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Thursday, June 14, 2007


Thirty years later and we're still dealing with this.
More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.

"They're the highest levels I've ever seen in my life," said Thomas Boivin, the scientist who conducted the tests this spring. "If this site were in the U.S. or Canada, it would require significant studies and immediate cleanup."
I suppose Washington's desire to help these poor unfortunate brown people only extends to billions of dollars for war and 50,000 American lives supporting a puppet government we installed and not for cleaning up the poisonous chemicals we left behind to destroy their ecosystem.

But even if it does get cleaned up, don't fret. There's still DU in Iraq.



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