- Opium farmer Haji Abdul Khan shows off damaged poppies
to U.S. Marines and their military interpreter on March 22, 2009 near remote
Qalanderabad in southwest Afghanistan. The opium poppy field was damaged
when a U.S. Air Force airdrop of supplies blew off target, landing on some
of Khan's crops and crushing them. The Marines assured Khan they would
pay him for his damaged poppy crop in compensation for the accident. The
Taliban often extorts a percentage of the profits from the farmers' harvest
to fund attacks on American forces, according to the military. U.S. Marines,
however, have no mandate to destroy poppy crops and, in fact, count on
farmers to supply intelligence on Taliban activities.
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- A British soldier keeps watch while on foot patrol
in a poppy field in Musa Qala, Helmand province, Afghanistan on March 28,
2009. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani)
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- A U.S. Marine patrols through a poppy field in
a village in the Golestan district of Farah province, Afghanistan (Reuters)
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- Afghan farmers work on a poppy field in the Grishk
district of Helmand province in this April 18, 2009 file photo. - Reuters
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- In this May 17, 2006, file photo Herbert Reed,
52, a veteran of Iraq, shows the medicines he takes everyday for pain at
his home in Columbia, S.C. Reed was exposed to radioactive depleted uranium
while serving a few months with the 442nd Military Police out of New York.
A new U.S. congressional report, prepared for a hearing on Thursday, March
12, 2009, says officials from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (ATSDR), a branch of the Health and Human Services department
charged with protecting the public near toxic pollution sites, 'deny, delay,
minimize, trivialize or ignore legitimate health concerns.' (AP Photo/Mary
Ann Chastain) March 12, 2009
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- Staff Sgt. Michael Lage is assisted by his mother
Rose Lage, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, on Friday, Dec.
7, 2007. Lage, who was injured in Iraq, was the only survivor of a blast
that killed four others. Lage suffered third-degree burns to nearly half
his body; part of his nose and ears were missing, and his face, scalp,
arms and torso were seared. His left hand had to be amputated.
- (AP Photo/Eric Gay). December 29, 2007
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- Iraq War wounded U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Kinard
(R) watches U.S. President George W. Bush from his wheelchair after meeting
him at the airport in Columbia, South Carolina, November 2, 2007. (REUTERS/Larry
Downing) November 5, 2007
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- Army Spc. Rick Yarosh, Bingham NY, who was wounded
in Iraq in Sept. 2006, waits to be greeted by President Bush as he visits
a physical therapy lab for wounded soldiers at the Center For The Intrepid
at the Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, Thursday, Nov.
8, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) November 10, 2007
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- President Bush, who ordered the Iraq war, shakes
hands after jogging, Wednesday, July 25, 2007, with wounded veterans Army
Sgt. Neil Duncan, left, and Army Specialist Max Ramsey, right, on the South
Lawn at the White House in Washington. Duncan lost both legs in Afghanistan
and Ramsey lost his leg in Iraq. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds). July 26, 2007
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- Iraq war veteran and double amputee Lewis Puertes
of the U.S. stretches with his running prosthetics before the start of
the Army Ten-Miler race in Arlington, Virginia, October 7, 2007. Lewis
ran as part of the Missing Parts In Action (MPIA) group which is made up
of military amputees. With a total of 26,000 participants in 2007, the
race is the largest ten-mile race in the U.S. and the second largest in
the world. Picture taken October
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- Iraqi girls eye a US soldier as his team searches
their Baghdad home. Iraq's conflict is exacting an immense and largely
unnoticed psychological toll on children and youth that will have long-term
consequences. (Photo: Chris Hondros / Getty Images) June 28, 2007
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- Jim and Cindy Butler visit the grave of their
son, Sgt. Jake Butler, Sept. 21, 2007 in Wellsville, Kan. Butler was the
first Kansas soldier to die in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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