APPEALS COURT ORDERS PAYMENTS TO CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA VETS IN AGENT ORANGE CASES

http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfJUL07/nf072007-11.htm ^ | 07-20-2007 | SCOTT LINDLAW Associated Press Writer

[Right Winged American]

APPEALS COURT ORDERS PAYMENTS TO CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA VETS IN AGENT ORANGE CASES -- Court says: "The performance of the United

States Department of Veterans Affairs has contributed substantially to our sense of national shame."

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"Three different Congresses in three different decades have enacted legislation signed by three different presidents, designed to ensure the payment of such benefits to veterans afflicted with Agent Orange-related ailments," Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote in the court's opinion.

"We would hope that this litigation will now end, that our government will now respect the legal obligations it undertook in the consent decree some 16 years ago, that obstructionist bureaucratic opposition will now cease, and that our veterans will finally receive the benefits to which they are morally and legally entitled," Reinhardt wrote.

[Right Winged American]

Another Appeals Court is heard from on the subject of Agent Orange and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

I know Lindlaw and AP are not our FRiends, but even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once and a while.

[Right Winged American]

Ping!

A Better Link:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3396599