October 13, 200620 yr Reuters- OTTAWA - Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy ? almost impenetrable forests of 10-foot-tall marijuana plants. Gen. 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. "We tried burning them with white phosphorus ? 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.'" :lol :hat :lol
October 13, 200620 yr "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. :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol I was gonna go to battle, but then I got high.............
October 13, 200620 yr Awesome in so many ways. I could only imagine some of my high school friends that would swim to Afghanistan to encounter these 10 foot tall pot plants.
October 13, 200620 yr Awesome in so many ways. I could only imagine some of my high school friends that would swim to Afghanistan to encounter these 10 foot tall pot plants. sh*t, i got my bathing suit on right now :thumbup :whistle :shifty
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