The US and agent orange victims?

Question

What has the American government done anything to help them? Any sign that agent orange might affect might leave Vietnam and never return? I'm bitter at what the government DARE done long ago, and wonder whenever I tell my friends about agent orange they look at me, confused. Was the gov ever sued for this DISGUSTING war crime? Was there justice?! If you are a person that believes that agent orange was a brilliant plan, leave now. If you do not know how agent orange affect children today, please consider looking at these pictures:

http://flickr.com/photos/91912194@N00/569711839/

http://flickr.com/photos/7317465@N07/435369087/

http://flickr.com/photos/zyg01230/497567230/

Answer 1

I grew up with a parent in the military, my father was in both Vietnam and Desert Storm (in the early 90's) and Agent Orange is as real as Saudi Sickness, furthermore there was a time when the Government distributed a number of other things steroids, growth hormones, etc... they claimed they didnt know what side effects were to come. But its not common knowledge because we allow ourselves to be spoon fed our information about those things. Did you know that Americans only receive about 30% of the "news" which we are involved in?

Answer 2

in the eighties the government did allocate money for the victims of agent orange, U.S Soldiers, exposure but the amount was lowered substantially a few years later. for the Vietnam people exposed, nothing much.

Answer 3

Unfortunately justice has not been served.  Those who made the decision to use agent orange have not been prosecuted as they should have been.

The chemical companies that made it were found not liable.

The government has had to pay veterans groups, but they get all that money from taxpayers anyway.

Perhaps the biggest crime is that there is still no international agreement prohibiting the use of herbicidal warfare.

Answer 4

Sandra M you are a ***** agent orange in Vietnam caused 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects.

Answer 5

Okay first of all is there proof that agent orange causes babies to be born as siamese twins, I don't think so, and I have never heard that before.  The child with no eyes, also again is there proof that agent orange caused that, you know anyone can take pictures and label them as agent orange and post them online.  Do you believe everything you see, read and hear??????

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/releases/n...

According to this it says that there have been studies linking agent orange to premature births, but not births of siamese twins.

Also it says that DDT levels are now low and are not causing any harm.

Also in 2001 there was a joint study by the US Government and Vietnamese Scientists regarding agent orange, so how is it that they aren't doing anything about it???????????

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to amend

its adjudication regulations concerning presumptive service connection

for certain diseases for which there is no record of the disease during

service. This proposed amendment is necessary to implement a decision of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under the authority granted by the Agent Orange Act of 1991 that there is a positive association between exposure to herbicides used in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era and the subsequent development of prostate cancer and acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy. The intended effect of this proposed amendment is to establish presumptive service connection for those conditions based on herbicide exposure.

It says it causes Prostate Cancer and Acute and Subacute Peripheral Neuropathy not the birth defects you showed.  

Herbicides, and Agent Orange was a Herbicide

Herbicides are chemical agents intended to kill unwanted vegetation such as broadleaf weeds and woody plants. They are used in agriculture and on residential properties.  Route of exposure

People can be exposed to herbicides by breathing them or by skin contact from their residential use or living near application sites, and by eating contaminated food and drinking contaminated water.

Health effects

Most of the available herbicides are not very toxic in humans. Irritation to the skin, eyes, and respiratory tract are the most common health problems.

The effects of herbicide pesticide exposure on the general population at current levels of exposure are not known. Whether herbicides at the levels reported to participants in the Churchill County leukemia study can cause health problems is not known.

Measuring exposure

People in the Churchill County leukemia study were tested for four different herbicides: two chlorophenoxy herbicides (2,4-D and 2,4,5-T), one triazine herbicide (atrazine), and one chloroacetamide herbicide (alachlor).

Detection of one or more herbicides in a person’s urine shows a recent exposure but does not mean that the levels of the herbicides can cause a health problem.

You need to get your facts straight before you run off at the mouth and the US Government and the Government of Vietnam have been doing studies on the effects of Agent Orange for years.  

AND LET ME SAY THIS AGAIN THERE IS NO PROOF THAT AGENT ORANGE CAUSED THE DAMAGE THAT YOU SHOW IN YOUR PHOTOS ANYONE CAN POST PHOTOS LIKE THAT AND SAY WHATEVER THEY WANT, BUT WHERE IS THE PROOF.

http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/clusters/Fallon/...

Above information comes from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control