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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:07 am Post subject: US won't compensate Vietnam's Agent Orange victims: official |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060605/hl_afp/usvietnamrumsfeld_060605192324
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HANOI (AFP) - The United States won't compensate Vietnam's Agent Orange victims but will offer advice on dealing with the wartime defoliant, a US official said, during a visit by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
When Rumsfeld met Defence Minister Pham Van Tra and military officials, the Vietnamese side had raised the issue of dioxin exposure and contamination from Agent Orange, the senior official said on the sidelines of the visit.
"What we can do is make scientific information available, historical archival information we might have, ... technical advice on how to deal with the situation," the official said.
"We're ready to do more. We agreed to sit down at the expert level and see what we can do," he said.
US forces widely sprayed Agent Orange, which contained the lethal chemical dioxin, in southern Vietnam during the conflict to deprive enemy guerrillas of forest cover and destroy food crops.
Vietnam says millions of its people have suffered a range of illnesses and birth defects as a result of the use of the chemical.
A New York court last year rejected a Vietnamese lawsuit against US chemical giants Monsanto and Dow Chemical, who manufactured the herbicide during the war. The Vietnamese side has appealed.
In April, visiting US Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson was pressed by Vietnamese journalists on why the United States compensates its own veterans for health defects linked to the chemical, but not Vietnam's |
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Yo!Chingo
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| I feel for these people but ever hear the old saying that all is fair in love and war? If the Vietnamese had a chemical they could have used on us back then you can bet they would have used it! |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| That's very true, chemical, nuclear, biological, planes, etc all is fair. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:39 am Post subject: |
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It was a despicable and horrible crime against Vietnam. If it was used against the USA they would scream bloody murder. Funny that chemical weapons were one of the reasons for the attack on Iraq. The USA needs to make the correct moral decision. I am not holding my breath...
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| I feel for these people but ever hear the old saying that all is fair in love and war? If the Vietnamese had a chemical they could have used on us back then you can bet they would have used it! |
Idiotic nonsense. Does that mean America can nuke Iran since they would nuke the "Great Satan" if they were given the means and the chance?. All is not fair in love and war? There are rules believe it or not. Ever heard of the Geneva convention? |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Yo!Chingo wrote: |
| I feel for these people but ever hear the old saying that all is fair in love and war? If the Vietnamese had a chemical they could have used on us back then you can bet they would have used it! |
Problem with this is that you weren't just using it against their soldiers, you were also dropping it (albeit unintentionally) on civilians and their villages too. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| Don't forget the use of naplam and the carpet bombing which took place in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Korea. |
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