In this 1966 photo, a US Air Force C-123 sprayed the Agent Orange defoliant along a South Vietnam jungle. (Department of Defense File 1966/ Via Associated Press)
I think WAR CRIME, readers!
And what Army POISONS its OWN TROOPS, huh?
"Diabetes now tops claims list for 270,000 Vietnam veterans" by Mike Baker, Associated Press | August 31, 2010
RALEIGH, N.C. — Agent Orange was a dioxin-laden defoliant that was sprayed over jungles to strip the Viet Cong of cover. American forces often got a soaking, too, and Agent Orange was later conclusively linked to several horrific health ailments, including cancers.
Because of worries about Agent Orange, about 270,000 Vietnam veterans — more than one-quarter of the 1 million receiving disability checks — are getting compensation for diabetes, according to Department of Veterans Affairs records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
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More Vietnam veterans are being compensated for diabetes than for any other malady, including post-traumatic stress disorder, hearing loss, or general wounds.
Tens of thousands of other claims for common ailments of age — erectile dysfunction among them — are getting paid as well because of a possible link to Agent Orange.
And taxpayers may soon be responsible for even more: The VA said yesterday that it will add heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, and certain types of leukemia to the list of conditions that might be connected to Agent Orange. The agency estimates that the new rules, which will go into effect in two months unless Congress intervenes, will cost $42 billion over the next 10 years.
Are the WARS BASED on LIES worth it, America?
Remember, Vietnam began for real after the GULF of TONKIN LIE!!
Lawmakers and federal officials who have reservations about the spending are loath to criticize a program that helps service members. The officials have largely ignored a 2008 report in which a group of scientists said the decision to grant benefits to so many on such little evidence was “quite extreme.’’
Yeah, FOR ONCE it went to the SOLDIERS and NOT the WAR-LOOTERS -- and now they want it back?
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The jaunt did not make for much of a war story, and there is no record it ever happened. But the man successfully argued that he may have been exposed to Agent Orange during his stopover and that it might have caused his diabetes — even though decades of research into the defoliant have failed to find more than a possibility that it causes the disease.
That is LYING GOVERNMENT RESEARCH, right?
Nothing about the millions of Vietnam we dumped CHEMICAL WEAPONS on, huh?
And just wait until the depleted uranium poisonings from the current crop of wars starts taking hold, Americans.
Then you will truly see these wars were not worth it and your government is a war criminal.
Also see: Clinton Continues Victimization of Vietnam
