US Finds WMDs!!!!!
So the Pentagon has finally located some incontrovertible evidence of WMDs… in Maryland. Apparently the Iraqis aren’t the only ones who can’t explain where their WMDs went, or produce records to locate them…
The good news for the Pentagon yesterday was that its investigators had finally unearthed evidence of weapons of mass destruction, including 100 vials of anthrax and other dangerous bacteria. The bad news was that the stash was found, not in Iraq, but fewer than 50 miles from Washington, near Fort Detrick in the Maryland countryside.
Two years of digging at the U.S. Army’s Fort Detrick in Frederick has unearthed more than 2,000 tons of hazardous waste — including vials of live bacteria and nonvirulent anthrax that the military did not know was buried there … Fort Detrick’s cleanup saga shows how, nearly 40 years after the United States ended such programs at home, it still struggles with their lingering dangers. As in the Middle East, poor documentation, the passage of time and the programs’ secrecy have slowed the effort … “You never know what’s there until you start digging,” Ball said. “We’ve generally ruled out finding a nuclear weapon.”
After reading this, what a relief it is, I say, that the Bush Gang has asked that the Pentagon be exempted from basic environmental protection regulations.