Agent Orange A-OK

An American judge has ruled in favor of the chemical companies who provided the U.S. army with Agent Orange in Vietnam.

The suit said up to 4 million Vietnamese people suffered from dioxin poisoning due to Agent Orange, a defoliant dumped by U.S. warplanes on Vietnamese jungles to destroy sources of food and cover.

Dioxin can cause cancer, deformities and organ dysfunction.

U.S. forces sprayed an estimated 20 million gallons of herbicides, including Agenct Orange, on Vietnam during the war but the chemical remained in the water and soil decades later.

Weinstein said the evidence of injuries in the case was presented in "brief anecdotal form," and "the fact that diseases were experienced by some people after spraying does not suffice to prove ... that the harm resulted to individuals because of the spraying."

The case had been closely watched as a test of the reach of U.S. courts as it considered the power of the U.S. president to authorize use of hazardous materials during war.
  Reuters article

"Hazardous materials" - not "chemical weapons", or "weapons of mass destruction". What do you call them? When we, in the pest management business use them for crop protection, we call them hazardous materials. I'm thinking when they're used for warfare and for crop destruction, they slip into another category. But, that's just me.

And bullf*ck on that anecdotal evidence of disease connection. Why do you think they have applicator warning labels when you buy them for crop protection?

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.