awesome advertising telling you on the cool enough and let's go buy their products listen. to all the hawks that we along with our audience will watch the league. act had. a clip of glee state that the abuse related to contracts awarded to k.b.r. represents the most blatant and improper contract of abuse i have witnessed during the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how 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 till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price

he made about a billion dollars off the war there's a great future. on defending the woman is no longer about. the american enterprise institute he says you would be a disaster in the fashion these things. are we do know a. good home number. of units one for the method. to his work for home over the nation hundreds of millions of dollars. 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 they believe service connected health insurance 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 o.t. regulations to do so and as a result they are sick. 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 comply 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 this do not truck tires all types of styrofoam 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 burning 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 to cause cancer. here and i'll. just put in my family and i had. it 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 a position to make those practices you know change to halt very little government oversight on the level of so you know the management personnel in directly the actual work force work 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 improper actions. to route reported him to management road ports and i was basically told shut up they would make the decisions about the management decisions. the case or rick lambert and what k.b.r. tried to do with him when he tried to expose what was going on and revealed 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 g.a.o. reports that have come out since you know wait two thousand and 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 for the veterans but. the g.a.o. reports g.a.o. also found that many of these. were still operating as late as through thirteen and this is at least two years after. they were told to shut that. 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 burn pits was much cheaper of them to do to put high temperature and sideris cost

would have been. many better as 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 it 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 have documented the misconduct there's been hundreds of decorations sworn statements by former employees military officers documenting how the operation of the burn pits was exposing troops to 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 the story. and then we went to build a base there with my understanding. with new grand samples as 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 the. meaning it was contaminated.

flabbergasted. 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 safer. themselves and all this is about. how to dispose of. waste. the problem with that argument that i've seen is that in most cases in fact across the board. making decisions. that i believe all the. generators. offline if they were to found out. in i mean if they would have realized.

what we did. we've 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 than an indemnity folks so 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 unreasonable acts by kavi or managers agents of course if they fell within the definition of what is covered even if they caused the injury or death to these. 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 that's occurring even if they cause injury or death to the 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 in service of them. that's correct even death or injury to an iraqi national or other for moral 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 a government contractor that's been documented so for. 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 fire straighted they feel as though they gave. everything they have to the us government. they believed to have 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 biased in favor of. results that my error or that's having psychosomatic problems instead of physical problems. but also. to the ship. it was suggested. and a fairly strong one there were two thousand. in the study it's a very extensive study done by a well respected scientist. do chemicals that the advertising. really increase the risk of cancer and i chose a means of known to use them in the launch of tests is it a she had skepticism they do not believe that's that this is is true by independent scientists. and stations from

my time as well as you know others why is that in the meta hobby definitely do like what we've been doing and if you want to learn more you'll get. the flood. is a big business against health. as a start to show. that. seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days comes to educate and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

what politicians do. you put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go to the press was a white woman for three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. question. the office of public health conducts large studies of the health of american veterans however if this studies produce results that do not support the office of public health and 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 taught six exposures in the gulf war on the rare

occasions when embarrassing study results are released data are manipulated to make them unintelligible so 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 health a fact that veterans are now experiencing. a bit of a hopeful terrible experience with. funding for the plane itself to the v.a. so to to get you there compensated or to get medical treatment. is going to home. they. are not there to help you no matter what the sunni. most of their employees are angry and surely.

they don't like them i don't like going there i always bother to. what is the best care and the reality is totally different. down on that i mean it depends on who you get is it provides that the bureaucracy. for me is what has been a nightmare to deal with getting bills from the lab for a thousand two thousand dollars for blood work and staff call in the v.a. tell them i'm keep getting these bills call in the lab company telling 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 right now or a quarter million dollars in debt from cancer cost more bankrupt. and the v.a. still denies my claim that it's not this is not from exposures. the politicians the congressional people that we saw tell us unfortunate drop is like

a hot potato since we make senator. so we have no resolution right now the v.a. still denying or cases we have attorneys for sure you don't have any money there are no contumacy were just were we are we are you know just hopefully we'll make it till another time to pass i can make with a ten year golden rule the v.a. system itself means that the best way for ten years or family gets no benefits after ten years i don't get the benefits that they deserve i think the v.a. should take more. be more responsible for 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. 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 they're coming back and he doesn't get out. 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 better 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 for. 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 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 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. and gave everything that it was possible to get 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 the 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 was

enough. 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 see ok. this was it and you did your part. when does that time come where you're not fighting afterwards the fate should be done i see no way at this because with the agent orange 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 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 you know time. and they won't have to pay union. hall grow up and. get the middle finger. the new model is. delayed and. the veterans that i speak to are both bad and they're be 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 new every year is

something that's taken away. that he has and that we have as a family. there he's trying to. keep himself. and his home. the. things that. we take for granted. that. our heart.

hold. but. optimistic i try and i think. i mean maybe. nothing will happen. but right now it's tough to 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 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 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. the outcome is is going to be gloom and doom. you can't be.

here everything you can't. be so wonderful. ricky your fight is going to continue on. and 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.

well you go should we give you an order your sister's number so i know what marianne one million people died and died. killed people in the beach even danger you. know no one's come to worry too much you everybody's rounded up and upset.

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