tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7611979173383719333..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: When You Stand Shoulder to Shoulder with America's ArmyThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-33628771256653295042007-06-17T08:33:00.000-07:002007-06-17T08:33:00.000-07:00Hi Anon. Sorry for misreading your comment. I do...Hi Anon. Sorry for misreading your comment. I do have your point. This is an infuriating issue I've been aware of for some time. From what I've read, including technical reports, and seen in documentaries, it makes me so angry that one of our own, the US, can live with itself despite this and go on in near total indifference or worse, denial, of it. Since I posted this I expect that new infants have been born in Vietnam with Agent Orange birth defects. The stuff is now in the farm fields and ground water in the countryside. A lot of these victims are too poor to do anything about it. They wind up placing their deformed kids in orphanages because they have no means or knowledge of how to care for them. Theirs is a pretty hardscrabble world in which these sorts of disabilities are inevitably fatal. <BR/><BR/>When I posted these pictures I took care not to use the very worst examples. The malformed skulls and brains and the stunted limbs are bad enough.<BR/><BR/>The appeal that comes for hearing Monday will be worth following. From what I've read the argument is whether the defendants are now sheltered by a statute of limitations. If so it could mean that the new little plaintiffs that are being born this month and next and in the years to come are somehow barred by a statute of limitations that expired long before they were even conceived.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-30462446977193745502007-06-17T05:55:00.000-07:002007-06-17T05:55:00.000-07:00Yet another chapter of shame for America.Yet another chapter of shame for America.randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06935147718873393210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-48951846197570689072007-06-16T21:13:00.000-07:002007-06-16T21:13:00.000-07:00I wasn't taking any sort of side from my comment. ...I wasn't taking any sort of side from my comment. I know all about the suffering that still continues and "YES" it does turn my stomach. I wasn't attempting to reproach your blog in any way shape or form. I just asked if you knew. Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-84821982765977291022007-06-16T06:35:00.000-07:002007-06-16T06:35:00.000-07:00No, I wasn't in BC at that time. But that's irrel...No, I wasn't in BC at that time. But that's irrelevant. I can accept that the US didn't know how deadly or persistent this defoliant was. What I can't accept is that they turned their back on the innocent victims of their actions. These kids are being born every day and no one is doing anything about it. Read what's been written about it and watch a couple of the documentaries. If it turns your stomach, it should.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-60294826848596390342007-06-15T20:42:00.000-07:002007-06-15T20:42:00.000-07:00Don't you remember the protests against the manufa...Don't you remember the protests against the manufacturing of the chemical in British Columbia at the time?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com