I do not have much time for posting and later on reading the comments. But this should not be ignored or lost.
I would like to display this picture, but don’t know how, so here the link to the picture.
Update [2005-5-2 14:55:48 by BooMan]: BooMan posts your picture:
And here the link to the BBC article: article.
Thirty years after hostilities ended between the US and Vietnam, relations remain strained by one of America’s most notorious weapons during the war, the chemical Agent Orange.
The Vietnamese believe that the powerful weed killer – the use of which was intended to destroy crops and jungle providing cover for the Vietcong – is responsible for massively high instances of genetic defects in areas that were sprayed.Nguyen Trong Nhan, from the Vietnam Association Of Victims Of Agent Orange and a former president of Vietnamese Red Cross, believes the use of Agent Orange was a “war crime”.
This is not only the legacy of Agent Orange, this is also the legacy of the US. And the way it looks the US is going to leave another disastrous legacy in Iraq. DU’s and other poisons. It seems cancer rates are already up. We might no be able to avoid seeing this kind of picture coming out of Iraq in 30 years, or maybe even earlier, but we can work to stop it from happening in another place.
