[Mind-numbed Robot]

I agree with your criticism of bureaucracy and petty jealousies. In this case I suspect politics was also involved considering that Texas and DFW are strong conservative/Republican areas.

However, I think emphasis on pesticides more so than the battlefield related agents, more specifically nerve gas (after all, we found 500 artillery shells with serin gas in them), has some political envirowhacko smell to it. I remember the DDT fiasco and the outlawing of almost all pesticides at one time. In fact, that gave rise to the Organic craze.

What was the final decision on Agent Orange in the Vietnam War?

[texas booster]

The main reason that pesticides have been implicated is that their effects are very similar to nerve agents, and we can documents where they were applied.

We believe that at least one bunker of nerve agents was hit and explodes, but cannot documents where the cloud passed over or its’ toxicity.

And that they military or its’ PR arm declined to publicize the sins of Saddam. Not sure why, but there seemed to be a lot of folks that had secret and not so secret dealings with Iraq that we wanted to forget.

Agent Orange has been implicated in numerous illnesses among Vietnam vets, and I believe that the VA will provide a disability payment for exposure and effects. Perhaps a more knowledgeable FReeper can fill us in.