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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

U.S. Urges Judge to Let Agent Orange Vietnam War Criminals Off the Hook

The Justice Department is urging a federal judge in Brooklyn to dismiss a lawsuit aimed at forcing a re-examination of one of the most contentious issues of the Vietnam War, the use of the defoliant Agent Orange.

...The judge... asked from the bench whether precedents concerning the treatment of makers of Zyklon B, the hydrogen cyanide gas used in Nazi death camps, might be applicable to the claims against the companies that supplied Agent Orange to the military.

After World War II, two manufacturers of Zyklon B were convicted of war crimes and executed.

Life without parole for the Dow Chemical war criminals would suffice for me.

Jack Clark 9:10 PM [+]   
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