hi to my wife jennifer in south carolina and all my family and friends. geraldo: captain? i would like to say hi to my wife, kids, matthew and christopher williams and mom, dad and mike. love you all and see you in a couple of months. hi to my mom and my beautiful girlfriend brit. geraldo: all right. corporal? hi to ashley my beautiful fiancee. love you and see you when i get home. geraldo: that is it from the first battalion sixth marines. marjah, forward operating base. we will see you as the week
all right, geraldo, i will be back later with breaking news on unemployment that may have 200,000 americans seeing red. it will be an easter battle royale debate like you have never seen. and between our resident political chicks ann and kirsten, not those chicks, guys, these chicks, the real ann coulter and kirsten powers will join me and we will see the ladies later in the program. now, let s go out to geraldo. hi, geraldo. geraldo hi, kimberly. welcome everybody to the marine forward operating base marja. an instant city, a for treasure created in the center of the poppy growing region of afghanistan. it was here, 49 days ago that the largest helicopter borne assault since the war in vietnam began and it is here that yesterday a different kind of operation began, one to convince the local people to
to follow me into the compound. feet away, open the old door that has been here for quite awhile and what you see is a wonderland of opium stars the eye can see. in the past they were given vouchers and when the time game the vouchers were never redeemed. they are very skeptical people. a lot of people sound like they are ready to do this. we are giving them the yellow piece of paper and after they prove to us that they committed to their end of the bar gain we will send a marine patrol to witness it and they will sign this and bring it back to us and verify and we give them the money for following up. comes out to $300 every two and a half acres. just about, yep. how much would that be worth on the streets of new york? the opium itself is probably worth a lot more than that? geraldo: the question is will the farmers buy into the programs to compensate them for
but those are statistics that general mcchrystal and general quaff hope to cut even further. geraldo? geraldo: thanks very much. it is already 7:00 a.m. monday morning here at forward operating base marjah but when we come back i will tell you how these marines spent their easter sunday. that is coming up. that and more.
right down the road. geraldo: how many of you were at one point in your life members of the taliban? gll these people never been with talib and never support talib. they hurt us and damage our houses and damage our economy but sometime we don t have a choice. they force us. they came to our house to feed them, of course, we don t have the choice. they have the guns and they have the power, yes, we did but in the present, no, we didn t help them and we are not with them and we never be taliban or a part of taliban. geraldo: in some ways the fight against the opium is going to be tougher than the fight against the taliban. you drove them out in four days. how long do you think it will be to rid these people of this habit? i can t give you an exact