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Agent Orange
• noun a powerful herbicide and defoliant containing trace amounts of dioxin,
a toxic impurity suspected of causing serious health problems, including
cancer and genetic damage, in some persons exposed to it and birth
defects in their offspring: used by U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam
War to defoliate jungles. Dictionary.com
• Monsanto, which was 1 of several wartime US Government contractors,
developed Agent Orange. John F. Kennedy, President of the US
Plutocracy’s Government, approved the use of Agent Orange as a weapon
in the plutocrats’ war against the people of Vietnam.
• Insert Image: Dead Vietnamese babies, deformed and stillborn as a result
of prenatal dioxin exposure from Agent Orange. Image taken from a page
by Yoshino Hideo (Chiba prefectural assembly member in Japan),[1] but
original image is from Goro Nakamura's book: Vietnam War Agent Orange,
p. 119 . The Vietnamese government estimates that 400,000 people were
killed or maimed and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of
this spraying of what were called by the Americans 'rainbow herbicides'.[2]
Wikipedia
• Collage: By Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS

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Agent Orange

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  • 2. Agent Orange • noun a powerful herbicide and defoliant containing trace amounts of dioxin, a toxic impurity suspected of causing serious health problems, including cancer and genetic damage, in some persons exposed to it and birth defects in their offspring: used by U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam War to defoliate jungles. Dictionary.com • Monsanto, which was 1 of several wartime US Government contractors, developed Agent Orange. John F. Kennedy, President of the US Plutocracy’s Government, approved the use of Agent Orange as a weapon in the plutocrats’ war against the people of Vietnam. • Insert Image: Dead Vietnamese babies, deformed and stillborn as a result of prenatal dioxin exposure from Agent Orange. Image taken from a page by Yoshino Hideo (Chiba prefectural assembly member in Japan),[1] but original image is from Goro Nakamura's book: Vietnam War Agent Orange, p. 119 . The Vietnamese government estimates that 400,000 people were killed or maimed and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of this spraying of what were called by the Americans 'rainbow herbicides'.[2] Wikipedia • Collage: By Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS