Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Military Ignored Warnings About 'Burn Pits'


Keep in mind this was going on heavily during the previous administration and republican controlled congress, who weren't questioning anything even as members were visiting both theaters. It's like we never fought in wars of choice, as this wasn't the only extremely troubling issue. And while some actions have apparently taken place at in country bases apparently the practice continues.

Danger To Troops, Whistleblower Testimony And Documents Show

American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from new ailments that have nothing to do with bullets or bombs or battlefield stress. It was, they believe, something in the air.

As you might imagine, an army produces a lot of garbage. And the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan has burned tons of that trash since the beginning of the war. But these are not your average country trash fires. They are called burn pits and they are enormous, one was the size of several football fields. What's burned? Everything. Plastic to foam to batteries, computers and paint, even human body parts — you name it — it was stacked in these burn pits and set ablaze. Many times jet fuel was used as the igniter.

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Now doctors studying these cases tell us they believe we could see thousands more become ill from the burn pits.

The military finally closed the pit at Balad last fall, but soldiers and former employees of Houston-based KBR tell us the same practices are still in place at a number of burn pits in both war zones.

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We're wrapping up an investigation into the burn pits and will have much more next Tuesday night May 4th at 8pm EDT on HDNet's "Dan Rather Reports." -->-->-->


Also keep in mind, the soldiers aren't the only ones coming back and suffering from the physical repercussions, this is just one more huge issue, aside from the terror lived through, the innocents of the countries occupied will have as long term results of these invasions and occupations, along with so much more!

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