As per the stated concerns on this forum and in private freep mail as to the title and intention of this post, I emailed the questions about the classification of these listed items as Chemical and Biological Weapons.
This is the response I received:
"Yes dear...pretty much the same thing....weapons that destroy not only trees, bushes, etc., to deny cover and concealment, but also to destroy food stocks is a weapon. Most of these things demonstrably also hurt people if you drop it on them or they ingest or breathe them. True, most of them don't act too fast as a weapon in the sense that nerve gas, mustard gas etc., do-but still do lots of damage-and long term damage-not just to the ones exposed-but also affects their families and causes birth defects/cancers, etc., for their offspring......."
Fair enough. But you damage your cause by calling these [harmful] chemicals 'bio-weapons or chemical weapons'. Sticking to the real issue keeps the discussion on the correct track -- helping the vets harmed by their exposure.
Back then we used leaded gasoline -- put that on the list too.