Talibong

Here's a story that's been making the rounds, but this version has the best picture.

It seems that in Afghanistan, they grow some "killer weed":

Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants.

And that's a problem?

"We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he (General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff) said.

Now that's a problem!

"A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hillier said dryly.

Oh, you Canadians.

Lightweights.