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Thread #51917   Message #795075
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
01-Oct-02 - 06:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: What the heck are WMD's... Seriously
Subject: RE: BS: What the heck are WMD's... Seriously
Agent Orange. Arguably the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam might not have involved the criminal intention to cause mass homicide, cause birth malformations, cancer etc. The fact that a proportion of the people who were killed or whose lives were wrecked in this way were and are Americans involved in using it, or their children, strengthens the case that this was not intentional.

But it was absolutely criminally irresponsible to use this substance in this way, and carry out a massive experiment on human guinea pigs. And this has been compounded by a failure to provide help and reparations to the victims, especially those in Vietnam, on a scale consistent with what was done. And it is not in the past - what was done at that time continues to cause enormous suffering to this day.