Reply With Quoteprogress is a good thing...
US starts Agent Orange clean-up in Vietnam
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-19190509The US has begun a project to help clean up Agent Orange contamination at one area in Vietnam - the first such move since the war ended in 1975.
The work is taking place at the airport in the central city of Danang.
The US sprayed millions of gallons of the toxic defoliant over jungle areas to destroy enemy cover.
Vietnam says several million people have been affected by Agent Orange, including 150,000 children born with severe birth defects.
'Injustice' Agent Orange Victims Association Vice Chairman Tran Xuan Thu told the BBC that although the clean-up activities were "a little late", they were "greatly appreciated".
"They show that the US government now is taking the responsibility to assist us. I hope these efforts will be multiplied in future," he said.
progress is a good thing...
Dispite all the rhetoric I would be willing to bet the large majority of birth defects are due to industrial polution, and not agent orange. Any one want to challange that assumption?
Last edited by Gerry301; 08-10-2012 at 10:50 AM. Reason: spelling
Inductrial polution? Is that some form of torture from being inducted into a political process? Seriously, you're 64 years old. You know better, right? Was Rambo's rage misdirected?Originally Posted by Gerry301
Nevermind the rhetoric... When you spray millions of gallons of a agent that, afterwards, turns out to be highly toxic and carcinogenic to living organisms, then you do your utmost best afterwards to clean up... You are morally obliged to do so...
There are certain things that transcend politics and blame-gaming. And this is one of them
There you go again Barrack like Romney said, apologizing for America. Lol.
Kudos to the United States, I say.
40 years later? LOL! Better late than never.
Yep, the industries that is polluting the environment is readily apparent in this photo of Quang Tri Provence in 1969. This was a area that was hardest hit with AO.
Hollis, do you mean that your own bases were sprayed with Agent Orange?
^ah, a lead storage and distribution centre, express delivery by airmal?
plz keep this subject out of this thread as it get boring.
i always giggled at America doing lawsuits against BP due to the oil spill,when u look at the damage American oil companys are doing in africa.
on topic
Its a good sign they are doing somthing,abit a little too late,just 1 area,and it happens to be around a airport area? i think its a bit too late & theres no-way they be able to clean up every area affected.
I believe everything got a taste of it, I read somewhere (Chickenhawk?)the guys doing the spraying even drank it as an initiation test when joining the unit.
To be fair,i think AO was quick acting?? that hillside prob full of veg,after its sprayed u get a good pos for a base.
Danang was one of the main storage and distribution centers.
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