Richard Holbrooke - US Afghan poppy drive "spectacularly unsuccessful".

And in the State Of The Union, Bush wanted more money..

http://www.afghannews.net/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=2618

BBC News - A former US ambassador to the United Nations has criticised President George Bush's attempts to eradicate the opium poppy fields in Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke has described the US policy as "spectacularly unsuccessful".

The administration is "wasting" around $1bn annually on a programme which actually encourages farmers to support the Taleban, he says.

"But even without aerial eradication, the programme, which costs $1bn a year, may be the single most ineffective programme in the history of American foreign policy," Mr Holbrooke writes"

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, only 13 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces are "poppy free".