the interview. he's seen as the disaster. is who are we doing. home number. of units one for. do you do this work for home for these hundreds of millions of dollars you see you know the. 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 injuries 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 you know if the regulations didn't do so and as

a result they're sick of all the contracts that k.b.r. unhealed or 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 toxins in a way that directly impacted the health of soviet troops. seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products this is a do not burn truck tires all types of styrofoam and polystyrene and batteries trucks quite a bit of different stuff. that should have been segregated and 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 did 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 what a lot of these k.b.r. contractors were doing. for me to accept is. working for k.b.r. and they have knowledge of. hazardous chemicals on the ground and cause cancer. here and i'll. just put in my family and i had their prius that is unnecessary. i'm. very upset over that. today very very upset.

that i should be ashamed. 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 a lot of singing of the management personnel in directing the actual work force work kellogg brown and root personnel. i've seen time and time again cave 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 . other than the right way. when i noted the violations infractions and

improper actions on run a rude supported him to management road towards and i was basically told shut up they would make the decisions about them as decisions. the case or recalling a bird in 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 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 g.a.o. also found that many of these bearcats 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 layoffs. 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 to burn pits was much cheaper of them to do to put high temperature incinerators cost would have been national and there are. many veterans i've spoke to phone. that k.b.r.

was merely cutting corners. to save money my understanding is they were given the money to do the incinerators 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 that 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 a cross. easy he. he. he he. he. and i come to find out that

blog where i was for about six months was built on a chemical weapons manufacturing storage facility that we bomb a lot of during the war and then we went to build a base there with my understanding to debunk it in with a new grand samples is 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 operated it was actually told to me by a former k.b.r. employee that they knew the ground was hot meaning 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 it as. as 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 or as often suggested that in trying to wrap themselves in the 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 can invent prevent it and in part because they can here's incinerators. someone for offline if they were just found out. in it i mean if they would have realized. and we did in the fog of war we've got to fix this in the took action to fix it.

this extends good he didn't. lie. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all that wasn't good then an indemnity folks so if they screw anything up they don't have to pay for the bill gets stuck on the american taxpayer there will be an indemnification even for negligence on a reasonable way as your managers agents of whores if they fall within the definition of what is covered even if they caused the injury or death to us. but i never provided of those quotes that is correct even if they cause injury to civilian employees. under the provisions of a cause that's correct even if they cause injury or death to american soldiers. does not and does not carve out an exception for civilian with our soldiers which means that means that if in fact. yeah activities fall within the definition of

a cause think k.b.r. could could apply for reimbursement but it's rare even for death or injury to the american soldier that's correct even for the death or injury to report a service will. of course even death or injury to iraqi national or other world national work in order to 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 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 you know how much our government really cares about our soldiers are just pawns. they're angry they're frustrated they feel as though they gave.

everything they had to the u.s. government they believed doubtful sam had their back when they sent them over to iraq and afghanistan to fight the war they believe when they came back to be taken care of. the military the v.a. or 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 on doing this and not only on the firm 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 that studies have been either augmented belated have been prone to bias in favor of. results that might err to earth. that's having psychosomatic problems instead of physical

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corporations run washington washington. over voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. the office of public health conducts large studies of the health of american veterans however if this study 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 toxics exposures in the gulf or 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 how the fact that veterans are now experiencing. the hopeful terrible experience are. coming from the plane itself to the v.a. to. either compensated or to get medical treatment. is going to home. there no matter what the sunni. most of their employees are angry and surely. they don't want to know why going there i always thought that they were doing the best care and reality. down found me it depends on who you get is who provide you with 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. calling the v.a. tell them i'm keep getting these bills call in the lab the v.a. supposed to pay these bills and they don't in you're already sick with chemo and rate. also that all these bills are coming at you nobody is paying them. i mean it's awful i mean right now we're quarter million dollars in debt from cancer cost more bankrupt. and the v.a. still denies my claim but it's not on this not from exposures. the politicians the congressional people that we sought to help us unfortunate drop us like a hot potato since we made senator. so we have no resolution right now the v.a. still denying our cases we have attorneys for sure you have the money there we're going to see we're just were we are are you know just hopefully we'll make it to

a long enough time to us i can make with a ten year golden rule on the v.a. system itself to me and said it about for ten years or for me it's no benefits that's why after ten years i don't get the benefits that they deserve 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 through 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 at its 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 did it happen during the day you enter to the left that's the big window that you have to fight. iraq afghans. 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 where longing for we can't wait that long poor the burn pits to reckon it's not the pay's that the guys are in the females are dying from the burn pits i'm often asked the illnesses are showing up in the sentence i'll do 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 a 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 is was it and you did your part let us do ours what 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 so. offering 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 bring literally some 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 anything. all grow up and. get the middle finger. the vs new model is. delayed and i hope he does. the veterans that i speak to are both mad and they're bewildered 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 something new every year is something that's taken away from the quality of life that he has and that we have as a family. the new union. in

that i would can just walk into a restaurant and sit down and he will have a meal. we can see. being there just trying to. keep him sound busy on his own. comfortable for. the simple things that. we take for granted. that he doesn't have. our heart. what. what would what is that it took are nothing like what does that hold. it's just going to get worse. i'd like to think the future is bright. but that's my optimistic

guy trying to i think all change when myself because if i read about the disease that i. saw i don't know i mean maybe i get a vertical with god heals me and my wife is wonderful and she and i try for more if nothing is ever let up in. bed right now it's too much take care of my husband take care of every other. woman's has friend 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 these 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 sacrifice themselves for us i. i hope that. 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. they all come as is going to be gloom and doom. which can't be easy i'm. cheech can be you can or can't you don't wonder. you. can't.

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