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As Veterans Develop Cancer, Senate Refuses To Extend Agent Orange Settlement To Navy Vets - YouTube
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Recently, the United States senate had the
opportunity in the form of legislation to
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extend benefits to us navy veterans who served
in Vietnam and developed cancers and other
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diseases as a result of exposure to Agent
Orange, the U.S. Senate was poised to pass
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this bill.
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They said, well, yeah, these people served
in Vietnam.
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They were exposed to this.
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They're now developing debilitating diseases.
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Tens of thousands have already died from it,
so why wouldn't we extend these benefits to
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members of the navy when we're giving it to
the army and the marines and everybody else?
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The navy deserves it just as much.
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They had just as much exposure and then Republicans
in the Senate said, I don't want to do it,
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and that's what happened.
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That's where the bill died.
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Republicans didn't want to give these us navy
veterans suffering from cancers because of
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their exposure to Agent Orange that the United
States military dropped.
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They didn't want to cover their healthcare
after they were the ones who gave them cancer.
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That's what happened.
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In case you're not familiar with Agent Orange,
let me go ahead and run through this massive
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list, and this is actually only a partial
list of some of the diseases and cancers that
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Agent Orange has been known to cause a soft
tissue sarcoma, non Hodgkin Lymphoma, Hodgkin's
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disease, chronic lympha lymphocytic leukemia,
respiratory cancers including lung, bronchus,
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trachea and larynx, prostate cancer, multiple
Myeloma, bladder cancer, um, and overall Vietnam
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veterans as a whole have increased rates of
cancer, nerve, digestive skin, respiratory
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disorders.
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The CDC says that in particular there's higher
rates of acute chronic leukemia, Hodgkin's
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lymphoma, non Hodgkin's lymphoma, throat cancer,
prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer,
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ischemic heart disease, soft tissue sarcoma
and liver cancer, all from this chemical that
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was primarily made by us chemical companies,
Dow Chemical and Monsanto.
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We were dumping that thing by the barrel full
by the plane full all over Vietnam, Vietnamese
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citizens, US military personnel and soldiers
getting doused in this developing cancers
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over time.
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Again, tens of thousands have died.
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Tens of thousands of US soldiers, veterans
here in the United States have died from this
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already.
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Even more are still developing these illnesses.
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And the Republican controlled US Senate said,
we're not going to take care of you.
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We are not going to extend this massive settlement
fund that exists to cover you as well.
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We've got enough to worry about.
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We're worried about the cost.
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They said, we're worried about the cost.
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Who cares about the cost?
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You need more money for this fund.
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You know where you get it.
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You get it from Dow and Monsanto.
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The people who knew how toxic this herbicide
was and still sold it to you anyway, and the
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dangers let people develop cancer and pocketed
all the prophets.
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They still made more money off of this than
they have had to pay out and settlements.
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So if you're worried about having to pay for
these people getting healthcare, then why
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don't you go back to Dow and Monsanto and
say, hey, you didn't give us enough.
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Fork it over.
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Unless you want to fight this out in court
again because you've already lost in the past
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and there is no reason to think you're not
going to lose again.
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Now, this is atrocious, especially for the
Republican Party who claims to care so much
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about veterans.
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Oh, Democrats are horrible for veterans.
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They don't care about the Va.
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They don't want to fund you.
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Bullshit.
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The people who don't want to fund care for
veterans are the republicans in the United
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States senate and the vote they took last
week proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt,
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us veterans are going to die because they're
not going to be able to get the care that
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they need because of their exposure to Agent
Orange and those deaths come at the hands
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of senate republicans.
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