Contractors poisoned our troops

// added June 22, 2008 // 16 comments //
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Witnesses linked a highly toxic chemical, sodium dichromate, to illnesses reported by soldiers and workers at an Iraq plant. KBR, the lead contractor on the Qarmat Ali project and one of the largest defense contractors in Iraq was accused of knowingly exposing solders to the chemical, during a senate hearing yesterday.

"These soldiers were bleeding from the nose, spitting blood,” said Danny Langford, an equipment technician from Texas brought to work at the Qarmat Ali Water treatment plant in 2003. “They were sick.”

Even the smallest exposure to sodium dichromate, an orange powdery substance, can cause cancer. The liver and the immune system may also be suppressed.

"Edward Blacke, who served as KBR’s health, safety, and environmental coordinator for the Qarmat Ali project, said he saw soldiers with “continuous bloody noses, spitting up of blood, coughing, irritation of the noses, eyes, throat, and lungs, shortness of breath.”

The Pentagon and KBR dismiss the charges claiming everyone will be fine.
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16 comments // Contractors poisoned our troops

  • natdagod
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      natdagod  

    • they don't give a fuk bout no body... they knew and they know before hand... even the troops are part of the plan for population control.....they don't want all them to come back home cuz then they'd have to take care of them,,they don't and never did that and will never do that.. watch out in comin!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • plusaf
  • patsarts
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      patsarts  

    • War is a business, a business of killing people - so why would KBR care who they kill or how, as long as the money keeps flowing in.

    • 1 year ago
  • egarlow
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      egarlow  

    • This is nothing new. Many of our vets come home with mild to severe health problems caused by experimental vaccines, exposure, etc. that the government will sweep under the rug. It’s terrifying that the military can and does get away with it.

    • 1 year ago
  • J_Jammer
  • VoyagerFilms
    • 0
      VoyagerFilms  

    • Cheney and everyone / anyone connected to him should have all their known and hidden assets world wide ceased and returned to the American taxpayers in the form of rebate checks.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dmitri_Molotov
  • lifestudentno83
  • bluestranger
  • Dmitri_Molotov
  • amirct3
  • uroborus8
  • Dmitri_Molotov
  • amirct3
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      amirct3  

    • If you watch the documentary Iraq for Sale it discusses that 63 out of 67 water plants had been exposed to contaminated water that supplied the troop s with water and KBR was made aware. They told the employee that alerted them not to worry about it and cash his paycheck.

    • 1 year ago
  • RonenA
  • BretByron
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      BretByron  

    • KBR is one of Dich Cheney's companies along with Haliburton wich have made over $27.5 Billion of tax payer money in the last eight years from government contracts. Another nail in that fuckers coffin.

    • 1 year ago
  • M_Pavlov
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      M_Pavlov  

    • Man, I got a bad feelin' about this. Something tells me this isn't the last story like this we will be seeing. Condolences to the troops, and shame on our government for not holding "contractors" to any sort of moral or legals standards.

    • 1 year ago

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