let's say you're an epa officer

let's say you were appointed by king george. BUT let's ALSO say you're honest, you're doing YOUR JOB, you're worried about the earth. you're worried about the toxic carcinogenic chemicals BIG BID-NEZ is shitting onto the earth. let's say you did the RIGHT THING by telling big-bid nez to knock it the hell off. to stop dumping chemicals, to clean up their act.

let's then say king george fires you

let's then ask the american public if we're going to stand for this (it appears we are)
Administration Reportedly Forces Out EPA Official

By Juliet Eilperin and Kari Lydersen Washington Post Staff Writers
A senior regional Environmental Protection Agency official who had feuded with Dow Chemical over a toxic cleanup site in Michigan resigned Thursday under pressure from the Bush administration, according to published reports.
Mary A. Gade, who headed the EPA's Midwest regional office in Chicago, had fought for months with Dow over plans to address dioxin-contaminated soil and sediment in Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron stemming from the chemical giant's Midland, Mich., plant. Dioxin, which at low levels of exposure has been found to cause cancer as well as immune and reproductive system problems, is a byproduct in the production of Agent Orange and other chemical products.
Gade -- who was appointed to her post in 2006 by President Bush -- told the Chicago Tribune on Thursday that two aides to EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson stripped her of her power as regional administrator and informed her she could either quit or be fired by June 1. "There's no question this is about Dow," she told the Tribune. "I stand behind what I did and what my staff did. I'm proud of what we did."
Efforts to reach Gade to independently confirm the Tribune account were unsuccessful. .......

it's been over thirty years

and we have still not cleaned up our mess in vietnam (not even mentioning fully taking care of our vietnam vets). can you imagine how many years iraq will be with us? our grandchildren's children or beyond?

Agent Orange work progresses in Vietnam
U.S. and Vietnam Take Steps to Contain Agent Orange Contamination at Old U.S. Air Base
BEN STOCKING
More than three decades after the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam have just completed temporary steps to contain dioxin contamination at a former U.S. air base in Danang. But the U.S. government, as well as U.S. foundations and corporations, should contribute more money to clean up the site permanently, members of a joint U.S.-Vietnamese working group on Agent Orange said Friday.
The panel members visited Vietnam this week to meet with U.S. and Vietnamese officials and see the containment work done in Danang, which was completed on Jan. 15.
It will cost at least $14 million to remove dioxin from the site, one of several Agent Orange "hot spots" in Vietnam, said the panel members, who are experts on the environmental, health and political consequences of the herbicide......