For many years tons of cocaine has been coming into the United States of America each and every year since someone invented a way to refine those coca leaves into a high powered, deadly, illegal and addictive drug known as cocaine. Thousands of people have died from the use of it and thousands more will die if that drug, in its refined state, continues to enter our Country and subsequently is sold or given away to any person who wants it.

The money earned by the people who sell that drug within our Country has and continues to finance other criminal activities. Those members of the hundreds of violent street gangs within our Country are the biggest vendors of the drug and they also sell deadly weapons, extort money from local business people, and rob innocent citizens within our society on a daily basis.

Besides our "War on Arab Terrorists," our "War against Drugs" must also be won for the future well being of our children who, in most cases, become addicted to cocaine and destroy any chance of being a responsible adult within our society.

As a matter of fact, those violent gang members also sell other deadly, illegal and addictive drugs to any person who has money. They are directly responsible for making all of those coca growers and processors in South America as powerful and as filthy rich as they are. That is, until law enforcement either kills them or puts them in jail for the rest of their lives.

The production and sale of coca leaves always was big business within the Countries of South America, since just chewing a coca leaf will give any person a high. As such, millions of people within South America chew coca leaves just like millions of "We People of the United States of America" chew gum. So too, coca leaves are legally sold in every market place in South America, just like other herbs and spices are sold. Thousands of people within South America earn a living by growing and/or selling coca leaves.

As such, it is almost impossible to stop the growing of coca plants. However, it is possible to destroy the factories that refine those coca leaves into cocaine. It is also possible to put each and every violent street gang within the United States of America out of business.

In regard to the growing of those poppy plants in the Arab World, particular Afghanistan, you should know that U.S. military forces have done nothing to destroy the record crop of poppy plants that were or are in the process of being harvested. The British Army

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