Whats really messed up, is that I spent a year on this base and can attest to the nasty air and the dirty water. We(a couple of guys I hung out with on the base) took a home test kit to test the water and it failed the test. This was the purified water that we received from the water supply station on the edge of the base. We showered in this water, drank it when we ran out of bottled water, and cooked our food with it, all while breathing air that was tainted from the burn pit. Not only did we breath in all of the trash, but we breathed in all of the biological waste from the CSH (the Hospital) to include body parts that were burned. I just wonder now what kind of cancers I’m going to have and how long the VA will deny the claims like they have our older brothers and sister from Vietnam with their agent orange. Once are military men and women are used up, throw them away. WTF?

Awarding illegal no-bid contracts to companies already under investigation who further endanger those in uniform?

Cutting funding for body armor, education, health care for children, the elderly, and our returning troops, in order to give enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest people in the world?

Allowing millions of jobs to be sent overseas while Americans are losing their homes and health insurance?

Fostering wholesale pollution of our planet while handing over trillions of taxpayer dollars to executives whose ineptitude ran their own companies into bankruptcy?

My blood is boiling! I feel like my head is going to explode, and I can hardly keep from throwing up. What happened to America? How could we let this happen? All of it. It is beyond comprehension! The citizens of other countries of the world, whose media actually tells them the TRUTH are perfectly justified in considering us the worst example of civilized society in modern human history. If they collectively decided to rid the Earth of the vile plague that the USA has become, who could blame them? Fortunately for us they are, hopefully, not as morally and ethically bankrupt as we have become, so they simply shake their heads in disgust and disbelief and thank God that they are not us. Please, please, please let them have pity on us until, hopefully, a man of intelligence and integrity can assemble an administration with the will and desire to forge a government entity that has the resolve and determination to undo what we have allowed to be done.

At the end of 2001 we had a level of collective, global respect and support that had never been seen before, and probably never will be again. And then we stood by and watched it be pissed away, along with freedom, liberties, and security by the Devil and his puppet, for the sole purpose of enriching further those who already had anything and everything anyone could ever want, at the expense in life and livelihood of every honest, decent, compassionate human on the planet.

May God have mercy on us, but not those responsible. While there is surely a special place in Hell reserved for them, we owe it to everyone who has suffered on their behalf to ensure that justice is done, and they get a severe and incessant sampling of what awaits them, for the rest of their time on Earth! Sorry, but I’m more than a little fed up!

Or how about the electrical problems in the showers. Soldiers were electrocuted while taking showers. How about the soldiers whose boots were held together by duc tape because they were not furnished new boots when the old ones wore out. They were not delivered as promised by contractors. Or how about the times when food was not delivered and soldiers had to buy food to eat from Iraqi citizens. Or how about guarding empty contractors trucks. Contractors are paid to deliver goods by truck. When there were no goods to deliver the trucks went out anyway so they could charge the tax payers for the trip.

There have been so many stories about this over the years of this war. And finally some investigations are being done. Bush wanted no oversight. So nothing was done. Now that he is out of office, they are just beginning to start investigating. This is the tip of the iceberg.

This is just a snapshot of the morally bankrupt, reckless mentality that has come from our government and is yet another atrocity that perfectly reflects the Bush administration. The leader sets the tone and this is a perfect example of the careless and reckless disregard, disrespect and contemptuous conduct of the current leadership of the United States of America. It’s pure filth.

If American soldiers were responsible for their fellow soldiers this story would not have happened. Private contractors don’t give a shit about our soldiers and this is good example of how the leader sets the tone because its crystal clear that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and the Republican leadership didn’t give our troops a second thought. When Cheney convinced Bush into going along with him, I’m sure he added, “Our troops all enlisted in the military, it’s not like we’re making them go, for these guys war is a choice. Don’t forget the US has an all volunteer military. (wink, wink) They know what they are getting into, they want to fight.”

I’m getting worried that the Obama administration does not have the will to investigate and prosecute those responsible for corruption, torture, fraud and the deaths of innocent people. This has been a conspiracy and manipulation of our Constitution and laws have been broken. The conduct of this government will weaken our government and our country unless these people are held responsible for their crimes. That’s it.

We should let our elected officials know, it is not an option to vote for someone who does not have the will to hold these people accountable for their actions and pursue justice for this country.

Not even able to make a joke about it.

Think what tragedy could have occured if there had been oversight or at least token bids.

You know, when the military did things for itself instead of contracting out to private businesses, they didn’t have these sorts of problems. I think that it is high time we eliminate government contractors for the military and have our own troops do the jobs that overpaid KBR employees are screwing up.

I’m reminded of Gulf War I and it’s infamous ‘Syndrome’.
Will we see an Iraq War Syndrome too? If so it may be both more complicated and yet simpler then its predecessor.

If I recall the GW Syndrome roughly resulted from a combination of exposure to Depleted Uranium and all the vaccinations the soldiers were given, but I don’t remember any allegations of other contaminants concerning food and water.

In Iraq the Pentagon seemed to replace the GW vaccination regime with NCB suits, so no sickness resulted from those.
DU seems to be less of an issue but that may be because US troops have been less exposed as (perhaps) there was less enemy armor to fight against this time around ( DU is all about armor penetration).
It has been reported that radiation-exacerbated conditions are much higher in the Iraqi population than before the invasion and occupation, and as an obvious source of increased radiation would be from DU munitions used by aircraft, tanks and artillery fired into populated areas occupied by ‘insurgents’ whilst US troops ‘commute’ from the Green Zone to ‘contact’ zones, and back their exposure to DU contamination would presumably be less than that of the general population forced to live (and die) in the contaminated target areas.

Assuming all this to be the case, it would be ironic (?)
for the US military to have replaced one form of sickening contamination with another with the latter and present form being entirely predictable avoidable whereas the former was largely unpredictable.

If there is to be an ‘Iraq War Syndrome’ it could be ’sourced’ to a combination of PTSD (from multiple unproductive tours), existing mental/physical conditions ( from the lowering of recruitment/re-enlistment/re-deployment standards) and the local environment. I imagine these variables would thus allow the military authorities to easily claim the ‘real’ cause of a soldier’s subsequent health problems as unique and out of their control–as DoD already has done.

Indeed it might be that the DoD itself that will label any and all claims as ‘Iraq War Syndrome’ precisely so they can shoot each one down as being too complex to assign specific cause and thus specific liability for a given condition–thus absolving them of any responsibility beyond the immediate consequences of an obvious physical wound—which incidentally the Dod has just recently redefined as deserving of recognition and post-combat medical support ONLY if the soldier is injured by DIRECT FIRE.

In other words if for an example an IED blows-up your Humvee and you get crushed and burned in the wreckage, instead of simply being shot in the ass with a 7.62 mm bullet the Army will pay for an inflatable ass-cushion whilst you recover, but not for physiotherapy and skin grafts because an IED is not direct fire and thus not ‘combat related’.

Given that new standard of liability and responsibility towards injury in an ATTACK the chances of a solider being able to claim against the Pentagon to pay for a colonoscopy as a result of drinking contaminated water provided by KBR will be nil.