Mustard gas leaks in Kentucky

What the fuck is a chemical weapons stockpile doing in my state?

Yesterday, it was confirmed that mustard gas was released by an Army depot in Richmond, Kentucky. For those unfamiliar with mustard gas, it's an incapacitating chemical weapon that burns and blisters skin. Mustard gas is potentially fatal.

Plochman's it ain't.

This leak comes less than a month after sarin, a nerve agent far deadlier than mustard gas, leaked at the same depot - and only 3 years after another mustard gas leak, which the media also ignored.

Officials deny that the mustard gas leak poses any danger. This is bullshit, of course. Any time you release mustard gas so close to a populated area, there's a risk. Sarin is even worse.

But have no fear. All the mustard gas at this depot is supposed to be destroyed - by 2017. That's assuming the Pentagon even bothers to pay to have it destroyed.

(Source: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/ap_mustardgasleak_072908/%2e)