You have to wonder how Secretary of War Rumsfeld and other former Reagan administration officials would react to this piece of news from Radio Netherlands.
Dutchman on trial for Iraq genocide
The trial has opened in The Hague of a Dutch businessman accused of complicity in war crimes and genocide in Iraq and Iran. In 1980s Frans van Anraat allegedly supplied Saddam Hussein with chemicals which were used to manufacture the chemical weapons used by Iraq in the war against Iran and against the Kurds in northern Iraq. A poison gas attack in Halabja killed an estimated 5,000 Kurds.
Mr Van Anraat's defence lawyers claim he had no idea what the chemicals would be used for. However, several witnesses have stated that he knew exactly what the Iraqi regime would do with the chemicals.
The trial is expected to last three weeks.
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