Pittsburgh Tribune Review,
Dec 09, 2004

The Thursday Wrap

A horse with bin Laden's name: For all those bleeding heart liberals out there lamenting that defoliants are being used to destroy Afghanistan's still-prosperous poppy crop, this from Rowan Scarborough of The Washington Times, citing information from U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill.: "Osama bin Laden is using cash from the Afghanistan heroin market to finance his life on the run, paying bodyguards and buying off warlords in Pakistan." That would be $28 million annually. Let's keep spraying.