somehow you go to move big contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left. with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from nine eleven to two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a billion dollars off the war. the future. defending the woman is no longer about. the. disaster. is who are we doing. oh number. of units one for. work from home for these hundreds of millions of dollars. to. u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. the veterans who

are now suing k.b.r. because of their what they believe service connected health interests say that k.b.r. short sighted didn't install center raters when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it was a guess the regulations to do so and as a result they are sick all the contracts that k.b.r. and held more see require them to comply with e.p.a. regulations the allegation is that k.b.r. rather than complying with the contract complying with these environmental regulations disposing only of what should be disposed of using incinerators doing it the right way for reasons often related to profit margins was disposing of dangerous talks and in a way that directly impacted the health of soviet troops. i've seen stuff that was

nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks quite a bit of stuff. that should have been segregated out it was mine it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if you're k.b.r. employee and you're throwing. biological medical waste into the. into the burn pit tires and anything else. that that is known to be a toxin. then you're you're careless and you're you're putting people's health in jeopardy and that's exactly would a lot of these k.b.r. contractors were doing. is. working for k.b.r. and they have knowledge of. hazardous chemicals on the ground of course cancer.

here and i'll. just put in miami and i had a prius that is necessary. i'm. very upset over that. very very upset. that they did. the military exercise regular daily oversight and supervision and periodically issued evaluation reports of k.b.r. performance not just on waste disposal but across all the many functions that k.b.r. performed in the war theaters so the military was aware of what k.b.r. was doing and if they thought that k.b.r. was doing those kind of things then they would have been a position to make those practices you know change to halt very little government oversight on the off scene of the major personnel in directing. actual work force

were killing brown root personnel. i've seen time and time again take your claim that the reason why they didn't do what they were supposed to do is they were allegedly being told to do something or working in the military supervision my experience has been and what i've seen in sworn testimony is that too often our personnel were more or less directing the military about what was going to be done rather than the right way. when i noted the violations infractions and improper actions on the run route reported them to management road towards me and i was basically told shut up that they would make the decisions about them as decisions. the case for rick lambert and what k.b.r. tried to do with him when he tried to expose what was going on can reveal some of the misconduct really points to an attitude that i've seen before or k.b.r. is more concerned about keeping the truth down than fixing the problem. we know

from the g.a.o. reports that have come out since you no wait two thousand and nine two thousand and ten that both the d.o.d. am k.b.r. were not operating these burn pits within their own regulations they were burning as are this materials all over iraq and afghanistan you know this not only from the veterans but through the g.a.o. reports the g.a.o. also found that many of these parapets were still operating as late as two thousand and thirteen and this is at least two years after they were told to shut them down or they would have been a lot better off using incinerators incinerators use less. fuel i believe they're more energy efficient and they release less. and so that

means that any military personnel soldiers and others that are in the air. aren't going to be exposed to toxic chemicals toxic fumes that kind of thing. this was much cheaper of them to do to put high temperature costs. that k.b.r. was merely cutting corners. to save money my understanding is they were given. to do the incentive and so there wasn't a budgetary issue this may have been a cheaper way to go this may have been an easier way to go but it certainly wasn't what was best for our soldiers so far in addition to the congressional inspector general investigations that documented the misconduct. there's been hundreds of. statements by.

was exposing the worst toxins known to man rather than disposing of these things like the. easy. easy. in a come to find out. i was for about six months was built on a chemical. manufacturing storage. and then we went to build a base there was my understanding. with. samples of what was already in the ground or contaminated and they found that the most severe illnesses were coming from five different bases in iraq these bases used to be former chemical weapons facilities the saddam hussein. operator it was actually told to me by

a former k.b.r. employee that they knew the. meeting it was contaminated. flabbergasted inquiry i want to talk about these claims that are being served by plaintiff's lawyers who effectively are saying we don't agree with the decisions that were made by the military there were we think there were safer ways as we said ten years later five years later we think there were safer ways of disposing of waste and somebody should be accountable for not doing it the way that we think was . suggested and try to wrap themselves in all this is about is second guessing military decisions about how to dispose of. waste disposal of waste the problem with that argument that i've seen is that in most cases in fact across the board k.b.r. was wrong in making decisions often concealing what they were doing from the military

. they know what i believe in all these. preventive part because they can here's the incinerators. offline if they were to found out. in i mean if they would have realized. what we did in the fog of war we got to fix this in they took action to fix it. if they didn't. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all that wasn't good they had an indemnity folks so if they screw anything up they don't have to pay for the bill get stuck on the american taxpayer there would be an indemnification or negligence on. the border of cover. injury or.

but under the provisions of those clause that is correct even if they cause injury or death to civilian employees. under the provisions of a cause of course even if they cause injury or death to american soldiers. it does not and does not carve out an exception for civilian with our soldiers which means that means that if in fact the activities fall within the definition of the clause thing k.b.r. could could apply for reimbursement preferable even for death or injury to american soldier that is correct even for the death or injury to report a service one. that's correct even death or injury to iraqi national or other world national working on a cave your project. that's correct they were going to get fully reimbursed for every single legal penny they spent as well as any damages found against them and probably one of the biggest bail outs of government contractor that's been

documented so far. indemnification is is absolutely criminal if we have over one hundred thousand soldiers ill it just shows it's a good example of you know how much our government really cares about our soldiers are just pawns. they're angry they're fire straighted they feel as though they gave . everything they had to the u.s. government they believed doubtless sam had their back when they sent them over to iraq and afghanistan to fight the war they believed when they came back they'd be taking care of. the military the v.a. are supposed to take care of their veterans. and they're supposed to provide good health care and a good transition out of the military and the military and v.a. has failed miserably. and doing this is not only going to burn pit issue but you

know a lot of mental health issues and everything else there are many people who are working with the v.a. who feel that studies have either manipulated have a problem to bias in favor of. results that might air or that's having psychosomatic problems instead of physical problems. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the sixty's the long. view only show i go out of my way to lunch you know a lot of the really packs a punch. is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than the things that you see people you've never heard of love redacted the night. president of the world bank so take. me seriously send us an

e-mail that's because there's a survival guide book stacie just like all the stars simply. be sure you don't step back. repatriations look at the rest of seventy years. till the seventy guys report. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. some want. to be right for us that's what the four three of the four people. i'm interested in the waters. should.

the office of public health conducts large studies of the health of american veterans however studies produce results that not support the office of public health policy they don't believe. this applies to data regarding adverse health consequences of environmental exposures. and afghanistan and toxics exposures in the gulf or on the rare occasions when embarrassing study results are really are manipulated to make them unintelligible so there seems to be going struggle between the truth seekers and the government when it to. sort of getting to the bottom of the exposure. how the fact that veterans are now experiencing. terrible

experience. or to get medical treatment. that they would have the best care and. it depends on who you get with the bureaucracy and for me what has been a nightmare to deal with getting. the labs for a thousand two thousand dollars for blood work. calling the. call in the lab the v.a. supposed to pay these bills and they don't. and you're already sick with chemo and

radiation also and all these bills are coming at you nobody is paying them. i mean i mean right now we're quarter million dollars in debt from cancer. bankrupt. and the v.a. still denies my claim but it's not this is not from exposures. the politicians the congressional people that sort of tell us unfortunate drop is like a hot potato swims we make senator. so we have no resolution right now the v.a. still denying our cases we have attorneys for sure you have anybody you know there are not going to see were jews were. you know just awful didn't make it to a lot. of time so i can make with a ten year golden rule the v.a. system itself means that about what for ten years or family it's no benefits that's why after ten years i don't get the benefits because or i think the v.a. should take more. be more responsible with these guys because they have already put

their lives on the line for us why would we. not give them the proper medical attention that they need why give them an appointment three months out and then. send it you know prolong it even more to maybe eight months nine months a year and then even fighting for their benefits if they don't. then book person twelve months of them coming back and he doesn't get a diagnosis forget it they're screwed because they don't see it act it's service related service connected the burden of proof is on the veteran they have to be able to service connected it doesn't matter whether you have it or not or the condition can happen during the day you enter to the left that's the big window that you have to fight me. iraq afghanistan war injury is our generation's

agent orange. if you look at the historical precedents with agent orange for decades it was not acknowledged and then after and decades it was studied and then finally soldiers were treated. so to goes with iraq afghanistan war longing for we can't wait that long poor the burn pits to reckon that it's not the pay's that the guys are in the females are dying from the it's a lot faster the illnesses are showing up in the sentence a lot sooner he put in his time he sacrificed. and gave everything that it was possible to get. and. and more proud of that and we don't regret that and he doesn't regret that and we would serve again our sons have enlisted so it's not the service that's the problem and then

things happen in war and we understand that there's a cost and and we will carry with that because there are some things that are worth the cost but the other side of that is that at the end of it they take care of you and every single time there's a war we do this song and dance with the government where they say no no it wasn't us no it wasn't that it's just you it's you know i don't know what it was it's just the look and it's not every single time and when is it the last time when is it that they just say ok. this was it and you did your part. when does that time come where you're not fighting afterwards the fight should be done i don't see no way at this because with the agent or. the vietnam

veteran still suffering still fighting to be recognized on top of that gulf war veterans fighting to be recognized now you're adding another million or so iraq and afghanistan veterans fighting to be recognized that's two generations at least of the men and women who are sick. and they have overwhelmed a v.a. system that was not prepared to handle that to compensate every. soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about their exposure illnesses from exposure from the burn pits we would bring would be literally soon to be broke and. they don't want to pay it so. the way to the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time. and they won't have to pay and. all grow

up and. get the middle finger. the movie is to model is. delayed and i hope. the veterans that i speak to are both mad and they're be welder some of them are so sick that they don't know if they wake up in the morning and i'm not exaggerating every year is something every year is something that's taken away from the quality of life that he has and that we have as a family. near. union. in that i would can just walk into a restaurant and stand down and he will have a meal. he's sitting there he's trying to.

keep himself. on his own. for. the simple things that. we take for granted. that. our heart. wants. what we're. going to be like hold. it like to think. but. optimistic guy i think.

i mean maybe i'm getting. nothing. right now it's too much take care of my husband take care of every other. woman's husband and. man's wife who served who did their duty because they believed in it because they believed that it was the right thing to do. that's all we're asking. there's absolutely a moral obligation to fix it when the veterans come home and they're sick no matter what they're sick we have an obligation as the american public to take care of these men and women who sacrificed. for us. i hope. this will have. a jump on. listen really story.

aggressively treating the soldiers at the v.a. and but i don't see this ending well at all. they all come as is going to be gloom and doom. and you can't do it so i. can. hear everything i can for. you no wonder. you. ricky your fight is going to continue on and. we're going to. take what you have. and what you bought for. her to

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