The invisible killer haunting Laos 50 years after the Vietnam WarLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.world – 74 points – 10 months agotelegraph.co.uk10Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent comment“Bombies”: the smaller explosive ordinance involved in cluster bombing with up to a 30% dud rate. We (the US) dropped a plane-load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes for a decade straight. We (the US) dropped a plane-load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes for a decade straight ಠ_ಠAnd Cambodia.Kissinger im guessing?Correct. You may move up 2 spots in the piss on his grave queue.The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets. Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.No wonder he is considered a hero to conservatives.
“Bombies”: the smaller explosive ordinance involved in cluster bombing with up to a 30% dud rate. We (the US) dropped a plane-load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes for a decade straight. We (the US) dropped a plane-load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes for a decade straight ಠ_ಠAnd Cambodia.Kissinger im guessing?Correct. You may move up 2 spots in the piss on his grave queue.The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets. Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.No wonder he is considered a hero to conservatives.
And Cambodia.Kissinger im guessing?Correct. You may move up 2 spots in the piss on his grave queue.The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets. Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.No wonder he is considered a hero to conservatives.
Kissinger im guessing?Correct. You may move up 2 spots in the piss on his grave queue.The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets. Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.No wonder he is considered a hero to conservatives.
The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets. Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.No wonder he is considered a hero to conservatives.
“Bombies”: the smaller explosive ordinance involved in cluster bombing with up to a 30% dud rate.
We (the US) dropped a plane-load of bombs on Laos every 8 minutes for a decade straight.
ಠ_ಠ
And Cambodia.
Kissinger im guessing?
Correct.
You may move up 2 spots in the piss on his grave queue.
The man personally ordered countless bombings, and even overruled generals who wanted to scale back or target actual military targets.
Nixon never actually cared much about the day-to-day minutia of the war, but Kissinger sure did.
No wonder he is considered a hero to conservatives.