{"id":1382,"date":"2012-07-12T19:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2012-07-13T02:39:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:39:39","slug":"1382","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"Laos, Iraq… aftermaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an AP<\/em> article today reporting that Hillary Clinton is in the country of Laos.\u00a0 In some foreign affairs research about Laos, I learned\u00a0 that we dropped two million tons of bombs on this country during the Vietnam War era.\u00a0 (Laos is a neighbor to Vietnam and was an ally to the North Vietnamese.)\u00a0 The amount of bombs we dropped on Laos was more than all<\/em> the bombing we did throughout World War II!\u00a0 What’s more, with the cluster bombing, about one-third of the “bomblets” didn’t explode upon initial contact.\u00a0 But they have been exploding ever since.\u00a0 That is, when someone steps on one, or a hoe comes in contact with one…\u00a0 Some 20,000 people have been killed this way since the war ended, and scores of others have been seriously injured.\u00a0 For instance, one of the stories I read was about a little nine-year-old girl whose chest was seriously ripped open when her hoe struck one of the bomblets.\u00a0 Her brother and two friends had been recently killed by one of these as well…\u00a0 The AP<\/em> article noted that Ms. Clinton was there to “…gauge whether a nation the U.S. pummeled, can evolve into a new foothold of American influence in Asia, to bolster the U.S. standing in a fast growing market.”\u00a0\u00a0Now the way I see it…\u00a0 \u00a0Perhaps instead of worrying about gaining a foothold in the Laos market, we should be: DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO FIND AND DISPOSE OF THE REST OF THE BOMBLETTS SO OTHER LITTLE NINE-YEAR-OLDS DON’T HAVE TO DIE!\u00a0 I mean, we have the technology to find these things — oh yeah, and we have the moral obligation.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0<\/strong> You know in a similar vein, I\u00a0once went to a seminar where I learned we used depleted uranium munitions in Iraq.\u00a0 Uranium-tipped, bunker busting bombs and armor piercing bullets have left a significant amount of radiation behind.\u00a0 Cancer rates in that country have spiked tremendously, as have birth defects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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