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The Mad Tiger replied: A difficult figure to estimate - does it include the uncountable 1000s who died due to US bombing & the relea…

@PaulBJ ·

A difficult figure to estimate - does it include the uncountable 1000s who died due to US bombing & the release of millions of cluster bomblets on Laos & other non-combatants but the US didn't give a fuck about their lives. I happened to be in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, when Obama visited for the ASEAN summit. He promised the Lao people $5 million to help Laos clean up the disgraceful mass of unexploded ordnance that the US inflicted in that benighted country. £5 billion would be needed!

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Leefeller @Leefeller: 13 months in Vietnam, was so glad to get back home. Vietnam is a beautiful country with beautiful people, I know we should never have been in Vietnam. "The Vietnam War resulted in an estimated 1.35 million to 3.8 million total deaths, including combatants and civilians across So East Asia" 58,220 U…

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