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Opium, thugs bloom under U.S. policies in Afghanistan war
• San Francisco Chronicle5 years since the start of the Bush administration's Afghan war, the "ousted" Taliban is back in full flower, and so is the notorious Afghan poppy. There's no doubt the two are intimately connected. The Taliban, which briefly banned