The Pentagon Spending Sprees
Occupation Iraq: KBR'S Chemical Killings
Whose pockets do you think all that "MISSING" MONEY went into anyway?
All while they make PEOPLE SICK!!!!
"Indiana guardsmen sue defense contractor KBR; Say firm knew of exposure to carcinogen" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | December 4, 2008
WASHINGTON - Sixteen Indiana national guardsmen filed a lawsuit yesterday accusing KBR, the Houston-based US defense contractor, of knowingly exposing them to "one of the most potent carcinogens" known to man while they guarded a water treatment plant in Iraq that the company was repairing.
The complaint alleges that several reservists contracted respiratory system tumors and skin rashes after guarding reconstruction work at the Qarmat Ali treatment plant, which had been looted and was strewn with chromium dichromate, an anticorrosion substance used on pipes that greatly increases the chances of developing cancer and other health problems.
KBR managers "disregarded and downplayed the extreme danger of wholesale site contamination," alleges the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Indiana. The lawsuit accuses the company of gross negligence, alleging that reservists "were repeatedly told that there was no danger on the site" even after tests on civilian KBR workers showed elevated levels of chromium.
KBR was under a deadline to finish repairs on the plant, which pumped water to Iraq's oil fields. It knew in April 2003 that the chemical was harmful but did not clean the site until September, according to internal company memos filed in the case....
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And we all know why the government and war-looting corporations will never take responsibility for their chemical and biological atrocities against people -- because then they will be made to PAY!! But SUPPORT the TROOPS!!!!!!
Never mind the why Afghanistan's children are sick.
Also see:
The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children
The Effects of Depleted Uranium
Occupation Iraq: AmeriKa's Second Hiroshima
The U.S. Has Already Used Nukes in Iraq and Afghanistan
Afghanistan is the New Auschwitz
Disaster in Afghanistan
Memory Hole: Bush's Liberations: AIDS
The Children of Afghanistan
Afghan 'health link' to uranium
U.S. Wages Chemical Warfare on Afghanistan
Millions of Afghans Face Starvation
That DU gonna come home to YOU, too, America! Wait until your soldiers' wives start birthing deformed babies like Iraqis and Afghanis! Gonna be ready to hang some people then, or will it be too late?
