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KBR Supplied Water Makes US Troops Sick

Posted by Paddy , Cliff Schecter's Blog at 6:13 AM on March 10, 2008.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.

A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq.

The Pentagon's inspector general found water quality problems between March 2004 and February 2006 at three sites run by contractor KBR Inc., and between January 2004 and December 2006 at two military-operated locations.

It was impossible to link the dirty water definitively to all the illnesses, according to the report. But it said KBR's water quality "was not maintained in accordance with field water sanitary standards" and the military-run sites "were not performing all required quality control tests."

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Paddy is a regular contributor to Cliff Schecter.com.


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And yet....
Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Mar 10, 2008 6:37 AM   
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They will continue to get more contracts.

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They don't pay taxes either
Posted by: CJC on Mar 10, 2008 7:38 AM   
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Free enterprise. Free of responsibility, free of ethics, free of accountability.
What's the issue with a few sick soldiers when the investors are raking it in?

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» RE: They don't pay taxes either Posted by: Strategizer
Why are those responsible not in jail and their companies
Posted by: thekidde on Mar 10, 2008 8:12 AM   
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paying reparations to the American taxpayers? Were I still in the Army, I would be tempted to shoot the shit out of someone supplying me and my troops with this crap.

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I think the biggest fear the US regime has right now
Posted by: bryanth798 on Mar 10, 2008 10:49 AM   
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is mutiny.

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100 years ago...
Posted by: manderson on Mar 10, 2008 11:17 AM   
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...in the Spanish-American War (President McKinley, the Corporatist's choice for the turn of THAT century), more troops died from tainted canned meat from U.S. meat packers than from Spanish bullets. Also, don't forget the diet soda crisis....we're shipping the troops Diet Pepsi and other stuff containing Aspartame, which has been scientifically proven to break down under heat and light exposure into Formaldehyde and Formic Acid, causing various maladies including cancer. The stuff sits outside in the 100 degree heat over there. Have we really erased 100 years of progress in 8? So it seems. As Firesign Theatre once put it: "Where there's smoke, there's WORK!"

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