US begins cleanup of Agent Orange in Vietnam - about time or not their problem?

by Ben Posted 2012/08/10 11:34:07

Related Topics: War, Cancer, Military, Time, Plane, Planes, America, Strip, Birth, Jungle, Clean, Vietnam, US

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Agent Orange, a defoliant designed to strip away the jungle cover and expose vietnamese soldiers and their supply lines was used extensively by the US military during the Vietnam war. It has also been linked with respiratory cancer and birth defects and several parts of Vietnam including Danang airbase where it was stored and loaded onto planes are still hotspots of the dangerous dioxin found in the chemical.

The US has now begun a $41 million project with the Vietnamese government to clean up the site around Danang airbase.

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Philo-Publius 2012/08/10 12:38:03

It's about time, but America should be doing even more.

Can you imagine that the US has the chutzpah to lecture other countries about using chemical or biological weapons, or for making weapons of mass destruction?

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Metaldane 2012/08/10 11:56:45

It's about time!

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We screwed up we've helped Japan out because of the side effects of the atom bombs we dropped we should do the same for Vietnam and considering a hunch of our own have gotten sick due to it and have died because of it we should do the do the right thing.

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