Four Decades After War Ended In Vietnam - Agent Orange Is Still Ravaging The Population - Polidicks

[QUOTE][IMG]http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2013/07/22/17/02/16GAMG.WiPh2.91.jpg[/IMG] Le Thi Thu, 42, and her daughter, Nguyen Thi Ly, 11, live in a village south of Da Nang, Vietnam. They are second and third generation victims of dioxin exposure, the result of the U.S. military's use of Agent Orange and other herbicides during the Vietnam War more than 40 years ago. | Drew Brown/MCT DA NANG, Vietnam — In many ways, Nguyen Thi Ly is just like any other 12-year-old girl. She has a lovely smile and is quick to laugh. She wants to be a teacher when she grows up. She enjoys skipping rope when she plays. But Ly is also very different from other children. Her head is severely misshapen. Her eyes are unnaturally far apart and permanently askew. She’s been hospitalized with numerous ailments since her birth. Her mother, 43-year-old Le Thi Thu, has similar deformities and health disorders. Neither of them has ever set foot on a battlefield, but they’re both casualties of war. Le and her daughter are second- and third-generation victims of dioxin exposure, the result of the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, when the U.S. Air Force sprayed more than 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides over parts of southern Vietnam and along the borders of neighboring Laos and Cambodia. The herbicides were contaminated with dioxin, a deadly compound that remains toxic for decades and causes birth defects, cancer and other illnesses. To this day, dioxin continues to poison the land and the people. The United States has never accepted responsibility for these victims – it denies that Agent Orange is responsible for diseases among Vietnamese that are accepted as Agent Orange-caused among American veterans – and it’s unclear when this chain of misery will end. On Thursday, President Barack Obama will meet with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the White House, only the third meeting between chief executives of the two countries since Vietnam and the United States established diplomatic relations in 1995. [/QUOTE] [URL]http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/22/197318/4-decades-after-war-ended-agent.html[/URL]

[quote]To this day, dioxin continues to poison the land and the people. The United States has never accepted responsibility for these victims – [B]it denies that Agent Orange is responsible for diseases among Vietnamese that are accepted as Agent Orange-caused among American veterans[/B] – and it’s unclear when this chain of misery will end.[/quote]It's amazing when you read shit like this and your brain just goes "wait, what? How does the rest of the world let them get away with shit like this?"

That's disturbing...

This is such a horrible thing to say, but they kinda look like na'vi.

I read in a book about the Vietnam war that we would airdrop hundreds of fliers to various villages that assured them that the chemicals we were spraying around weren't harming them.

Can't blame them, they have made some kick-ass songs. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T79mHN3YCI4[/media] [sp]I'm so sorry.[/sp]

Great to know the US refuses to admit they poisoned the Vietnamese so they don't have to possibly pay compensation

My dad got diabetes from Agent Orange. Guess he got off lucky.

[QUOTE=Lonestriper;41560290]Great to know the US refuses to admit they poisoned the Vietnamese so they don't have to possibly pay compensation[/QUOTE] the US hasn't made a claim either way. Vietnam hasn't gone seeking reparations.

Sounds like the name of a soda...

[QUOTE=Supacasey;41560482]Sounds like the name of a soda...[/QUOTE] I'm not drinking that soda.

[QUOTE=Supacasey;41560482]Sounds like the name of a soda...[/QUOTE] [t]http://payload41.cargocollective.com/1/3/121071/3123177/orangecans_905.png[/t] [editline]22nd July 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Jad Hinto;41560300]My dad got diabetes from Agent Orange. Guess he got off lucky.[/QUOTE] could have been better, could have been worse. type 1 I assume? that shit is still pretty nasty.

[QUOTE=Supacasey;41560482]Sounds like the name of a soda...[/QUOTE] I wanted agent orange, but it gave me lemon-lime.

[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;41560300]My dad got diabetes from Agent Orange. Guess he got off lucky.[/QUOTE] My grandpa died because of complications due to exposure to Agent Orange. I never got to meet him. Also, I feel this song is relevant. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSmOcmk7uQ[/media]

[QUOTE=J!NX;41560640] [editline]22nd July 2013[/editline] could have been better, could have been worse. type 1 I assume? that shit is still pretty nasty.[/QUOTE]Aye, I believe so.

I had no idea it was still active, wow.. And to top it off we (our government) aren't even claiming responsibility when we're obviously behind it.

[QUOTE=butre;41560473]the US hasn't made a claim either way. Vietnam hasn't gone seeking reparations.[/QUOTE] I'm sure they would love to but as these things happen they'd more than likely get stonewalled immediately. Further the fact they haven't made a claim either way is an implicit refusal, they accept that agent-orange has caused diseases for their veterans yet are silent on the the Vietnamese. Its a small wonder why.

Veitnam is not the only people the US has poluted with agent orange.. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange#Use_outside_Vietnam[/url] North Korea sprayed it on the demilitarized zone :S

[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;41561282]Veitnam is not the only people the US has poluted with agent orange.. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange#Use_outside_Vietnam[/url] North Korea sprayed it on the demilitarized zone :S[/QUOTE] Agent Orange used in Canada?! What in the name of god?! Why am I only hearing about Agent Orange/Purple now?

[QUOTE=Lonestriper;41560290]Great to know the US refuses to admit they poisoned the Vietnamese so they don't have to possibly pay compensation[/QUOTE] I'm pretty certain most of the volunteers who helped clean out ground zero after 9/11 never got compensation for the lingering lung diseases they got afterwards.

Agent Orange was nothing but a codename for kool-aid. All these foreigners are lying. They also asked for it. Bloody communists.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;41560185]I read in a book about the Vietnam war that we would airdrop hundreds of fliers to various villages that assured them that the chemicals we were spraying around weren't harming them.[/QUOTE] Well look at all the good those fliers did them.

This stuff sucks, the US really did a shitty job with Vietnam... for both the natives and the troops sent over there. I mean a guy I worked with was slowly loosing the feeling in his legs because of agent orange. He told me that the doctor said there were only a few years left before he will be wheelchair stricken... I feel bad for him looking back on it.

[QUOTE=Killer900;41560157]It's amazing when you read shit like this and your brain just goes "wait, what? How does the rest of the world let them get away with shit like this?"[/QUOTE] Nuclear bombs and a big military are pretty effective if you want people to suck your dick.

I'm so glad my family was from the city instead of the jungles. I can't imagine how bad it could have been. The sad part is that I likely have family who were affected by Agent Orange that I don't know about.

America The international Jekyll and Hyde The land of a thousand disguises Sneaks up on you but rarely surprises Plundering the Asian countryside in the name of Fu Man Thieu. Afraid of shoeless, undernourished Cambodians While we strike big wheat bargains with Russia Our nuclear enemy Just how blind, America?

[QUOTE=Supacasey;41560482]Sounds like the name of a soda...[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qohaWhfGjJM[/media]

This was a chemical/biological weapon, I don't give a fuck what technicality they use to try to wank their way out of it

[QUOTE=JustExtreme;41564804]This was a chemical/biological weapon, I don't give a fuck what technicality they use to try to wank their way out of it[/QUOTE] No one's saying it's not. The use of chemical weapons wasn't banned by the U.S. until 1997.

Agent Orange was unintentionally contaminated with dioxins if I recall correctly, the US Army was informed but used it anyway.