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<title>Comment by For Airhead, er Airdale (December 2, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153900</link>
<description>Something about your story stinks. IF, and that's a big IF, you contacted your congressman, and IF he was a veteran, as you described, then why did he not already know about this bill? IF all of the above is even remotely true then he is nnot someone who should be representing anyone. And you most likely voted for him. IF that is true you are also an idiot....</description>
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<title>Comment by . (December 2, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153907</link>
<description>EMPTY BARRELS ANDY
EMPTY BARRELS

TWINKIE TIME BOY...

AIRDALE,DON'T LET THE FRAUD BOTHER YOU BROTHER.

ANDY,MR TF77,AGAIN,WHERE WAS DELTA STATION?

KEEP UP THE NAME CALLING AND THE AD NAUSEM POSTING,YOU ARE HELPING THIS BILL BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SICK OF YOUR ATTACKS ON OUR VETS....</description>
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<title>Comment by The Corky (December 2, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153920</link>
<description>Sorry there &quot;.&quot;, but you are misinformed. What people are sick of is the constant whining, crying and moaning from veterans wanting &quot;more, more, more.&quot; Even the old guys who were there are getting tired of it all....</description>
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<title>Comment by For Tin Can Sallo (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#152812</link>
<description>I'll tell you what I see now - a bunch of crybabies, who can't find any other explanations for why they are getting old and sick, who want someone to give them some free money. All of you are just a bunch of leeches trying to suck up as much as you can get. Worthless leeches, each and every one of you....</description>
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<title>Comment by Tom... (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#152850</link>
<description>All military punks are like that. Free college, free health care, free training, disabilioty, it goes on and on. As I see it you are worthless!!!Show me a ex military person and I will show you a person who has nothing to add. Get lost....</description>
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<title>Comment by AndyJohnson (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#152889</link>
<description>&quot;Is there some sort of wall along the coast of Vietnam that prevents AO from reaching the ocean.&quot;

This is the same ole tired claptrap from the BWN playbook. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit disregarded it and neither the DVA or the IOM found any evidence that any substantial amount of herbicide from spray operations ever made its way to sea.

Fact of the matter is the reports I read stated 'drift' was limited to 1 or 2 kilometers. The half life of dioxin in air exposed to sunlight was measured as one hour. 

In any event, we have extensive experience spraying crops in the U.S over the last 80 years or so and I suspect 'drift' is a known factor. I think we pretty much know what 'drift' amounts to and there hasn't been a single report that 'drift' in Vietnam was a problem.

Find the evidence or find a new whine. This one is old....</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by . (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#152904</link>
<description>BLAH

BLAH
BLAH
BLAH OOOH A TWINKIE!...</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by For those who oppose this bill (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#152937</link>
<description>Please contact your legislators and tell them there is NO evidence that bluewater sailors were harmed by herbicides and that there is NO evidence that Agent Orange was used in Thailand or Guam in quantities that necessitate presumption. Insist they examine qualified scientific evidence. Tell them you OPPOSE this bill because the scientific evidence does not support harm to these veterans and that you want them to vote AGAINST it should it ever come to the floor.

Please contact your legislators and tell them there is NO evidence that service in the Republic was responsible for digestive system cancers. Insist they examine qualified scientific evidence. Tell them you OPPOSE this bill because the scientific evidence does not support harm to these veterans and that you want them to vote AGAINST it should it ever come to the floor....</description>
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<title>Comment by Tom. (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153045</link>
<description>&quot;Please contact your legislators&quot; 

More and more begging. This country is tired of you ex military jerks who think you have every thing in the world coming to you. Do you think the whole world rotates around you? You are on your way to loosing the forth war in a row. I dont like it. Congress feeds all of you. Look at this from a real tax payers point. Why do we have to go broke taking care of a bunch of loosers who, by this site,
are never even happy with each other. Thanks Doughnut hole for turning me on to this crap....</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Airdale. (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153329</link>
<description>Well, It looks like Lardo has found a friend, or just as in the past, used another name. Come on Twinkster, Is that all you've got.

You have enough room to cut and paste one more time so you can have the last word on this page.

I sent a copy of this sight to my Congressman this morning. He was in the Navy for 26 years with Lots of action in Vietnam. He asked his laison for veterans affairs to make a few phone calls on behalf of 2254. Go air up a tire and eat another twinkie...</description>
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<title>Comment by Poor Airdale (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153333</link>
<description>Just keeps making up things to make himself feel &quot;important.&quot; If you had a clue about anything you would be dangerous. As it is you are just a silly a$$....</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Tin Can Sailor (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153344</link>
<description>I tried to ignore the words of verbally abusive people but just can't understand where this obvious hatred comes from.  Vets who served there country, many making the ultimate sacrifice including my brother, being called crybabies, a bunch of leeches wanting free money, worthless leeches, military punks just wanting free everything, vets have nothing to ad, etc, etc, etc.  This from just 2 of you offering an insight into your inteligence. Where were you and where are you now when your country needs you?...</description>
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<title>Comment by Poor Tin Can Sailor (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153364</link>
<description>You make it sound like everyone should consider you as heroes. You are not a hero and you deserve no respect for doing a job. If you do not like what is being said you should not read it....</description>
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<title>Comment by Airdale. (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153387</link>
<description>Thanks for your service &quot;Tin Can Sailor&quot; And thats from a Marine.

Now, Buckwheat,
We as veterans don't care what you think. 
Our job is to get this bill passed. Let us go forward. 207 congressmen. At 218 we will have a lot more options. I have nothing to gain but for the many people I have met a the VA Hospital in Dallas and what little I do as a VSO.My way of saying thanks for being there.  Semper Fi...</description>
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<title>Comment by LRM (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153477</link>
<description>Beach Jumpers [TF77] Has no record of any Andy Johnson. Now your lying about being a Seal. You've hit a spot close to me now. May you rot in hell....</description>
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<title>Comment by AndyJohnson (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153611</link>
<description>&quot;Now your lying about being a Seal. You've hit a spot close to me now.&quot;

You never served offshore, eh? It appears you haven't a clue about the structure of the Fleet  or its various elements.

Google won't do you much good unless you actually know something about what you are searching for.

Task Force 77  (TF-77) has been the aircraft carrier battle/strike force of the Seventh Fleet in the United States Navy (USN) since the Seventh Fleet was formed.

During the Vietnam War Task, Task Force 77 conducted carrier strike operations from the Gulf of Tonkin and South China Sea for nine years, from 1964 to 1973. Twenty-one of the Navy's 23 operational carriers made at least one cruise with the Task Force and served over 9,100 days on the line.

The battle group included Destroyers, Cruisers and Battleships as well as Birdfarms....</description>
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<title>Comment by AndyJohnson (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153623</link>
<description>&quot;We as veterans don't care what you think. &quot;

Really??? It appears there's a lot of folks with their panties in a wad over what I write and a number of folks that seem to agree.

&quot;At 218 we will have a lot more options.&quot;

What options might those be? You don't really understand the legislative process, do ya?

&quot;Now, Buckwheat,&quot;

Still can't resist name calling, eh? Obviously someone without a valid argument. Sorta like this Bill. No evidence!!...</description>
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<title>Comment by AndyJohnson (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153651</link>
<description>&quot;I sent a copy of this sight to my Congressman this morning. He was in the Navy for 26 years with Lots of action in Vietnam.&quot;

Perfect!!! Every legislator should read what's being said here, then go back and ask for the evidence and examine the &quot;Australian Study&quot; and the VA objections to it.  I suspect your Congressman and I would have a lot in common. Perhaps we are even shipmates, who knows?...</description>
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<title>Comment by .. (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153657</link>
<description>What in the hell is buckwheat talking about? I thought you was a admiral at the port of siagon. Get me another beer. So he wasn't a beach jumper? Just part of the 7th fleet. how do you go about getting in that elite group? I have never met a ,man with so much knowledge. I'm glade you are here. What do you know about windmills?...</description>
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<title>Comment by AndyJohnson (December 1, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#153718</link>
<description>&quot;What do you know about windmills?&quot;

Just that you are attempting to emulate one or maybe that was a big windbag....</description>
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<title>Comment by AndyJohnson (November 30, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#151772</link>
<description>&quot;Yankee station is only 90miles from Hue&quot;

you will of course provide a citation for that, eh?

about 190 km (120 mi) due east of Dong Hoi, at 17° 30' N and 108° 30' E
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Station

about 160 km (100 mi) from the coast, at 16° N latitude and 110° E longitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Yankee_Station

In the end, it still doesn't matter where Yankee Station was as the discussion between myself and airdale was about digestive system cancers even though this forum is about the BWN Bill and there is no evidence of any kind that digestive system cancers are associated with exposure to herbicide.

These cancers are more likely the result of old age, genetics, lifestyle choices and exposure to toxins right here in the USA....</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by . (November 30, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#151793</link>
<description>ANDY JOHNSON I DON'T GIVE A SH$T WHO YOU ARE.
YOUR JUST A GOVT.TIT SUCKING,TWINKIE EATING BLOWHARD WITH NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT HARASS OUR AMERICAN HEROS.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE,ALL EXCEPT TWINKIE MAN IF HE IS EVEN A VET....</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by . (November 30, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#151794</link>
<description>TWINKIE MAN,HOW ABOUT DELTA STATION?...</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by . (November 30, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#151795</link>
<description>MR TF77 TWINKIE,ITS NOT ON WIKIPIDIA
BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU OLD SALTY TWINKIE....</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by For those who oppose this bill (November 30, 2009, 01:00:00)</title>
<link>http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2254.html#151845</link>
<description>Please contact your legislators and tell them there is NO evidence that bluewater sailors were harmed by herbicides and that there is NO evidence that Agent Orange was used in Thailand or Guam in quantities that necessitate presumption. Insist they examine qualified scientific evidence. Tell them you OPPOSE this bill because the scientific evidence does not support harm to these veterans and that you want them to vote AGAINST it should it ever come to the floor....</description>
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