CBS: KBR knowingly exposed troops to toxic dust

[lovuian]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CBS_KBR_knew_dangers_of_toxic_1223.html

A CBS News investigation has obtained evidence that a subsidiary of Halliburton, the giant energy company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, knowingly exposed United States soldiers to toxic materials in Iraq.

CBS interviewed Commander James Gentry of the Indiana National Guard, who is dying of a rare form of lung cancer that he believes is the result of "months of inhaling hexavalent chromium" after his battalion was assigned in April 2003 to protect contractors from Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) working in Iraq at a local water plant. Other members of his unit are also suffering from cancers or rashes associated with the toxic chemical, which was all over the plant.

"We didn't question what we were doing," a grief-stricken Gentry told CBS. "We just knew we had to provide a security service for the KBR. ... We would never have been there if we would have known."

CBS has obtained documents which indicate that KBR knew about the danger months before the soldiers were informed. KBR employee depositions show there were "concerns about the toxins in one part of the plant as early as May of 2003," while later minutes detail symptoms of exposure, including bloody noses and rashes.

It wasn't until the end of August that the Indiana National Guardsmen were informed that the plant was contaminated, and some say they have only just learned about it this year.
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If they think American troops will fire on American citizens when they know that the Government didn't give a damn about them ...they may think again

[valerief]

1. Like KBR cares. When this admin sends people overseas to die, they die one way or another.

:mad:

[seemslikeadream]

2. MURDER

[lovuian]

8. They are pretty evil crew

its very sad

[earth mom]

10. I totally agree. nt

[TahitiNut]

3. Shades of Erin Brockovich ... and the PG&E class action. Unfuckingreal.

KBR deserves total confiscation and imprisonment of everyone involved.

[truedelphi]

12. I thought of E.B. too. And is it totally

Unfuckingreal.

The bastards.

[dflprincess]

4. To quote Dick Cheney

"So?"

:sarcasm:

Is the media going to keep pushing this story or will it fade away like so many others?

[KansDem]

5. And to semi-quote George W. Bush

"Who cares what <they> think?"

[Ilsa]

7. They will ignore it to blame the economic failure on Obama in February. nt

[ecstatic]

6. A friend of mine is thinking about working for KBR in Iraq :(

She's been out of work for months and is now desperate. They are offering 147k/year.

[tabasco]

9. Up against the wall, traitors.

These profiteering fuckers only care about money.

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