Weapons of Mass Destruction Found... in Our Oceans!

Well apparently we needed to look no further than off our shores to find weapons of mass destruction. We invaded Iraq to look for something that wasn't there, because it was being dumped just off our coastline.

From the Daily Press:

"The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels."

"We do not claim to know where they all are," said William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the Army Chemical Materials Agency and a leading authority on the Army's chemical weapons dumping."We don't want to be cavalier at all and say this stuff was exposed to water and is OK. It can last for a very, very long time."

Hundreds of dolphins washed ashore in Virginia and New Jersey shorelines in 1987 with burns similar to mustard gas exposure. One marine-mammal specialist suspects Army-dumped chemical weapons killed them.

This is a facsinating story that should be read in full.