Come now....
Joanna
B. wrote:
>Horrible photograph of a child victim of Agent Orange.
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>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050425/481/rjv10104250324&e=1
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>"IN an incredible perversion of justice, former
>soldiers who sprayed festeringly poisnous chemicals on
>Vietnam, and now find today that they themselves have
>been damaged by them, appeal to the people for
>sympathy and charity. The effects of the defoliant
>Agent Orange are discussed at length, but not one
>single newspaper article or hearing that we are aware
>of has even mentioned the effects on the people who
>still live in those regions of Vietnam. It's as
>outlandish as if Nazis who gassed Jews were now to
>come forward and whine that the poisons they utilized
>had finally made them sick. The staggering
>monstrousness goes unlaughed at and even unnoticed, as
>in a Kafka novel."
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>--Fred Wodworth, The Match!, 1980s, The Heretics
>Handbook of Quotations
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