smirk stops guarding of WMD in Ky.

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2005/01/13ky/B2-chemical01130-8542.html


Citing potential risk to their community, Madison County officials yesterday denounced a plan to delay destruction of more than 500 tons of chemical weapons at the Blue Grass Army Depot.

In a related development, the National Guard has begun withdrawing troops from security duty at the site, ending a mission prompted by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The Guard also is withdrawing from Indiana's Newport Chemical Depot and six other chemical weapons storage sites.

The Pentagon has proposed cutting funding for the 15,500-acre depot in Kentucky to about $15million next year, from $105million.

Critics said the military is breaking its promises and exposing communities to many more years of potential danger.

Weapons stored at the depot include the nerve gas sarin and the toxic liquid VX.
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homeland security my foot

bet all these guards are going to Iraq

If we have any real threats in this country from terrorists, this increases the risk that they can pull something off. This is not smart when we are (supposedly) at war.

Berea College) are in Madison Co. Lexington is only 20 minutes away. Not one single day goes by when these fools don't create another abomination. Fifteen or so years ago the army brass had a public meeting in Richmond because they were planning to bring more dangerous materials in from other sites; the residents of Richmond/Berea/Lexington had such a fit that the idea never materialized. Reagan days!

How many or where other chem. depots were in the US! I did know about the one in OR and that the state asked for it to be removed several years ago. As far as I know the ovens for destroying it have not been completed.
I would like all here to know that a 9/11 here in the NW could make the recent tsunami look like a picnic!

The Pentagon now will not fund the building of a facility to dispose of the chemicals. This is bizarre. They are also obligated to get rid of this stuff by, I believe, 2012 by a previously agreed to international treaty.

This stuff is so volatile that the OR refused to allow it moved through the state to Nevada to burn it in the mining ovens, and Nevada refused it also.
The state of Nevada already gets millions from the government for all the "crap" they have dumped there for years, and it has the fastest population growth in the US! What are these people going to build homes and family security on?