I need help with a letter to the editorfor my local
paper- here's what I have so far.....



General Barry McCaffrey, U.S. Drug Czar, used to urge
the media not to refer to the War on Drugs as... the
War on Drugs. It's not *really* a war, he says. A
better metaphor would be to compare the policy with
the medical struggle against cancer.

Right. Everyone knows that the way we as a society
battle cancer is by arresting and jailing millions of
people who have harmed no one; stripping away basic
Constitutional liberties; sending U.S. troops into
foreign lands to kill innocent civilians; using the
National Guard and virtually every military arm of the
federal government; instigating warrantless boat, bus,
and car searches; ordering mandatory urine tests;
utilizing asset forfeiture; virtually abolishing
financial privacy; sending black-garbed, masked, and
militarily-armed police to break into suspects' houses
in the middle of the night; bombarding the nation with
absurdly false propaganda....

Say, General, it sure sounds -- and feels like -- a
war to us.

But now he says that he has won the war on drugs.

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seattle420 Reviewed by seattle420 on . it's not really a war, BUT WE WON IT ANYWAY! sez drug czars I need help with a letter to the editorfor my local paper- here's what I have so far..... General Barry McCaffrey, U.S. Drug Czar, used to urge the media not to refer to the War on Drugs as... the War on Drugs. It's not *really* a war, he says. A better metaphor would be to compare the policy with the medical struggle against cancer. Rating: 5