This shows who is supporting terrorism;
In one of a pair of provocative anti-drug ads that debuted on the Super Bowl broadcast, a young drug user declares, ?I helped murder families in Colombia.?
Indeed he did. And still does. But not because ?Drug money supports terror,? so ?if you buy drugs you might too? -- the reason given in capital letters at the end of the Office of National Drug Control Policy message.
No, he is an accomplice in the murder of families by Colombian terrorists because he is a U.S. taxpayer. Our government lavishly funds a Colombian army that harbors, protects and conspires with an array of right-wing paramilitary death squads, known collectively as the AUC, that are responsible in recent years for approximately 75 percent of Colombia?s politically motivated killings. What the Taliban was to al-Qaida, the Colombian army is to the AUC.
Our State Department is well aware of the AUC?s depridations. The day before terrorists struck the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, Secretary of State Colin Powell designated the AUC a ?foreign terrorist organization,? or FTO. But that doesn?t mean Powell is out of step with the vast majority of Bush administration officials who couldn?t care less that the U.S.-sponsored Colombian army facilitates AUC massacres. Powell?s carefully crafted statement branding the AUC an FTO
The heroin trade has financed Afghanistan?s murderous Northern Alliance as well as the murderous Taliban. The Taliban, as awful as it was, apparently honored a U.N. request last year to suppress opium cultivation. Today, in areas where the Northern Alliance has regained control, planting is widespread and a bumper crop is anticipated. That wasn?t an intended outcome of the ?War on Terror,? but it certainly was predictable.
The illegal drugs most favored by American teens are alcohol (illegal until 21), tobacco (illegal until 18) and -- to a much lesser extent -- marijuana (illegal at any age). All three are produced domestically, yet even imported varieties bear scant relation to terrorism. Colombia?s big exports are cocaine and heroin. Fortunately, teen use of those dangerous drugs is miniscule.
Alcohol doesn?t finance terrorism, but it is the drug most likely to kill the teenagers
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