tv Documentary RT November 12, 2017 1:30pm-2:00pm EST
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led. at the start of the war in afghanistan. the military commanders on the ground realized that they had a big problem with the trash that was accumulating from the war each soldier was accumulating approximately nine pounds of trash a day on a battlefield they don't know what to do with it so they came up with the idea through centcom which is central command decided to create burn pits to burn the trash that was being accumulated. over that is as were the military during the war collected all their waste in one central location and so they're burying that they decided to burn it and they burn everything in that because we think of what it takes to be a parent. moon. moon
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. while we would burn less human waste. trash. plastics medical. supplies. and to name. anything that they wouldn't use anymore they would burn. at times they also. provided pipes. plastics chemicals paint batteries tires literally anything that could be disposed of was thrown in there. and it we were dumped these. days a few. and then light it up.
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there was a blue smoke and the he's looked like the san francisco for the smell was extremely toxic very very putrid it burn your eyes burn your throat burn your nose i mean it was just you. dirty stinky. some days the. concoction of the smell of the burn ph and the sewage pit would literally make you would drop you to your knees and you'd vomit i mean it was it was that bad you knew. there was no protection no man. in. and not. ok to give them a gas mask but i wasn't. here. and i knew. there was more for nuclear biological chemical.
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i was never mandatory for us to learn that. no safeguards were in place to protect the soldiers dog as a matter of fact they they would build the seas burn pits sometimes within three hundred meters from from where the soldiers were were actually quartered behaves in the smoke drifted over to our trailers where it just kind of hung all day all the time twenty four seven right about it always smell the. plastic bird bird buildings or the wood you know the trails. for me. is just really an offensive putrid kind of a smell it's very hard to describe because when it was mixed with the smell of the sewage be as it was just news just got awful your nose would burn your eyes would water your throat would burn during the course of the day you would you have to go
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and dust yourself off your hair your clothing with all the ashes that were falling on us. now we never complained. they say embrace the suck man. because to the work area we had initial briefing with are superior and we were told to keep an eye on are people that you're going to get for they call the iraqi crowd everybody gets sick for the first couple of weeks atrocious and but not now without a doubt within a week people were falling out getting sick i really don't remember anybody questioning at that time. the health effects that it would have me absolutely when thinking about their i don't think they got it all control the war here you know certainly our own people wouldn't be doing anything knowingly to poising us but that turns out to be you know. not the case. these personnel would be
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exposed to a toxic soup of chemicals released into the atmosphere plastics and styrofoam metals chemicals from paints and solvents petroleum and lubricants jet fuel enaam exploded ordinance medical and other dangerous waste. here men are supposed to breathe clean air air is twenty one percent oxygen and seventy nine percent nitrogen with no air pollution are particles in the air and in particle air can trigger asthma and when you particles in an open air setting at low temperature low heat it generates thousands times more particles than using a. burning particles particularly for burning carcinogens exposed as a person when they need it and hail it sniff it get it on their skin and they get exposed to carcinogens which can cause cancer so burning with j.p.
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eight which is jet fuel low temperature will be says benzene which is a carcinogen. i find it amazing that the military having a regulation for everything you didn't have any regulation in place for permit operations and those burn pits that were created in iraq and afghanistan whimpers from two thousand to two thousand and nine burning without any regulation at all didn't have regulation where they would be built how they would be constructed they didn't do any soil samples before they built the berm pits they didn't do any plume samples after the burn pits were operational for many many years. after nine eleven i think karen just wanted to keep on funding that i found because they they had they won and they mattered and i. wanted to fight the war even now in here we can burn stereophile we can burn certain things in open air so why
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weren't they allowed. when the soldiers to do it personally within three days i could feel it like something was wrong and it hit me real hard i went to search. for medication. and i bought it and for me it just wouldn't go away within fifteen days that i was there was even sicker i was pretty sick the whole deployment and when it came down it could be returned back to the states i knew different and the something was wrong. and that became the oh pill battle of trying to figure out what was wrong and how bad it was going to be i started developing sinus problems me you know a lot of other guys me to get nasal sprays and stuff to try to alleviate that and i just had constant sinus problems veterans were coming home they had stories to tell they came home they're experiencing all these health conditions they didn't know why these presumably very healthy men and women all of
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a sudden were walking around like old men and women not being able to run exercise the way they could so they started writing about it. every day for the united states military it says open the iraq exposed thousands of troops to toxic chemicals a mysterious illness is affecting veterans who were exposed to open burn pits which the u.s. military used in iraq and afghanistan to torch everything from batteries to body parts experts say the pouring out of these pits are toxic and dangerous so while troops may survive the battle they may also be poisoned. in september two thousand and four. i notice that the v.a. clinic instead of seeing old caucasian men with meal chairs and oxygen who are in their eighty's. the entire composition of the waiting room changed. full of young
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women and men of all ethnicities and they're all in their twenty's back from their first year long deployment in iraq. the typical service member came in with an inability to complete a two mile run within regulation time. most of them had already had a. traditional work up for pulmonary disease including x. rays c.t. scans primary function testing all of these studies returned normal or near normal in almost every case. it was subtle because these service members complained of shortness of breath with exertion but their x. rays and pull me function tests indicated that they shouldn't have any disability itll that doctors are throwing up their hands and saying what would cause a twenty seven year all man to have the lung tissue without a long charities or
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a respiratory condition eighty five year old man and they started pointing to their exposure to these burnt heads in the fail to realize a lot of these guys gals had been living around these pits for for their entire tour duty. can cough would go forward and then when you start bringing no different colors some control. and general body weakness to just trial bad bad and good no for their head to be some explanation that led us to begin doing surgical long biopsies to look for things that you might miss in conventional testing.
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i think. the old situations are coming out of the stand. and the russia is they are not in favor of the nato is coming. to the border for the show but of the other side of think if they came back the old impression of confrontation that's a mistake of the west especially by the americans also on the other side. prescribe medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything was ashes my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit suicide what or who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what
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the doctor supposed to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects why he. was chemically altered what i did was done on a cocktail of lethal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's same. one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence is not an understatement to say the russian revolution or falsity coup d'etat was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russian. they all. seem to. help. solve. solutions all the proof.
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where he found these tiny little holes these tears and their long tissue he saw nothing of these veterans to come to his own conclusion that they could have only got this from a toxic exposure. to produce his career looking for this problem and he was able to discover it. and the diagnosis was constrictor prophylactics in english it's a small area where his disease so the lining of your loans are destroyed if you have a perfectly healthy young soldier. goes over to iraq and afghanistan because bad with construction broadway this that's really a big concern are were clearly implicated. in increased incidence of lung disease associated with deployment. video indeed decided they were going to send any more veterans his way anymore. i think dr mueller's research in
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his study is a perfect example of. trying to avoid the issue and trying trying not to have to pay the compensations to veterans. that they deserve he has the proof he has everything they are and they still will not even address this research. there were many people in the department of defense that couldn't accept these findings in you could speculate that they couldn't expect be that they couldn't accept these findings because of the potential broad implicate. the idea that maybe there was a new asian orange. this deployment the government is looking down the road at billions of dollars in health care costs that they will be responsible for and i believe that they're doing everything they can to fav that off.
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the comments of the virus that's are causing ls along the soldiers this is a new disease we call this iraq afghanistan war long injury some of the more severe cases entail not all the positives of the long so and his aim while they factorial exposure to the symptoms or anywhere from from respiratory issues some mild to
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severe to rare forms of cancers leukemias it's a wide range of symptoms that people are experience and if you really look into it and do the research you can make these symptoms directly to the permits my diagnosis is one that started out as you know i had sinus plasma sayto much if you can say that in one word which is a four point four centimeter tumor right here in my head that started out as a solitary plasma site toma was biopsied and found to be that. will automatically flip down which to me tell you have a tumor in your head underneath your brain. you want to know. what's going on with that and i didn't know anything about this burn pit exposure thing or nothing until after my diagnosis. so the first thing i did was i ran to the internet and i started researching this particular issue and it kept coming back to the same thing
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what causes plasma psycho toxic exposure. when he first on got back i mean he was healthy he was out the it was probably not even less after. a year that he came back they started on the tonsils and got swollen pain. and he would delete and he would believe from his mouth. i would have chunks of tissue come out of his mind and he was spit it out and i believe elice two days a day after christmas when he was on told that he lists cancer it's. really really ill. discuss leo. was vomiting
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feces and everything else and that when they took out the gallbladder just to be safe when they went in there to remove the gall bladder they took a biopsy of the tumor that was blocking my lower bowel and then to be a little mccants but as you know beau biden vice president biden son served in the military and he served in iraq and he was imperfect health shortly after the count home within nine months he started getting sick he had a brain tumor. and he eventually died from the brain tumor the same type of brain tumor that many of the soldiers that are sick from the permits are complaining about same type of cancer there's a lot of. circumstantial evidence that points to you know his death may have been caused from the burn pits. look. good. but.
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it just didn't make sense it didn't make sense that my young healthy husband had cancer and then it turned out there were two types of cancer how was it not the burn pits is not a type of cancer for a young twenty seven year old guy to have because first he didn't smoke he never smoked he's not a drinker. usually that's the type of cancer that older gentleman who smoked for a long period of their lives should tobacco or drink the doctor he said it was chemical exposure. our troops are healthy or they don't go. in they're coming back in there not a lot more healthy anymore. it's a challenge but for other people it's it's been dan. it
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turns out the military knew all along that this toxic exposure could very well her the troops living by these burn pits lieutenant colonel curtis in two thousand and six had written a memo saying the pollution there was dangerous that that it would be causing health hazards to live and work near the pits that it was completely buried its own calm no one no one took it seriously deborah they never addressed is issues soldiers on the ground had no idea about colonel curtis has findings. and his concern us was never shared with anybody remember which is completely buried. they knew about this and they continue to free can do it. even they would you do that we'll willingly accept the real. being
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shot we've. taken prisoner. but nothing has signed up to. poison byrom people. there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between the burn pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from clearly the cat was out of the bag the two thousand and six memo had basically said that the military was aware that the pollution levels around the pits were at an unsafe unhealthy level now they deal with the after them and always told west attempted to downplay it they have their own study. commissioned in two thousand and eleven with the institutes of health and medicine that study had said that they could not find. a connection between the pollution levels around the pits and the health
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effects that the veterans were experiencing. those studies which were very in-depth did not identify an increased risk of respiratory symptoms or disease at locations with burn pits as opposed to no burn pits. the army did their own study and years later and it was it was completely flawed for several reasons one it only studied one burn pit out of two hundred seventy three that were located in iraq and afghanistan they didn't have prior plume samples because it was done done the whole study was a complete. fraud. as for snow. new york. you may not find snow in albany new york. but that does not mean that it does not snow in albany new york if you send out monitors when.
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you may not be attacked burning trash the monitors are too far away from the burning so you may not attack a part of if you don't put in a monitor until after the burning stopped you may not detect burning any common sense tells you there was a lot of bad in there. this is not. what you see. all around the globe. or true. the world's finest people building. the world the company. the waste management responsibilities were part of
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