agent orange

Today I read an article in “frontline” about the victory of Vietnam over the US. The highlight is the column by S. Chatterjee about the use of the infamous dioxin called agent orange ..

“ A quote from Colin Powell may be worthwhile. In his February 5, 2003 speech, made as the US Secretary of state he told the United Nations Security Council: “ No country in the history of chemical warfare has had more battlefield experience with chemical weapons since the first World War than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq”. No, Powell was being modest. That distinction truly belongs to the US”