Uncle Sam: Leadership or Run-Away-and Hider-ship?

No need to shoot your messengers, Uncle Sam, since they are already dying of cancer.

Former Okinawa military base workers whose claims for health care have been repeatedly denied have opened the rusty barrel and let the truth leak out: the US imported and used Agent Orange in Okinawa. It is still there.

While it is apparently OK to ask young people to lay down their lives for Uncle Sam, it is apparently not OK for US military brass to admit they did a wrong thing and try to make it right.

Read the whole story (with photos) at this link.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/04/issues/as-evidence-of-agent-orange-in-okinawa-stacks-up-u-s-sticks-with-blanket-denial/

See a portion here:


As evidence of Agent Orange in Okinawa stacks up, U.S. sticks with blanket denial

No bases visited, no vets interviewed for Pentagon probe into dioxin in Okinawa

by Jon Mitchell



Jun 4, 2013


In April 2011, these Community pages published the first accounts of sick U.S. veterans who believe their illnesses were caused by exposure to Agent Orange on Okinawa during the Vietnam War era.

Since that initial article, The Japan Times has published a further dozen stories in which retired service members alleged toxic herbicides were stored and sprayed on the island — as well as buried in large volumes on Futenma air station and in what is now a popular tourist area in Chatan Town. Japanese former base workers have corroborated veterans’ accounts and photographs seem to show barrels of these herbicides on Okinawa. U.S. military documents cite the presence of Agent Orange there during the 1960s and ’70s.

Suggestions that these poisonous substances were widely used on their island have worried Okinawa residents, and politicians including Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima have demanded that the U.S. government come clean on the issue.