Comments on: Reviews - The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War http://www.historynet.com/reviews-the-invention-of-ecocide-agent-orange-vietnam-and-the-scientists-who-changed-the-way-we-think-about-the-vietnam-war.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: clayton http://www.historynet.com/reviews-the-invention-of-ecocide-agent-orange-vietnam-and-the-scientists-who-changed-the-way-we-think-about-the-vietnam-war.htm#comment-792528 clayton Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:35:57 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685335#comment-792528 re: Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War ... "ecocide," defined by scientist Arthur Galston as "the willful and permanent destruction of environment in which a people can live in a manner of their own choosing." Galston coined the term in 1970 as an indictment of America's use of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, better known as Agent Orange. The USA has not cleaned up it's toxic mess in Vietnam, thinking and acting are different. This nation is still in denial while thousands suffer. But hey, Vietnam now sells Revlon products and Hershey bars so we really won that war. Seems like no one, not the omnipotent Pentagon, nor the toothless scientific community in the US learned anything from the use of Agent Orange and other toxic substances used in South East Asia. Weapons cost the American public money, funds that could be used to improve lives at home, etc. Many military officers enter the weapon sales in the private sector after retirement and earn huge salaries selling those weapons. It's a win win situation for the inner circle of the defense industry 'Pentagon players'. Sadly the USA is in collapse, the nation is crumbling from within. We have no moral compass to guide us, only profits made for the few by the exploitation and domination of third world nations and our own workforce are all that matters to the leaders in Congress. The nations leadership and those who install these leaders are content with their wealth and their lives and private 'armies'. It's really every man for himself in the final moments of this, our American tragedy. The USA now employs depleted uranium (DU) in weapons and has used those weapons in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. without a peep from anyone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium Some states and the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, a coalition of more than 155 non-governmental organizations, have asked for a ban on the production and military use of depleted uranium weapons. The European Parliament has repeatedly passed resolutions requesting an immediate moratorium on the further use of depleted uranium ammunition, but France and Britain – the only EU states that are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – have consistently rejected calls for a ban, maintaining that its use continues to be legal, and that the health risks are entirely unsubstantiated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Gulf_War_syndrome_and_soldier_complaints Studies by the U.S. Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute conclude that moderate exposures to either depleted uranium or uranium present a significant toxicological threat..."male Gulf War veterans reported having infants with likely birth defects at twice the rate of non-veterans. Furthermore, female Gulf War veterans were almost three times more likely to report children with birth defects than their non-Gulf counterparts. The numbers changed somewhat with medical records verification. However, Dr. Kang and his colleagues concluded that the risk of birth defects in children of deployed male veterans still was about 2.2 times that of non-deployed veterans." What the USA and it's partners are doing is polluting the earth, in the name of Capitalism. Civilians in Vietnam and other 'invaded' nations continue to pay the price for these crimes against nature and humanity. US soldiers will continue to be consumed like firewood and they will suffer the indignities claims denials until it's too late. It is also fair to assume that these toxins will continue to cycle through the food chain via edible commodities produced on compromised agricultural land. Thanks America! Sadly, given the way things work nothing will change since the American public is powerless to make things different. Stay tuned for the next episode of Dancing With the Stars etc., more mind numbing entertainment while the rest of the world leaves the USA rot from within. re: Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Vietnam War
… "ecocide," defined by scientist Arthur Galston as "the willful and permanent destruction of environment in which a people can live in a manner of their own choosing." Galston coined the term in 1970 as an indictment of America's use of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, better known as Agent Orange.

The USA has not cleaned up it's toxic mess in Vietnam, thinking and acting are different. This nation is still in denial while thousands suffer. But hey, Vietnam now sells Revlon products and Hershey bars so we really won that war. Seems like no one, not the omnipotent Pentagon, nor the toothless scientific community in the US learned anything from the use of Agent Orange and other toxic substances used in South East Asia. Weapons cost the American public money, funds that could be used to improve lives at home, etc. Many military officers enter the weapon sales in the private sector after retirement and earn huge salaries selling those weapons. It's a win win situation for the inner circle of the defense industry 'Pentagon players'. Sadly the USA is in collapse, the nation is crumbling from within. We have no moral compass to guide us, only profits made for the few by the exploitation and domination of third world nations and our own workforce are all that matters to the leaders in Congress. The nations leadership and those who install these leaders are content with their wealth and their lives and private 'armies'. It's really every man for himself in the final moments of this, our American tragedy.

The USA now employs depleted uranium (DU) in weapons and has used those weapons in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. without a peep from anyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
Some states and the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, a coalition of more than 155 non-governmental organizations, have asked for a ban on the production and military use of depleted uranium weapons.

The European Parliament has repeatedly passed resolutions requesting an immediate moratorium on the further use of depleted uranium ammunition, but France and Britain – the only EU states that are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – have consistently rejected calls for a ban, maintaining that its use continues to be legal, and that the health risks are entirely unsubstantiated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Gulf_War_syndrome_and_soldier_complaints

Studies by the U.S. Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute conclude that moderate exposures to either depleted uranium or uranium present a significant toxicological threat…"male Gulf War veterans reported having infants with likely birth defects at twice the rate of non-veterans. Furthermore, female Gulf War veterans were almost three times more likely to report children with birth defects than their non-Gulf counterparts. The numbers changed somewhat with medical records verification. However, Dr. Kang and his colleagues concluded that the risk of birth defects in children of deployed male veterans still was about 2.2 times that of non-deployed veterans."

What the USA and it's partners are doing is polluting the earth, in the name of Capitalism. Civilians in Vietnam and other 'invaded' nations continue to pay the price for these crimes against nature and humanity. US soldiers will continue to be consumed like firewood and they will suffer the indignities claims denials until it's too late. It is also fair to assume that these toxins will continue to cycle through the food chain via edible commodities produced on compromised agricultural land. Thanks America! Sadly, given the way things work nothing will change since the American public is powerless to make things different.

Stay tuned for the next episode of Dancing With the Stars etc., more mind numbing entertainment while the rest of the world leaves the USA rot from within.

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