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Tim Pallies's avatar

Part of the reason for their current success may simply be that normal people cannot conceive evil on this scale. Now might be an excellent time to pray for those who are so inclined.

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Ordinarily, I would dismiss this article as the nightmare speculations of fertile imaginings - but those of us who served in Vietnam should know very well how stupid our governments are when it comes to spraying chemicals with wild abandon. For all eight years of our war, part of our Air Force considered it a great idea to spray thousands, maybe millions of tons of dioxin-rich herbicides over every square inch of South Vietnam, in the theory that if the trees were killed, the enemy couldn't hide from their bombing.

Somebody, way up high, didn't realize that killing the trees also made their antiaircraft fire more effective and the hillsides are littered with American aircraft aluminum and yet undiscovered bodies. Those of us on the ground, US combatants and the South Vietnamese we were supposed to be fighting for - insignificant in Air Force eyes - lived and operated in those sprayed areas and all the water we drank contained more than enough dioxin to ensure early deaths. Every single man who survived combat with me discovered aggressive prostate cancer in us. All of us.

It was criminal, at Nazi-level callousness

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