WMD Found - the US government dumped them in our oceans

[drwex]

No, really. 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents; 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste. Disposed of by the extremely clever methods of (a) dumping them overboard or (b) putting them into the holds of ships that were then scuttled.

The sites cannot be examined. Why? Because "Army records are sketchy, missing or were destroyed." That's OK, though, because deep-sea fishermen are finding the stuff for the Pentagon. In the past couple decades more than 200 fishermen have been burned by mustard gas pulled on deck.

I swear I can't make this shit up. Read the bits about the ship that blew up as it was being sunk, or the nerve gas shell that made its way into a Delaware neighborhood driveway.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/13070288.htm

Comments

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Actually, based on the article, there doesn't really seem to be any attempt to deceive, just a total lack of concern for the consequences of their actions, lack of record keeping, vagueness of the records kept and lots of things that point to total cluelessness and, again, a total lack of concern for the possible consequences of their actions.

But they actually are trying to figure these things (where the stuff is, what the consequences are) out, even if a lot of the people are painting rosy pictures of the situation "We're sure that everything is fine by now, even though we have no information and no way to get information because we never really knew where the things were in the first place."