Iraqis get “condolence payments,” while Vietnamese get the brush off
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The Washington Times reports that Iraqis whose relatives were accidentally killed or whose property was destroyed by coalition forces have received more than $40 million in “condolence payments’’ since 2005. The report, which can be viewed here, says the payments are meant to mitigate anger toward the U.S. military.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York last week dismissed a lawsuit filed by Vietnamese agent orange victims against some 30 companies that produced the defoliant. As reported by Reuters in a story that can be found here, the suit claimed that agent orange causes cancer and birth defects and that “hotspots’’ where it was used during the war still contain high dioxin levels some 40 years later.
Apparently, what’s good for the current goose isn’t good for the old gander.
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