2011年8月21日日曜日

C'mon, guys, let's have some truth

Just because the documents are gone doesn't mean the poison is gone. Reality is not so simplistic. Here's what The Japan Times reports about the US response to their own soldiers' claims about Agent Orange:

The Pentagon has once again denied allegations that the U.S. military buried the highly toxic defoliant Agent Orange in Okinawa, the Foreign Ministry said.

"The U.S. Department of Defense said that it once again reviewed past records and found no documents confirming that the U.S. military stored or used defoliant in Okinawa before its reversion" to Japan, the ministry said in a statement late Friday.


So, if the documents went away, does that mean the soldiers' health issues will also go away? I don't think so. Do you?

PS: And what about the innocent kids who are growing up with that stuff in their environment?