Agent Orange is Okinawa's smoking gun

[unhappycamper]

http://atimes.com/atimes/Japan/NJ12Dh01.html

Agent Orange is Okinawa's smoking gun
By Jon Mitchell
Oct 12, 2012

Since 1945, the small Japanese island of Okinawa has been unwilling host to a massive US military presence and a storehouse for a witches' brew of dangerous munitions and chemicals, including nerve gas, mustard gas, and nuclear missiles. However, there is one weapon the Pentagon has always denied that it kept on Okinawa: Agent Orange.

Now, for the first time, a recently uncovered US army report reveals that, during the Vietnam War, the United States stockpiled 25,000 barrels of Agent Orange on the Pacific island. The barrels, containing over 1.4 million gallons of the toxic defoliant, were brought to Okinawa from Vietnam before being taken to Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, where the US military incinerated its stocks of the compound in 1977.

Contradicting decades of denial by Washington, the report is the first direct admission by the US military that it stored these poisons on Okinawa. A series of photographs was also uncovered, apparently showing the 25,000 barrels in storage on Okinawa's Camp Kinser, near the prefectural capital of Naha.

The army report, published in 2003 but only recently discovered, is titled "An Ecological Assessment of Johnston Atoll." Outlining the military's efforts to clean up the tiny island that the United States used throughout the Cold War to store and dispose of its stockpiles of biochemical weapons, the report states directly, "In 1972, the US Air Force brought about 25,000 55-gallon (208 liter) drums of the chemical Herbicide Orange (HO) to Johnston Island that originated from Vietnam and was stored on Okinawa."

[Scootaloo]

1. I say we dispose of it by serving one glass to Don Rumsfeld with every meal until it's gone

I'd say the same for Dick Cheney, but I think giving toxic soup to that motherfucker might give him super powers.