[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11] [House] [Page 15015] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]GOOD WAR--BAD WAR (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, successful counterterror programs teach that to win, you must attack both terrorists and their money. Through Congress' partisan lens, Iraq is the bad war, while Afghanistan is the good war. Our partisan lens will not recognize good news from Iraq or bad news from Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the Taliban is back, funded by billions from heroin. The U.N. reports that in 2008, Afghanistan is now also the top producer of hashish. Money from heroin and now hashish total hundreds of millions, if not billions. In sum, the Taliban's drug profits now may equal the operations budget of General McKiernan and his NATO Army. The hot issue today is a possible surge of troops to Afghanistan. I will sound a note of caution that without aerial spraying and other counterdrug programs that worked in Colombia, such an Afghan move will only accelerate violence between two very well-funded opponents. To turn the rising Taliban tide, we must attack both heroin and hashish in the narco-state that is Afghanistan. ____________________