"US court upholds dismissal of agent orange suit"
"A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the dismissal of a civil lawsuit against major US chemical companies brought by Vietnamese plaintiffs over the use of the defoliant agent orange during the Vietnam War.
The ruling, handed down by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, concluded that the plaintiffs could not pursue their claims against
Like what DU does now.
A US District Court judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., ruled in March 2005 that the plaintiffs failed to show that the use of agent orange, supplied to the US military in Vietnam, violated a ban on the use of poisonous weapons in war and that the lawsuit did not prove that the plaintiffs' health problems were linked to the chemical.
"Although the herbicide campaign may have been controversial, the record before us supports the conclusion that agent orange was used as a defoliant and not as a poison designed for or targeting human populations," Judge Roger Miner wrote for the three-judge appeals court panel.
Translation: The U.S. used CHEMICAL WEAPONS in Vietnam!!!
And we DID IT AGAIN in Iraq!!!!
And it was ALL LEGAL!!!!
The court also upheld two other agent orange rulings, including one in a case brought by veterans and their families who said their health problems did not become apparent until after a 1984 class-action settlement was reached with a group of veterans. In that case, the Second Circuit found that, as government contractors, the chemical companies could be shielded from liability.
WTF?!?!
So NO WAR CONTRACTORS are ever liable for ANYTHING, are they?
Not for murder, not for theft, not for torture, nothing!!
"These decisions mean that, if these decisions are not reversed by the Supreme Court, the era of agent orange litigation has ended," said Jonathan Moore, an attorney for the Vietnamese plaintiffs.
He said his clients were "deeply disappointed" and would appeal.
The Vietnamese plaintiffs contended that the chemical makers were directly accountable for providing the US military with agent orange, which got its name because it was stored in large drums marked with orange bands. US warplanes dropped about 18 million gallons of the defoliant, also known as dioxin, on South Vietnam for most of the 1960s to destroy large areas of vegetation.
But OUR USE of CHEMICAL WEAPONS to KILL MILLIONS isn't a big deal.
Saddam Hussein, on the other hand...
Yeah, I'm ready to puke now, readers!
The United States has maintained that there is no scientifically proven link between the wartime spraying and the claims of dioxin poisoning by more than 3 million people in Vietnam."
Well, seeing as the U.S. is a bunch of lying shit scums, fuck them and their excuses!
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