(September 29, 2016 at 2:44 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well, they used it for it's intended purpose. It's a pesticide and defoliant. The idea was to remove the canopy that was providing cover, and any food crops the enemy relied on. We'd been using those chemicals (and still do) agriculturally since the 50's, we hadn't made the link in our own country either in all that time.
Yes, that was worded poorly. Of course it was used in it's intended way. But at that time nobody knew about it's side effects. Not that decades after people would still have health problems. The right thing would be to own up to that. But I don't hold my breath for any state to do that.