From Raw Story:
Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company.
At least 22 separate lawsuits claiming KBR poisoned American soldiers in Iraq have been combined into a single massive lawsuit that says KBR, which until not long ago was a subsidiary of Halliburton, sought to save money by disposing of toxic waste and incinerating numerous potentially harmful substances in open-air “burn pits.”
According to one of the lawsuits (PDF), filed in a federal court in Nashville, KBR burned “tires, lithium batteries … biohazard materials (including human corpses), medical supplies (including those used during smallpox inoculations), paints, solvents, asbestos insulation, items containing pesticides, polyvinyl chloride pipes, animal carcasses, dangerous chemicals, and hundreds of thousands of plastic water bottles.”
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Tricia // November 10, 2009 at 4:59 am
You know – that kind of stuff really chaps my ass. First Dick Cheney and them haul us into a war designed to fill certain bank accounts, then they hire their friends, then those friends fuck over every poor schmuck in the region.
These people suck.
And they keep running the world.
No wonder I refuse to work with grown ups.
jdhays // November 10, 2009 at 8:59 am
Yeah, Trish, and what’s especially unconscionable is the great suffering and harm these flag-pin fakers have needlessly inflicted on our dedicated men and women in the armed forces. To me these remain actionable, treasonous offenses.