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The Washington Post offers a story about how win over Afghan "notoriously fickle warlords and chieftains" by offering them "variety of personal services." This includes "pocketknives and tools, medicine or surgeries for ailing family members, toys and school equipment, tooth extractions, travel visas, and, occasionally, pharmaceutical enhancements for aging patriarchs with slumping libidos." A CIA operative tells the WaPo, "Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people -- whether it's building a school or handing out Viagra." In one example, an older tribal leader with four younger wives was so pleased with the Viagra he "offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes -- followed by a request for more pills." CNBC's Mike Huckman spoke to Pfizer, whose spokesperson said the pharmaceutical company was "certainly not" aware about the drug's use in the war against terror. But, seriously, what will the government think of next—tabs of LSD?!
CIA Uses Viagra to Fight the Taliban
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Wonder if Pfizer uses this in their Adv. literature?
An old Yiddish saying:
"A stiff prick has no conscience."
I can't tell if the LSD comment was sarcastic or not. The CIA has been using LSD in experiments and operations since it was discovered. They even tried to spray Castro with it before he had a speech to try and make him seem crazy.
I hope it's fake, Chinese made Viagra. Last thing we need is Taliban procreating.
I read somewhere than introduction of Viagra & Cialis was best thing that happened to some endangered animal species. Instead of ingesting "aphrodisiac" body parts of rare Siberian tigers, Sumatran rhinos etc. Chinese men went after little blue pills.
I'm having a hard time with this story. Hard. Ha! (Insert Alf-like laugh here.)
Hey what every works
Hey what ever works
And this doesn't have to do at all with the oppression of underage and unwilling women to have sex with this orthodox portion of mankind (oxymoron)
I wonder how much marital rape the CIA has been enabling.
I always knew those warlords were soft.
I guess this is better than the briefcases full of US currency we used to hand out.
This story is exemplary of what we're dealing with there...hundreds of tribes (compared to two in Iraq) who have been fighting for thousands of years and whose loyalty to anyone doesn't last longer than 5 minutes at a time. If we haven't found Osama in 7 years, is moving troops from Iraq to Afghanistan really going to help?
poor Afghan women, now their pedophiles husband can have sex with them
@thefacts, I guess you are right, you are a prick with no conscience.
The Afgan women are safe....didn't anyone see 'The Kite Runner'?
It's the little boys and sheep who should be afraid.
@14, omg, poor kids and poor sheep. No I didn't see the movie, i think I will now avoid it