacco poison WE are EXPORTING to the world?
Think it would be a FRONT-PAGE STORY with cries about BARBARISM and WAR?!
I KNOW you KNOW the answer to that one, readers!
So FUCK AMERIKA and its MASS-MURDERING WAR-CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT!!!!!]
