Replying to the list, Agent Orange, (was Re: The Bomb That Fell--was Gofman)

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

At 01:22 PM 6/8/2003 -0400, Syd Levine \(AnaLog\) wrote:

>Is there some easy way to reply to this list without pasting in the radsafe

>addy?



For me, it works with "Reply All."



I know this is RAD safe, but Heather Mallick's column in yesterday's "Globe 

and Mail" (Toronto) was upsetting



http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030607/FCMALL//?query=heather+mallick



an excerpt:





>Despite Colin Powell saying Saddam Hussein was the biggest user of 

>chemical weapons since the First World War, the greater culprit was in 

>fact the United States. From 1961 to 1974, the United States admits that 

>it dropped 72 million litres of chemicals on Vietnam, most of it Agent 

>Orange with a super-toxic strain of dioxin called TCCD. U.S. soldiers 

>dumped an additional 260,000 gallons of herbicide just to empty their 

>tanks. The Guardian reports that one soldier regularly dumped his poison 

>into a central drinking water reservoir. He doesn't want his name used, at 

>which one can only smile hollowly.



Read the entire article.



I'd appreciate some of your comments to this as it does involve public 

health statistics -- and, there might even be a link to what is being found 

in Vietnam to what is being found in the Niagara region.



I'm still skeptical about a link between radiation and heart disease, but 

I'm a lay person -- which was why I suggested snow shoveling--I had not 

researched where the county lines ended.



Richard 





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