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In 2021, about 150,000 child victims of birth defects living in 2021. For photos, see also Agent Orange/dioxin page, this website.

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/exhibition-looks-back-on-60-years-of-ao-disaster-in-vietnam/204594.vnp Exhibition looks back on 60 years of AO disaster in VietnamNumber of victims.

In 2021, email to Brian Roesch from Phạm Trương, Trưởng Ban Đối ngoại, VAVA Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) Address: 35 Ho Me Tri Street | Thanh Xuan District | Hanoi | Vietnam

Oliver Stone. Viet Nam veteran, Academy Award winner for movie, Platoon. WGA West (2017, Feb. 20). James Woods presents the 2017 Writers Guild Laurel Award for Screenwriting to Oliver Stone. Youtube, 9:45–10:47 of 12:25.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INr-A919dfI

“Ditched.” Grose, P. (1996). Continuing the Inquiry : the Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996. NY: Council on Foreign Relations, p. 23. Wala, The Council on Foreign Relations and American foreign policy in the early Cold War, Others agree not share. Schulzinger, The wise men of foreign affairs, pp. 61–62. Not shared with public. Shoup, Imperial brain trust, p. 119.

“Other foreigners.” Hồ Chí Minh (NXB Quốc Gia)(1995). Hồ Chí Minh Toàn Tập, Hà Nội: NXB Quốc Gia, v.1, p, 12 (other foreigners)'; Roesch, Brian D.. Corporate Tsunami in Countryside Paradise: 1875–1900 Origin of US War in Viet Nam. Voter Knowledge Press, Kindle Location 1383.

Absurd. Buttinger, J. (1972). A dragon defiant : a short history of Vietnam. (Praeger University Series U-742). New York: Praeger, p. 116. Geneva, Viet Nam one state, says Prof Wright, zones. Raskin, M. G., & Fall, B. B. (1967). The Viet-Nam reader : articles and documents on American foreign policy and the Viet-Nam crisis (Rev. ed.; M. G. Raskin & B. B. Fall, Eds.). New York: Vintage Books, p. 11.

Nguyễn Thị Phương Tần, Physician, Assistant Chairperson, Ho Chi Minh City Association For Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin, December 19, 2019 interview by Brian Roesch, with interpreter.

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Phương, Physician. Hội Nạn Nhân Chất Độc Da Cam/Dioxin TP. Hồ Chí Minh (2017). Hậu Quả Chất Độc Da Cam/Dioxin Trong Chiến Tranh Việt Nam. TP. Hồ Chí Minh: NXB Tổng Hợp TP. Hồ Chí Minh, pp. 6, 27, 306.

President Joe Biden, Inauguration speech. CNN (20 January, 2021), Watch President Joe Biden's full inauguration speech. Youtube, 12:05–12:24 of 21:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGukNIEIhTU

Professor Cornel West (21 January, 2021). The Work Continues, 4:22–4:31, 7:07–7:17 of 22:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdFpDz6jNQ,

Prof.essor Noam Chomsky — U.S. Interest in Vietnam, New York, 1968. Tannhauser 108, Jul 14, 2013       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLsNOEfDrNw, 15:45–15:56, 17:24–17:44 of 17:50.

Huynh Thang Quoc quote. Roesch, Brian D.. Corporate Tsunami in Countryside Paradise: 1875–1900 Origin of US War in Viet Nam, Kindle location 3155.

Warnke quote. Carter, J. (2008). Inventing Viet Nam: United States and State Building, 1954–1968. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, p. 3.

Diem and brothers no mass following, Miller, E. (2013). Misalliance : Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the fate of South Vietnam. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Pressm p. 80, Kindle location 1591.

Climate change quote byJoseph Stiglitz, economist, Nobel Prize winner. Stiglitz,J. (2019). People, Power, and Profits : Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent. NY : W.W. Norton & Company, p. 266, Kindle location 4386.

List of Quotes

1 Child birth defects Agent Orange/dioxin/toxins 2021. Symposium and VAVA.

2 Oliver Stone, “we continue to create such war and chaos”

3 Grose, “ditched” not shared with public

4 “. . . Frenchmen and other foreigners go around in freedom . . .” Ho Chi Minh wrote on August 2, 1919

5. “Absurd” to say 1954 Geneva Accords created two countries, Joseph Buttinger wrote in 1967.

6 Physician in Viet Nam, disabled dioxin victims

7 Physician in Viet Nam, “this fight to claim justice for victims of Agent Orange”

8 Pres Biden, “Americans love?”

9 Prof Cornel West, “rot in the system”

10 Prof Noam Chomsky, “own country from becoming an object of hatred”

11 Viet Nam interpreter, But how is it for democracy when. you are invading

12 Def Dept Counsel Paul Warnke, “We fought the war for a separate South Vietnam, but there wasn’t any South and there never was one.”

13 Diem and his brothers “did not have any significant mass following in Vietnam,” said CIA operatives.

14 Economist Joseph Stiglitz, “. . . 99.9 percent of all scientists are convinced about climate change. . . .”

Quotes

1. About 150,000 children with birth defects from Agent Orange/dioxin/toxins 2021 International exhibition 2021, Ha Noi.

Dear Mr. Brian Roesch, Nov 4, 2021 Currently, we do not have accurate data, because the child mortality rate of Agent Orange victims is very high, so the current estimate is 150,000 children of Agent Orange victims. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to write to us. Sincerely, Pham Truong, Head of External Relations Department, VAVA

Ông Brian Roesch thân mến, 2021, Hiện nay, chúng tôi chưa có số liệu chính xác, vì tỉ lệ chết ở trẻ em nạn nhân chất độc da cam rất cao do đó con số ước tính hiện tại là 150,000 trẻ em nạn nhân chất độc da cam. Nếu có gì cần hỏi thêm, xin ông không ngần ngại viết cho chúng tôi. Trân trọng, Phạm Trương, Trưởng Ban Đối ngoại, VAVA

2. “.But remember this. In the 13 wars we’ve started over the past 30 years . . . Remember that it wasn’t one leader, but a system, both Republican and Democrat. And call it what you will—the military-industrial-security-money-media complex—it’s a system that has been perpetuated the better, that has been perpetuated under the guise that these are just wars . . . but in the name of that wealth, we cannot justify our system as a center for the world’s values, when we continue to create such war and chaos in the world.” Oliver Stone, 2017.

3. “ditched” not shared with public: “The matter is strictly confidential, because the whole plan would be ‘ditched’ if it became generally known that the State Department is working in collaboration with any outside group,” Isaiah Bowman said, He was a foreign policy architect from 1919 through 1945, He was speaking of the 682 reports and memos written during 1939–45 that, historians and documents show, set up the world order,

4. “Our people must sweat boiling tears in the hardest kinds of work . . . But Frenchmen and other foreigners go around in freedom, reserving all the resources, usurping all the exports and imports.” [Italics added.] Among the other foreigners were US businesses and consuls.

5. Claiming the 1954 Accords created “two separate nations was not only an absurd concept for anyone familiar with the history of Vietnam but also a legally untenable proposition. . . .” Joseph Buttinger wrote that in his seminal 1967, Vietnam: a Dragon Embattled; The 1954 Geneva Accords “recognized Viet-Nam as one state,” Prof. Quincy Wright, on the editorial board of the American Association of International Law, explained in 1965.

6. “Viet Nam in 2019 has about 1 million disabled dioxin victims.” Nguyễn Thị Phương Tần, Physician, 2019.

7. “This fight to claim justice for victims of Agent Orange; the support of close international friends in this fight to claim enduring justice. . . .Viet Nam has about 3 million dioxin victims, from mild to severe.” Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Phương, Physician, 2017,

8. “What are the common objects we as Americans love? That define us as Americans. I think we know. Opportunity. Security. Liberty. Dignity. Respect. Honor. And yes, the Truth.” Pres. Joe Biden, 2021.

9. “There’s a rot in the system. And the rot is corporate greed and Pentagon militarism. . . . with the corporate duopoly of the two parties. You got the Republican Party, you got the Democratic Party, both of them tied to corporate greed, both of them tied to Pentagon militarism,” Prof Cornel West said in 2021.

10. “American power is in fact so overwhelming that there is no one in the world who can call us to account. The responsibility to do so lies on us as American citizens, on us, and on us alone. . . . to save our own country from becoming an object of hatred and contempt for civilized mankind. This, I think, is the problem that we face today, that we should be thinking about at what is a critical and what may be a desperate moment in American history.”  Prof.essor Noam Chomsky, 2013

11 “But how is it for democracy when you are invading another country?” —Huynh Thang Quoc. Interpreter spontaneous question when interviewer Brian Roesch said to interviewee that many people in the US believe the US was in Viet Nam fighting for democracy.

12. General Counsel for the Department of Defense Paul Warnke later said, “We fought the war for a separate South Vietnam, but there wasn’t any South and there never was one.”

13. “Harwood and the other CIA operatives who worked with Nhu in 1954 recognized that the Ngo brothers did not have any significant mass following in Vietnam.” reports Edward Miller.

14. “. . . 99.9 percent of all scientists are convinced about climate change. . . .” Joseph Stiglitz.