for her mission. 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. veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their what they believe service connected health injuries say that k.b.r. short sighted didn't install and center raters when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it was a against the o.t. regulations to do so and as a result they're sick of all the contracts that k.b.r. unhealed received 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 toxins in a way that directly impacted the health of soviet troops. seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam and polystyrene batteries trucks quite a bit of different 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 burned tires and anything else. 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 my family and i had a prius that is necessary. i'm. very upset over that. today very very upset. that they did that. the military exercises 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 in position to make those practices you know change to halt very little government oversight on the love scene of the major personnel in directing the actual work force were kellogg brown and 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 was they were allegedly being told to do something or working under the military supervision my experience has been and what i've seen in sworn testimony is that too often k.b.r. 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 i improper actions. to root for them to management. torts and i was basically told shut up that they would make the. decisions about

them as decisions. the case are recurring burden what could be or try 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 know way 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 service 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 toxins and so that means that any military personnel soldiers and others that are in the area aren't going to be exposed to toxic chemicals toxic fumes that kind of thing to operate the burn pits was much cheaper of them to do to put in high temperature and sewers cost would have been national and there are. many veterans i've spoke to believe that k.b.r. was merely cutting corners. to save money my understanding is they were given the money to do the incinerator 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. so far in addition to the. inspector general investigations that documented the misconduct. by. the. easy. easy. come to find out. i was for about six months was built on a chemical. manufacturing. 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. these bases used to be former chemical weapons facilities. it was actually told to me. they knew that. i want to talk about these claims that are being served by planners lawyers who 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 safe for. themselves and. military and

so all this is about is second guessing military decisions about how to dispose of . waste where dispose 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 were derelict they know what i believe in all these illnesses and then prevented it in part because they couldn't use the incinerators most of which were offline if they were just found out. in i mean if they would have realized. and we did in the fog of war we got to fix the mess in the took action to fix it. he didn't. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all that wasn't good then an indemnity folks so if the screw anything up they don't have to pay for the bill get stuck on the american taxpayer there would

be an indemnification even for negligence on a reasonable way as your managers agents are bores if they fell within the definition of what is covered even if they caused the injury or death to these. other purveyors of those clause that is correct even if they cause injury or death to civilian employees. under the provisions of the cause of her even if they cause injury or death to the american soldier. 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 a clause thing k.b.r. could could apply for reimbursement preferable even for death or injury to the american soldier that's correct even for the death or injury to a british servicemen. that's correct even. the road to iraqi national or

other world that will work in order to roger. 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 a government contractor that's been documented so far. the indemnification is is absolutely criminal if we have over one hundred thousand soldiers ill it just shows it's a good example of. how much our government really cares about our soldiers are just pawns. they're angry they're far straighted they feel as though they gave. everything they had to the us government they believed down till 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 here and a good transition in the military and the military and v.a. has failed miserably on doing this and not only want to put issues 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 been either manipulated have been prone to bias in favor of. results that my error or that's having psychosomatic problems instead of physical problems.

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morning and one million people died and i. killed people maybe even date you. know no one's going to wait a few bodies randomly and that's. the office of public health conducts large studies of the health of american veterans however it just a studies produce results that did not support the office of public counsel written policy they don't release them this applies to data regarding adverse health

consequences of environmental exposures such as burn pits in iraq and afghanistan and toxics exposures in the goals or on the rare occasions when embarrassing study results are released belated to make them unintelligible so there there seems to be an ongoing struggle between the truth seekers and the government when it comes to. sort of getting to the bottom of the exposure and how the fact that veterans are now experiencing. pleasure is sure going to be a bit of a hopeful terrible experience for. the for the plane itself to the south to get it either compensated ordered. get medical treatment. is going to home. they. are not there to help you matter what they say. most of their

employees are angry and surly and nasty. told me i don't like going there i always thought that they would be the best care and their realities top of it after. down found a me it depends on who you get is a provider but the bureaucracy at the v.a. for me is what has been a nightmare to deal with getting bills from the labs for a thousand two thousand dollars for blood work and staff call in the v.a. tell them i'm cheap get nice bills call in the lab company tell them the v.a. supposed to pay these bills and they don't and you're already sick with chemo and radiation all sudden all these bills are coming at you nobody is paying them. i mean it's awful i mean that right now or quarter million dollars in debt from cancer. or bankrupt. and the v.a. still denies my claim that it's not all of this not from exposures. the

politicians the congressional people that we saw tell us unforeseen drop us like a hot potato since we made sen. so we have no resolution right now the v.a. still denying our cases we have attorneys for sure we don't have any money to pay you know they're working on continuously urges were we are we are you know i'm just hopeful that we'll make it till. the time to pass so i can make what they call a ten year golden rule on the v.a. system itself means that it about for ten years my family gets no benefits if i pass away after ten years i don't get the benefits because or i think of the a should take more. be more responsible for these guys because they have already put their lives on the line for us or. 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 prolonged it even more to maybe. my 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 out diagnosis forget it they're screwed because they don't see it at it's service related service connected the burden of proof is on the matter 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. 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 decades it was studied and then finally soldiers were treated.

so it still goes with the iraq afghanistan war long and we can't wait that long poor the burn pits to recognize not the pay's that the guys are in the females are dying from the burn pits it's a lot faster the illnesses are showing up in the sometimes a lot sooner he put in his time he sacrificed he. gave everything that it was possible to get and. a little 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 things happen in war and we understand. that there is a post 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 some do you know 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 orange the vietnam veteran still suffering still fighting to be recognized the 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 prepare 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 bring literally send a v.a. broke and. they don't want to pay it so. the way to the decades a lot of those soldiers will die. and they won't have to pay union. hall grow up and. get the middle finger. to lose. the veterans that i speak to are all for that and they're the welder some of them

are so sick that they don't know if they're wake up in the morning and i'm not exaggerating every year is something. something that's taken away from the quality of life that he has and that we have as a family. unit. in that i would can just walk into a restaurant down and he will have a meal. because he's sitting there he's trying to. keep him sound busy on his own. phone call to. the simple things that. we take for granted. that he doesn't have.

our heart. what. what would what is our future going to be lead what does that hold. it's just going to get worse. i'd like to think the future blight. but that's my optimistic guy trying to i think all change one myself because if i read about disease that i . saw i don't i mean maybe i get in the cold dark you'll see me in my wife in some wonderful unless you're in a truck on the way nothing jail. right now it's to take care of my husband take care of every other. woman's has been and.

man's wife who served who did their duty because they believed in it because they believe that it was the right thing to do. that's all we're asking. there's absolutely a moral obligation to fix it when these veterans come home and they're saying no matter what their sect problem we have an obligation as the american public to take care of these men and women who are sacrifice themselves for us i. i hope. this will have an ending where they jump on this and really story. aggressively treating the soldiers at the v.a. and but i don't see this ending well at all. as it's going to be. do. you think he's going to.

get everything you can for him. so when the. fight is going to continue on. we're going to. take what you have. and what you have been bought for. to the president of the united states. so that it helps other.

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