Agent Orange: The Unseen American Tragedy

It was later known that the EPA or better known as the Environmental Protection Agency banned Agent Orange in the United States when a large number of birth of a baby who is born without any signs of life at or after 24 weeks of pregnancy were reported among mothers in Oregon, where Agent Orange had been heavily used (The Story of Agent Orange). Many Americans were outraged after finding out what Agent Orange has caused to their people. The Vietnam veterans cried for help from the Veterans Administration and usually the response was put on, but the veterans will not back down. These veterans would band together to have studies on the toxic herbicide and bring those studies to the government attention. Despite the veterans’ hard efforts, the

The veterans were not giving up, they were fed up with what they thought was government inaction on the Agent Orange issue, so veterans filed a class action lawsuit in 1982 against all the chemical companies that had made Agent Orange (The Story of Agent Orange). The veterans later won and claimed victory against the Agent Orange producing companies, but later on people realized that many other companies of Agent Orange sprung up to produce more of it. After the lawsuits, companies like those of the ones that were involved with the suit were still mixing different chemicals with Agent Orange to make new types of

"The US confirmed to my officials that they had not used MK77s in Iraq at any time and this was the basis of my response to you," he told Mr Cohen. "I regret to say that I have since discovered that this is not the case and must now correct the position" (Brown).

Ingram said 30 MK77 firebombs were used by the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in the invasion of Iraq between 31 March and 2 April 2003 (Brown). They were used against military targets "away from civilian targets", he said. This avoids breaching the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), which permits their use only against military targets