Nope, it shows that you have to try to slander people because you can't form a cogent counter argument.
Except the people who've seen pictures of me in uniform from that time period, I guess. But you keep like to pretend you didn't see those.
Studies provide evidence that many more birth defects may be associated with dioxin-contaminated herbicide exposure in Vietnam.
birthdefects.org
The soldiers are dying. But, even more tragic…the children they have left behind are suffering. Sometimes we hear from the veterans, but it is usually the wives and children that send us these poignant messages.
“I lost my husband from a cancerous brain tumor 13 months ago. My son has many disabilities including Tourette’s syndrome, mental retardation, mild Cerebral Palsy, hydrocephalus and he is profoundly deaf. He will never be able to live on his own.”
“My father passed away in 1998. He had many health problems including type II diabetes. He was only 50 years old. Agent Orange has been a part of my life from the moment I was born. I was born without my right leg, several of my fingers and my big toe on my left foot. My mother had three miscarriages. My younger brother (age 29) has to wear bifocals and suffers from chronic joint pain.”
“I was in the infantry in the area where the highest concentrations of Agent Orange were used. My oldest daughter had Chronic Mylogenous Leukemia.”
“I served four tours in Vietnam. We have three children…one daughter with a heart defect, another daughter with scoliosis and digestive problems and a son born with a defective optic nerve in his right eye that has left him blind in that eye. There is no history of birth defects on either side of our family.”
Nearly half a century since the end of the Vietnam War, there remains an urgent need for the United States and Vietnam to address the harmful legacy of Agent Orange, a defoliant sprayed by the U.S. military over parts of southern Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia — an area about the size of Massachusetts — that continues to this day to impact the health of local populations.
The United States sprayed 19.5 million gallons of Agent Orange over the course of the Vietnam War. The goal was to deny Vietcong fighters and North Vietnamese troops forest cover and food supplies. “The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that three million Vietnamese have been affected by dioxin, including at least 150,000 children born after the war with serious birth defects,” said Wells-Dang, referring to the toxic chemical in Agent Orange. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers were also exposed.
