I began my day by reading this piece in Salon.com, and haven't really been able to think about much else since then.
Welcome to Armageddon
A joint investigation by Salon and Rolling Stone reveals why the Bush administration hasn't found any weapons of mass destruction: It's looking in the wrong place.
the piece focuses on one wacko's hilltop laboratory outside of Newport, TN, with sheds full of something (new to me) called PFIB, a deadly lung-attacking gas, yard stacked with rusted leaking cylinders of other kinds of gases; just one of many such open sites. a terrorist's smorgasbord of weapons obtainable just by hopping a fence. i can't say any of this better than the article itself, so the rest of this entry is quote. i do urge you to read the entire piece for yourself. you'll need a daypass to do it, but - trust me, you really need to read this thing. clearly we can't blame all of this on this Administration. we CAN request that Homeland Security and the DOD start paying some serious attention to the threats easily at hand in our own country.
"One of the ultimate ironies is that for all of the U.S. government's finger-pointing at Iraq and other countries -- nations we're challenging to account for every one of their weapons of mass destruction -- our country is riddled with similar weapons that our government itself can't even find," says Elizabeth Crowe, an organizer for the Chemical Weapons Working Group, a coalition of citizens living near chemical-weapons sites.
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