Occupation Iraq: KBR and the Indiana Guard

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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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Symptoms of chromium exposure - such as a bloody nose and respiratory complaints - were common throughout Iraq, Dr. Craig Hyams, chief consultant for environmental health at the Department of Veterans Affairs said. But he acknowledged that it may still be too early to understand the impact. "Veterans Affairs is still analyzing the effects of Agent Orange," Hyams said, referring to the defoliant used in the Vietnam war. --more--"

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?